How to Draw Your Own D&D Town Map!
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- Want to create your own fantasy village or town map? I've got a simple process to make creating and drawing an awesome starter town super easy!
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I'm obviously a long time late on this video but I was amazed at how "professional" those 2 little shades made this map look.
Suggestion: once you've inked the map, scan it in to the computer. That way you can print it out and colour the printed version so you don't mess up the original. Then, if you make a mistake, you can just reprint the map and re-colour.
Tarakona Tohu is a small traditional fruit farm that has been tended by the Stanier family for nearly 390 years. The 122 acre orchard is set in the south eastern corner of the rolling Herefordshire countryside, near Ledbury, close to the Malvern Hills.
Serpent Orchard, Apple Valley, Orchard Valley, Dragon Orchard, Appleburg.
@Ali Leonidas thats epic
amazing work....asking for next map....a church, a bell tower, a wizard's tower, maybe a whole tutorial on how to do individual buildings and make them stand out?
Thanks for the great content, that you are making. This hand-draw maps, get me back nice memories, when I was younger and tried to program a rpg games. Based on the gothic world, I have draw a lot of maps, plans, stories, characters. Never finished it, ended up in dreams, mostly because of over scope of those projects, but this video reminds me a lot.
Town name possiblity: Pyrus Malus or Pyrumalis.
Loved this video and how you went through the thought process as well as the drawing process.
You and Map Crow need to work together. You're both talented and incredibly imaginative. Beautiful work, as always.
I'm a big fan of Kyle's :)
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Serpentine Grove, Fort Sunther (keeping the name of when it was a military fort/town), Dotan Riverfront, Delicious Ruby (or some sort of red jewel that signifies the apples, and since it's a dragon protecting them), that's all I can think of haha. Words like Orchard, Old, Fort, Valley, River, Hill, and Treasure kept popping in my head
SkaterChan Dang those are really good I was going to try and come up with one but if he picked a comment it would probably be yours!
@@oiai2062 thanks jack :)
At first I thought a dragon eating apples was kind of, well odd. Then I remembered the apatosaurus, the largest animal ever which was a herbivore. Kudos for you for thinking outside the box. I think on some level of also makes your new town kid friendly, which is great for dads who want to teach their kids d&d.
I think it would be fun to name the town something to do with the name of the apples, If you've got a name for the apples already. If not I'd suggest something like Starbite Apples and then you could have some cool folklore surrounding the grove popping up after a fallen star crashed nearby and that being where the apples came from. Then you could call the town something like Starfaln or something. This was a fun little train of thought, I hope you get a kick out of reading this at the very least!
Edit: The star could have fallen in like the river and changed the water in the area and made the apples grow with a cool colouring and maybe some fun magic properties! Okay I need to stop I'm having far too much fun building this up and it's not even my Town!
Love it! That is literally the story of my homebrew city called Port Vela
There's a town on the Queensland border (the state in Australia in which I live) that has apples as it's primary industry. The town is called Applethorpe.
Brilliant Fantasy Story ❤
Cool Dragon Name + stead(place) or halden(hillside) or wald(forrest) or ach(river) or just google "German Toponymy" and look at the suffixes.
Arthakstead, Lurhalden, Bayathwald, Naxumach
Great town map, the only thing missing was a Cider Mill, if you have the best apples in the world you need to make some Apple Cider. Would also be a potential trade commodity.
Love your tutorials, really are informative.
It's right there on the river ;)
to come up with a town name randomly choose words from other languages and mix them together. the languages can either D&D based languages or real life languages. you can also chop up words and rearrange them to create new names.
assigning numbers to word, languages, and syllables, and rolling a dice is a great way to create something interesting and unique for an adventure
Great video and great Intro! A name I have for the town could be: Drakenvoss. It roughly translates from Icelandic to mean Dragon's waterfall. Perhaps the town is near this massive waterfall from the mountains where the dragon keeps his true lair and hoard.
In Dutch is would mean Dragon Fox (voss -> vos = fox)
Drekafoss would be the correct translation - although Drakenvoss sounds great!
Dragonsapple, Dracopomme, Fruitville, Applewyrm, Springblossom, Dragon's Larder, Windlord's Keep
I just love your videos about drawing maps! You're a inspiration to me to improving my future games, i hope more people see what you are doing. Oh, for town's name, how about Edens garden...?
School of magic, Fire House, Hospital,, Adventure Guild buildings
found this so late but man have these videos helped advance my maps
Best time of the day is when I see Jp has uploaded a video
Just love your excitement and positivity!
If you just curious about how to draw skip into 5:08
Names for town: Granny Smites, Red Draglicious, McIntalon, Golden Draglicious, Braeburning, and Fang Fruit (not an apple pun but I like)
Reodfalls, Winterfrost, Sedroct, Demlok, Haedtrok, Seqwastt, Orund, Hestorm, and Astrogonim are names for towns or cities I came up with.
Love the story you built behind the map, about the dragon that for treasure and gold keep secure the town 😁 very inspiring
My own Fantasy town maps would be for a 2d Web Film called Dragon Worship. Thanks for this video BTW
Great video, I don’t play D&D, I just love drawing maps.
I just started playing D&D and it’s amazing!
Yessss!!!!
a dragon greedy for apples... what a wonderful concept...
So glad I found your channel! I've been looking for tips for RPG map drawings.
Muffins! The dragon wants muffins. When I was a kid there was a book called _The Muffin Dragon_, IIRC. The dragon initially extorted the baker for all the muffins. After the baker went broke, then the dragon worked out a deal where it provided heat for the ovens.
As an adult, it seemed like an underwear gnomes situation, but as a kid I loved it.
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It IS really cool. I like how it’s simply elegant and accessible. Thanks
Always love having new ways to make town maps!
This one is pure gold! Never smashed a subscribe button that fast.
Here's a list of words that gets me thinking about a riverside town that grows apples.
Red, Scarlett, Crimson, Ruby, Vermillion
Ford, Stream, River, Bank, Crossing, Brook, Creek
Orchard, Garden, Grove, Yard
Apple, fruit
Town, burg, ville, ton
Somehow I like Ruby Grove and Rubyford best followed by Crimson Creek. The Ruby names evoke the value of the apples for the townsfolk, it could also recall the color of the dragon or its fiery breath. With that said, I really like how Crimson Creek rolls off the tongue. Lastly, Applefort is also simple and evocative and many places where named as such.
As a dragon is Lord the apple can be gemstone apples and village be called gemapple orchards
The map looks fantastic. Those markers made a huge difference.
Found your channel through Reddit. Great intro, necessary convictions, and then wonderful process to showcase.
Fort Chamkar
Chamkar is orchard in the Khmer language.
I often get stuck for names so I go looking for the equivalent in other languages 😉
I see these all over instagram and I wonder how do they make these, thanks for video. Very informative
I'm so glad I found your channel! I'm trying to make a city map for my fantasy book and I'm struggling to design a major element for the city. My people in this country are all tree-dwellers, they live up in the trees with platforms and bridges drawn in between. How would you translate a home-tree from a top-view? A tree with a spiralling staircase around the truck that leads into the platforms and the bridges?
Look up “tree city dnd map” and you see some good examples!
What a beautiful map! Looking forward to watching more of your videos, thanks so much.
I just wanted to say thank you for the great tutorials. I love your positive and inspiring way.
I heard a good town name earlier. You could call the town Highspire
Wyrmhaven. It refers to both the dragon and the worms in the apples. My son likes Appleton.
That’s a great village of about 100 people. I like the orchards. But there should be about 1000 acres of fields, like, really close by, not random trees.
In the lands to the east a small town by spanking over a dark river. A dark Shady Town guarded by the Mystical Dragon mordu that protects the small town from raids of goblins and Orcs. The small town of DRAGON HALLOW has been known for its rare Enchanted apples.
This is an older video, but a few of these map videos, this one especially, inspired me recently to try it for my next game. I’m really struggling, not so much with the drawing of houses and trees, but with figuring out where to place them and factoring in like, hills. I just can’t seem to do hills and I don’t know how close a house can be to a river. So many things just look awkward due to placement alone ☹️ still having fun doing it.
Glad you're having fun! Definitely start with pencil so you can erase and move things around. It's great you can tell what feels awkward, now it's just a matter of changing it until it doesn't anymore ;)
Fantastic video! Here are a few I thought of Blossom Breeze Valley, Pitsville, Cobbler Creek, Sleepy Orchard. I am curious as to the size, weight, and brand of paper you are using? It works well with the markers! Much appreciated!
Thanks! The paper is just white printer paper that is a tiny bit thicker than regular. Not cover stock level, but not super thin either. Cheap stuff, nothing fancy.
Some name ideas: Drappleton, Afaldraig (Welsh for "Apple Dragon"), or maybe Tarakapu (a portmanteau of the Samoan words for "apple dragon")
Also, good on you for putting that statement at the top of the video.
Or if it's a gold dragon: Golden Delicious!
Apparently there's an apple variety called Gravenstein!
THIS IS AMIZING stuff JP!! When will you be doing that character drawing creation video I'm eager for that to come out. But all things considered you are doing an amazing job love your videos.
Soon! It's on the list!
IM SO HYPED
I was looking to find a way to draw a map of a real life location and this kind of helps
Oh! Forgot to suggest a name! How about Dragons Delect? Or if the dragon has a name, ______’s Delect? I am a huge user of alliteration in my maps 🤣 So used for a dragon name generator, something like Delbarro’s Delect? Before the apples were brought up I was thinking Dragons Meet, which would be like a double meaning, the people there meet the dragon for disputes but it also means the townfolk are just meatbags to him 🤷🏼♂️
I would name it Rödpärlastad, I usually look for a foreign language me or my players do not speak and translate a few words looking for something that sounds cool. In this case Red Gem Town translated to swedish :D Idk is a trick I usually follow because i get stuck at naming things sometimes
That's awesome! I had a DM that does that... only problem was half the time we couldn't pronounce stuff clearly :P
Errr maybe dragons hill or fire stone or appels c astle
thanks for the tips, just got my dungeon master's guide delivered today, starting the game in a few weeks
Awesome!!!! Have fun!
@@JPCoovert dragon's breath could be a cool name for an inn
And here is where DRAGONTOWN became more than just an idea. Happy thoughts of the imagination.
Beulisunberg , after the last remaining adventurer of Kessler's companions. A half-elf named Beulah Sun, the partys Bard. Who talked the dragon into the position it holds now after watching all of her party die gruesome deaths. Talk about a nice time for a natural twenty to get rolled.
Wow so inspiring I have never played d&d but now I really want to
It's fun! You should try it!!!
The town should be called Idun for the Norse Goddess Idun. Keeper of the Apples of Immortality.
I like it!
This looks phenomenal! You've inspired me to make my own maps for our campaign, but one question...What kind of paper do you use?
With markers, smooth Bristol board. Type of paper only matters for the tools your using.
Town Names? How about Dank River Crossing. As in: this map is literally that. ... 😂👌🔥🔥🔥 Love it.
I don't know how to say how much I'm thanking you! ❤️❤️ Beautiful mao
May I ask if these grey pens are special slow drying pens? Because I have the problem that with all the pens I could find i draw darker when I overlap the strokes. Did I do something wrong?
Yeah, alcohol markers can be tricky like that. I recommend looking up some copic tutorial videos, they’ll be able to help more than I can!
For the towns name it would be cool to name it “lichen Light”
JP how do you consider scale for the buildings? Seems easier with the Cavern or Hideout, but here I seem to be having trouble
That is tricky! In this case, I think the fort/castle is probably too small and the apple trees too big. I think it's really all about the relationship between stuff. So in the planning phase, figuring out how big trees are or any other sort of natural element can help you determine how big the buildings should be in relation.
Pink Lady Ville, Or Elstaria, Golden delicionia, Fuji, Granny Smithiona
Could you go over how you scan and clean up your maps in a tutorial? I'm having trouble removing the blue lines, and can't for the life of me find a tutorial on this exact issue. It's probably something like "how to remove artefacts" or something but I was wondering if there is an easier way of going about it.
I scan at 600 dpi (300 for color.) There are several ways of getting rid of the blue lines. I usually just adjust the levels (Image>Adjustments>Levles) in Photoshop. Try looking up "removing non-photo blue" for whatever program you use. Good luck!
Thanks I used this for school 😀
This is so cool! Very inspiring, thanks for sharing!
Hey jp. Haven’t watched the video yet but I already liked because I know it’s gonna be awesome 😎.
Cider Breeze.
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THANX
This is sick. Going to try this technique for sure.
Can you do a video on a larger-scale city, with walls and distinct districts?
Already done one like that! Scroll back thru the channel and you'll find it ;)
Awesome work, can You tell me what paper You use and the name of that markers? Sry for My English.
Just regular old copy paper, nothing special. Paper Mate Flair and Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens :)
Great video man, very very helpful. My players will be very happy. :) keep it going
Potential town name: Drakeseed.
The apples only grow due to the drake's seed 😏😏 iykwim
Great tutorial. These look like broadleaf woods. Can you show how to draw an evergreen forest? Cheers!
Try it out yourself! Test some different approaches on a scrap sheet of paper. Maybe try keeping the general shape round, but instead of little semi circles, the trees are made out of more angular lines?
Hi 👋🏻 What about "Golden Apple Keep" for the town-name ? 🤔😊
Du you have a PDF-copy of the map ? 😊
@@CastleBricks Nope! This video is to encourage you to make your own!
@@JPCoovert It's okay 😊
Is that book mentioned at the beginning good for worldbuilding in general, even non-DnD worlds? :)
Awesome and helpful video :3
The Dungeon Master's Guide? Probably not worth it. There is only a small section of the book about world building.
Drachenapfel (dragon apple in german)
Another awesome video JP! Really love watching your method and talent on display. I NEEEEED THAT COPIC MARKER 🤯. And thank you for saying something about BLM! You’re the best dude!
The Queen’s Orchard, with the queen being the dragon?
It is exactly same as village 😍
Coovertown, Cider Creek, Jamsville, Beetlesbrook
Make more of this, soooo good i learn a lot with this video
Thanks! Got lots more videos like this one! Check out the rest of the channel ;)
I know it's years late, but I propose "Bogley's Dart"
Nice to see you standing up for ths fight!
Hey, man, nice map! What about some pixel city map someday?
Be cool if you would maybe make up an Amazon shop or with list that would have all the pens and such you use a lot of. Would be great to grab some of the things you use.
Good idea! I will link the tools in future videos!
Amazing job! Wanna try. Could you wright down the pens you used?
I suggest Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens in various sizes. And I'm using a Copic Sketch marker for the gray. C3 is the color.
This video really saved my day!! It's great
This is soooo cool I can not wait to see more -Lincoln
JP Coovert u should help me with a map of different areas and can u see if u can help me with it plz and thank u and i like ur videos im from south dakota and i like to draw and write books and listen to music and i like to watch ur videos and i like to see wht u do in the next video
11:48 who thought of minecraft
I think Dracore would work.
Cool video! Good intro too. Thanks!
Sacrumus
Sacrum means sacred in Latin
what kind of paper do you use for drawing ?
whatever! cheap printer paper!
How do you draw long grass
Taller vertical lines :)
Terrific video, thanks!