We’re celebrating D&D’s Forgotten Realms Heroes of Faerun and Adventures in Faerun by offering our own Roll20 pre-order bonus maps when you pre-order them together!
How it works:
- A new bonus unlocks every month!
- Pre-order anytime to get the current bonus plus all future bonuses.
- Each bonus is live for one month; if you haven’t pre-ordered before it expires, it’s gone for good.
Pro tip: Order today to get this final collection of bonus maps, because once it’s gone, it’s gone!
Introducing Bonus Map Pack 3 (October 7-November 10)
Below, you can learn more about each of these creators and their contributions to this map pack.
Desert Tavern | Moonlight Maps
Do maps inspire your world building or does world building inspire your maps
Worldbuilding definitely inspires the maps we create. Everything starts from an idea of a cool or mysterious location, and naturally the mind wanders before we even put pen to paper. We’ve imagined epic battles, and secret stealthing, around every feature we build into Moonlight Maps!
Which Forgotten Realms region are you excited to explore?
Baldur’s Gate is a huge one for me because of the video game history, but Icewind Dale is on high on my list. I love snowy tundra locations in my worlds, the oppressive cold survival vs the tranquil beauty. Tundra style maps are some of my favourite to create.
What’s your biggest tip for people looking to start making their own maps?
If you want to get into making battle maps, the best advice I can give you is to just start. Find a simple battle map you like the style of (as a starting point, your own style will develop) and recreate it, then make something new to go with that location. See what you like about your map, and what you don’t, and work on those weaker areas. You’ll learn something from every map you make, and your style will improve and change over time. Everyone starts somewhere – the first map I copied was a battle map of a giant sword buried in the ground, by Eightfold Paper (who I’m now lucky enough to call a friend). I didn’t publish that map, of course, but the process taught me a lot about colour and lighting. Oh, bonus tip? Finish one. You learn the most from seeing the process through from start to finish so you can take the lessons onward to the next.
What are some staple maps from your shop that you would recommend to people who like this sample?
We have some Moonlight Maps collections designed for folk that want to grab a load of themed maps easily (we all get choice paralysis!). We have the ‘Cities‘, ‘Villages‘, ‘Snow‘, and ‘Hell‘ collection packs, to name a few essentials, and we also have an extensive collection of Sci-fi & Cyberpunk battle maps over on our Moonlight Maps Scifi Roll20 channel! The City Hospital and Gothic Graveyard are some of my recent favourites, and I’ve made some truly beautiful maps with Wizard’s of the Coast for the D&D 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide, like the Dragon’s Lair and the Volcanic Caves, among others!
Winter Wood | Lost Acumen
Do maps inspire your world building or does world building inspire your maps
A little of both. I often start with the idea of a setting, like a circus, that I’d like to explore and make a list of places that might be there. While I’m making those maps I often get ideas for encounters and write them down in between painting sessions. Other times I’ll have an idea for an adventure and write out the basics before making the maps I need for it. It depends which way my brain is tilting that day.
Which Forgotten Realms region are you excited to explore?
I’m torn between the Moonshae Isles and Baldur’s Gate. With Moonshae you can have a lot of fun with the Feywild bleeding into the material plane, while with Baldur’s Gate you can explore emporiums of obscure artifacts and a wealth of political intrigue.
What’s your biggest tip for people looking to start making their own maps?
Start with some good basic drawing principles. You can request books from your local library about drawing. Keep things simple when you first start out. When I began making maps I had lots of ideas for grand, complicated dungeons that I didn’t have the skill to produce and became very discouraged when my maps didn’t live up to my imagination. So I set those big ideas aside for a while and focused on making smaller, simpler maps. Over time my skills improved and I slowly built up a library of “assets” that I really liked and could use in different maps. I think the most important thing is to be kind to yourself when you’re learning and have fun. Making art takes time and practice, but the more you do it the better you get at it.
What are some staple maps from your shop that you would recommend to people who like this sample?
I would recommend the Summer Wood, Underdark Tunnels and the Dread Planar Gate. The woods and tunnels have a variety of maps a DM can pull from when they need traveling encounters, and the Dread Gate comes with several spooky terrains that players can quickly jump between.
Frozen Cliffs | Sliph Battlemaps
Do maps inspire your worldbuilding or does worldbuilding inspire your maps?
Most of the time they inspire my worldbuilding; I often go on long searches for references and inspiration that lead me to create maps that I would never have previously imagined, consequently that makes me want to add these new locations to my worldbuilding as well, making it is a fun and satisfying loop of learning, creating and adding more life to my fantasy worlds.
Which Forgotten Realms region are you most excited to explore?
Definitely the Moonshae Isles! I really like places full of natural wonders and wilderness to explore, as well as feywild themes!
What’s your biggest tip for people looking to start making their own maps?
Don’t forget to have fun, maybe I say that because this is my job, but it can be easy to find ourselves disappointed at our own creations, don’t let that happen! Find inspiration, create, enjoy the process and learn from it.
What are some staple maps from your shop that you would recommend to people who like this sample?
Another popular snowy map is Snowy Hills, but some personal favorites of mine are Strings of Fate and Druid Camp!
This is your last chance to get bonus maps with your pre-order of The Forgotten Realms Guide Bundle. Get excited for the release on November 11, 2025!