Just another day in the map lab

Space Wizard GM Prep in the Sketchy Van

#fantasyart #darkfantasy #digitalart #illustration #ttrpg #osr

Merry Christmas and a happy Holidays from the Sketchy Van Santa brought me an old school dnd blanket

One of the most gorgeous games I've come across in awhile is Vaults of Vaarn. I love these kind of settings born out of a creators' passion for an imagined place. Ultimately, they're some of my favorite things about roleplaying games. vaults-of-vaarn-second-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Have you been good this year? The Sackfather's verminous spies whisper the names of the virtuous and the wicked in his goatish ears.

DNGN CLUB '25: A year in review – QUANTUM NOBODIES This is my most popular free game by a long shot. It entails the misadventures of a group of people trapped outside of time who are trapped in a Live, Laugh, Die cycle on repeat. 🧵

I also have a tiktok account. Come hang out, I post map making stuff like this over there Putting the finishing few lines on a sea floor map for an upcoming adventure being announced at Philly Area Game Expo in January www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yB3YTM/

VJ has been a mutual of mine for ~5 years. Not only is he an active tiktoker, but he's also a fantastic and accomplished ttrpg designer. If you're on the clock app, go give them a follow

A little sneak peak at the maps I've been working on this month for an upcoming adventure #FantasyMap #osr #dndart #FantasyArt #map

made an addition to the Elves post, adding my interpretation of od&d's elf dual-classing rule, which i've been using in my most recent game!

Looks like I'm going to be at the Philly Area Game Expo on Saturday Jan 17th. 2 big projects I've been doing maps for are going to be announced there! Who else is going?

"Well, I'm back" he said. Over the last three months, I've keyed every hex in the bounds of the Shire, including rumors, nested random encounters, and five embedded mini-dungeons. I've collated them into a document, linked on the blog:

If you are a fan of the BlueSky OSR feed Yochai created, that I now manage, please consider donating for its upkeep costs! The service we use has created this convenient page where you can donate directly to paying for the feed’s hosting. blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/save.vs.to...

You can trust @sketchyvanrpg.com just uh...get in the van but you have to bring your own dice.....

Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I review Mana Meltdown by @lazylitch.bsky.social, and answer a mailbag question. www.patreon.com/posts/144231...

A pirate island map I made a while back for a Pirate Borg campaign I was running #OSR #FantasyMap #PirateBorg #PirateMap

Go check this out. I did the maps and the character sheet for Bree-YARC

Happy Turkey Day!

The very first map I drew in 2020 after a 20 year break from ttrpgs. After bouncing off 5e, I quickly found the OSR and skerples Tomb of the Serpent Kings

In the spirit of hobbit birthdays, have some free games!

In 2025 I will begin publishing Cairn supplements for third parties, under the moniker Cairn Press. If you're a writer and want help with editing, layout, or printing I should be able to hook you up with the right people. My goal is to make more Cairn content and get people paid for their work.

You probably didn't see I stealth-released a mini TTRPG Now you too can do gas station alchemy with your best friend and be the gutter gourmands you've always dreamed. This will also be included in the print version of Junk N' Trunk Recycling!! Wowee!!

Hey, that's Desiccated Temple of Locha, my first adventure! Go get it from www.sabregamesandcards.com/products!

It's super fun to use that Inventory System. One thing we had a blast with was just raiding the "Junk Drawer" for miscellaneous things to make up the Gear:

Full versions are up on my Patreon for members, and I drop free versions there too! Sign up and get access to my monthly map packs patreon.com/sketchyvanrp...

My upcoming big dungeon, THE CASTLE AUTOMATIC, is the ultimate result of my efforts with #dungeon23. Has anyone else out there published their dungeon23 project?

Oh we are talking OSR megadungeons? For Dungeon23 I compiled this massive vault of megadungeon resources. Last I checked there were around 200 links across the entire thing! Go check it out! duvelmandice.github.io/vault/

I'm running a tutorial session of OSE in FoundryVTT for some people this week. In preparation, I made a Beginners Guide to follow along for those players. Check it out now on my blog, includes the downloadable PDF sketchyvanrpg.com/2025/11/18/o... #OSE #FoundryVTT #osr

I'm running a tutorial session of OSE in FoundryVTT for some people this week. In preparation, I made a Beginners Guide to follow along for those players. Check it out now on my blog, includes the downloadable PDF sketchyvanrpg.com/2025/11/18/o... #OSE #FoundryVTT #osr

Bumping this for the folks who missed it. I had the great pleasure of speaking with @monagle.bsky.social and @donatobomb.bsky.social about horror films, tabletop games, horror in tabletop, and the under-seen Canadian horror film Black Mountain Side (2014). Give Certified Forgotten a listen!

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

Detail from the map for The Chained Colossus, my Cairn 2e adventure from the Appx N Jam. I've been going through my black and white maps and painting color versions #FantasyMap #dndArt #ttrpgArt #MapMaking

I've made over a dozen games and supplements this year! A mixed bag of genres (and lot of them free!). If you haven't had a taken a chance to peruse the shop, please do! #indiettrpg #ttrpg #selfpromotionsaturday

Behold! The massive RPG Moral Panic video I've been researching and assembling for years, and why people who call the whole affair the Satanic Panic are wrong. I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system. youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c

This adventure set in Greyhawk was released today I did all the maps! Grab the PDFs for $6 or the POD for $20! www.dmsguild.com/en/product/5... #osr #greyhawk

Dropped some free and premium maps on my Patreon today Swing by and grab these 4 color maps for free, members get full res and vtt sized day and night versions of these maps! www.patreon.com/posts/novemb... #FantasyArt #FantasyMap #dndArt #Maps

Latest dungeon maps from the back of the Sketchy Van Nighttime Edition #FantasyMap #maps #OSR #MapMaking

Need 2 hours of chill out time? Watch me turn a ink sketch dungeon into a full color map www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5dQ... #MapMaking #FantasyArt #dndArt #maps

Today I've been trying to wrap my brain around importing and editing the timelapse videos of my map illustration in DaVinci Resolve and quickly realizing I'm out of my depth It's been 15+ years since I've used a pro level video editor I'm just trying to do some basic Pan & Zoom stuff

Dungeon map of the mountain-side temple known to locals as Shalecrest Watch #FantasyMap #dndArt #dndMap #osr

Practicing making multiple versions of my ttrpg maps using a graveyard I did a while back Image 1 - original ink sketch Image 2 - day Image 3 - night

Get my maps on Itch! In addition to Patreon, now you can pick up my maps on Itch Just $5 for 6 maps! sketchyvanrpg.itch.io/map-pack-1 #FantasyMap #dndArt #Maps #osr

Go check this out! BX by way of modern d20 I did some maps and the character sheet for it!

It's time for more BETWEEN TWO CAIRNS featuring special guest @explorersdesign.bsky.social. We review "Warped Beyond Recognition" by @traaa.sh. Enjoy your delicious moments, folks. www.patreon.com/posts/142727...

New Patreon map: Washed Out Bridge Part of my Against the Cult of the Reptile God inspired adventure for Cairn 2e The cultist gang in town are basically juggalos, and near the washed out bridge near town is their bonfire party spot www.patreon.com/posts/washed...

umm so about that... (actual picture of the folder for a ttrpg project i finished last year) One of those .afpub master docs has been edited and proofread. Guess in the comments which pdf export contains that version and win a prize! lol

New Patreon map: Washed Out Bridge Part of my Against the Cult of the Reptile God inspired adventure for Cairn 2e The cultist gang in town are basically juggalos, and near the washed out bridge near town is their bonfire party spot www.patreon.com/posts/washed...

As I once explained in my LiveJournal days: * a 32-page Pathfinder adventure has 20,000 words. * a 99.9% typo-free 32-page adventure would have 20 typos. * that’s a typo every 1.5 pages. * reducing that would delay every book a significant amount.