I'm Stephen, a former research scientist as well as a roleplayer for nearly 40 years now, I am making maps for virtual table tops (VTTs) that you are free to use for streaming or pay to play games without asking my permission, though I'd love to hear about any games that make use of my maps. If you have any suggestions you can contact me on waysiderpress@gmail.com
I make battlemaps using 3D software that are designed to be 'near photorealistic' in style and vast in extent! My goal is to make 'total environments' for table top RPGs to rival those found in computer games! I believe that the future of VTT gaming is not to merely reproduce the experience of gaming in person, but is instead to provide a unique experience that in some ways surpasses face to face gaming.
Maps made for printed media, or for use on physical table tops, are often 'visual strait-jackets' that depict tiny areas and so unintentionally 'rail-road' players with one entrance and zero surrounding geographical context. Unfortunately, many maps made for VTTs suffer from the same limitations as they are adaptations. I make maps that cover large areas surrounding the 'adventure site' so that players can choose how and when to meet the challenge and so that DMs can use the locales in a variety of different ways. However, these maps are still useable at battlemap scale over their entire extent. Essentially I am making the maps I need for my own games, but can never find.
