How to Draw Your Own D&D Town Map!

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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[adamtomlinson]

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.

[michealbohmer]

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.

[PaladinProse]

Man, JP. I am NOT an artist by any stretch, and this evening I was staring at a blank page, terrified but knowing I really wanted to try my hand at drawing a town map for my session two days from now. This video is gold. You are a force of nature! Thank you so much!

[DBKING]

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.

[josef-c-]

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.

[BhelliomRahl]

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.

[TheBearMoose]

This was a big help. I think I get to go too detailed when I think about drawing something like this, and then I just never do it because, "It'll take too long!" Thanks for the video!

[WCPFISH]

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?

[RaVirrTheTrader]

You and Map Crow need to work together. You're both talented and incredibly imaginative. Beautiful work, as always.

[TheGallicWitch]

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?

[harperhowe]

Serpent Orchard, Apple Valley, Orchard Valley, Dragon Orchard, Appleburg.

[theeverythingchannel]

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

[josephmartin]

Town name possiblity: Pyrus Malus or Pyrumalis.
Loved this video and how you went through the thought process as well as the drawing process.

[SkaterChan]

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

[TheTekKo]

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?

[algilbert]

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

[meghan]

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!

[kimling]

School of magic, Fire House, Hospital, , Adventure Guild buildings

[JulieHiltbrunner]

Just love your excitement and positivity!

[TruErepo]

found this so late but man have these videos helped advance my maps