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The Dragonfly Cluster - Map and Music Pack with Adventure Music
🕑 Added 2022-04-30 15:05:43 +0000 UTCThe sky-islands settlement is here!
... and as a special treat, Adventure Music (who composes lovely background music for TTRPG settings), has collaborated with me again to compose a wonderful, gently playful, uplifting soundtrack to accompany The Dragonfly Cluster setting.
There is a free sample track & Explorers+ are receiving the full length track.
If you would like a looped version or to see/hear what other music Adventure Music creates, go check out their Patreon page.
If you want to check out our last collaboration, The Cavern Tavern, you can find it here.
Maps & music for The Cavern Tavern are still in the Adventures & Navigators map archives :-)
I hope you all enjoy the music
About the Map:
Floating in an endless realm of clouds and air, The Dragonfly Cluster is a gathering of sky-islands clustered near each other, some above, some far below... all floating along together... and ideally never colliding... However, one cannot escape the knowledge that some of your players will ruin this dream and have all sorts of collision chaos ;-)
Some islands and island clusters are small with single dwellings on them, others are larger, with small settlements and farms. Three have portals to allow travel to & from other realms, one has a giant tree with a small shrine hidden under the canopy, one has a large cage hanging under it for crows or other carrion birds... and 3 large trapdoors on top, leading to tubes that bodies can be dropped through to the birds (or, for those with less gory people in your worlds, it can be an aviary for tame flying creatures), one is a completely constructed circular 'island, another has a large complex of round buildings partly hidden underneath and binding 3 large rocks together (temple? mage collage?)... and more... have fun discovering interesting places to visit
The complete map, if printed out @300dpi would be approximately an A2 poster, or 16x23 inches ... plenty big enough to zoom in and explore every detail, to dream up adventures and to imagine wandering around down there...
Here is a full size slice so you can see what the detail level is :-)
About the Creator Kit for Surveyors:
Instead of a bunch of different variations for this map... this time you can make your own variations of The Dragonfly Cluster map, in either the 'soft cloudy' setting or in two different 'nebula' settings using the full collection of all 33 sky island, along with cloudy backgrounds, cloud assets, nebula layers and more... Or just use the individual island clusters by them selves in lofty isolation or, perhaps Rarthon (or some other town) needs some more floating islands drifting in the skies above?
Each sky island, floating island cluster or scattering of rocks comes as a separate, transparent .png that can be used by themselves or as part of a larger cluster... Arrange them however you like.
Downloads...
File size for maps = less than 5mb
- 4900 x 6900 × pixels =32x 46 squares for Vtt use @ 150dpi
- Will print on an A2 poster sheet = 16x23 inches if printed @ 300dpi
Adventurers Adventurers Map Archive page
- Framed poster version without logo .... With & without title/location/key labels
- 'Home of the Dragonflies' Sample by Adventure Music
Navigators Navigators Map Archive page
Adventurers rewards PLUS:
- 'Home of the Dragonflies' Soundtrack by Adventure Music
- 'Soft clouds' version (same as poster without frame) - in 4 'layers' where the layers of islands are removed layer by layer.
- Greyscale version of clean poster - optimised for printing
Explorers Explorers Map Archive page
Adventurers & Navigators rewards PLUS:
- 1st 'Nebula' variation - in 4 'layers' where the layers of islands are removed layer by layer.
Surveyors Surveyors Map Archive page
Adventurers, Navigators & Explorers rewards PLUS:
- 2nd Nebula sample map - single map-layer only
Plus, this time, a complete Creator Kit Asset Pack:
- 33 floating islands and rock clusters (plus 1 giant tree canopy overlay)
- 24 'cloud' assets to layer between (works best with some opacity added)
- Empty 'art nouveau' style map frame
- 2 x 'Soft cloudy' background layers that can also be sandwiched (at low opacity) between islands to make them 'fade' into the depths
- 1st nebula split into 5 texture/colour layers that islands can be placed 'between' to make them look like they are sinking into the nebula
- 2nd Nebula split into 5 texture/colour layers that islands can be placed 'between' to make them look like they are sinking into the nebula
- + short assembly advice note
Free public versions:
- The framed and labeled poster version shown below _ 2000 x 2876 pixels...
- Sample track "Home of the Dragonflies" by Adventure Music
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Not a patron yet? .. Just dropping in for the free map? All good - have fun ;-)
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Every little bit helps... Your support will enable me eat and to to carry on making maps for everyone to enjoy, and you will have access to higher resolutions & alternate variations whenever I release a map (depending on what support tier you settle on)
Note that this is a 'paid release'. If you want to buy the full map pack instead of becoming a Patreon supporter, it is available in my map shop :
- Just the maps (Equivalent to the Explorer Tier)
- Creator Kit + Maps (Equivalent to the Surveyor Tier) - TBA - In the next couple of days
