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10 Encounters At Sea

Your party now sails the seas, whether as hired crew or captaining their own ship, and encounters await them!

Maybe you’re preparing to use our d20 chart (coming soon), after inspiration to run Ghosts of Saltmarsh, or crafting your own campaign. To help you along, here are some expanded explanations for the encounters featured in our Ocean Encounters d20 Chart. Under each of them you will find a more detailed description of the encounter’s context, followed by tips and advice. This should give you all the ideas and guidance you need to make the encounters your own and run them in your game.

Sailing Ship Map Assets, build your own sailing ship map

How To Build Your Own Ship Map

In this short and punchy guide I will show you, step by step, how to build your own ship map like the one below. I recorded the process (you will see snippets below) and it took me only eight minutes on my first attempt. And if I can do it, so can you!

How I Became An RPG Map Artist

I have been a world builder for as long as I can remember. I wrote stories as a kid, dreamt of creating monstrously huge video games alone as a teenager, and always, always drew. Nothing much came of it though, as none of these things quite clicked with me.

There is not much of a role-playing presence in my corner of Australia, but fate introduced me to the game during a trip to Canada in 2013. All of a sudden I had a way to bring these worlds to life with the skills I had, and overnight I became a fledgling game master and map artist.

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How To Build Your Own Ship Map

How I Became An RPG Map Artist

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