Ross McConnell from 2-Minute Tabletop explains his personal method to designing and drawing battle maps for tabletop role-playing games.
Tag: tutorial
How To Print Maps & Assets To Scale With GIMP
How to use the GIMP image editor to print precisely to scale. In particular, printing maps, assets, and tokens on a 1-inch grid.
A Beginner’s Guide to Foundry VTT
This guide aims to explain how to get started with custom maps, assets, and tokens on a fresh install of the Foundry virtual tabletop.
A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeondraft Custom Assets
A three-step beginner’s guide to importing custom asset packs into Dungeondraft using the hand-drawn “dungeondraft_pack” files I provide.
A Beginner’s Guide to Roll20
How to import our hand-drawn battle maps, assets, character tokens, and other art into Roll20. Designed for those new to the Roll20 virtual tabletop.
How Ben Adds Light and Shadow to His Dungeons
First, Ben’s multi-part, custom-lit dungeon made using many of our 2-Minute map assets. Second, his guide on how you can achieve such lighting effects yourself!
How To Make a Custom Dungeon Map with Photoshop
My Beginners Guide to Photoshop – specifically in using it to create custom battle maps with my 2-Minute Tabletop assets. Follow along!
How to Run a Horror Adventure
Night descends, enveloping the small town in creeping shadows. The party looks out from the safety of their inn room. They know the kinds of monsters that lurk in the dark and the many ways to face them, and the time for that will come. Before they can destroy the horrors, they must first research, […]
How to Run an Island Adventure
Is your campaign taking to the seas, and you want inspiration on how to populate them? Enjoy our encounter charts, maps, and assets – a perfect start!
How to Run an Ocean Adventure
The party climbs aboard and takes to their posts. Sails lower, the ship lurches against the waves, and the horizon soon swallows the last glimpses of land. An ocean adventure awaits. Many dangers and disturbances await them, but their travel is not a series of progressive events. Many of their days are quiet and uneventful, […]
How To Design a Town
Most tabletop adventures begin in a humble town in the countryside. But how do you design a town? We break down the process in this detailed guide.
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!
Let’s Draw a Forest
In this video I explain my process for drawing trees, bushes, and underbrush, each with multiple levels of detail. You can draw them quick and dirty, or slow and pretty!
Let’s Draw Caves
Join me as I try and explain my cave-battle-map-drawing-method using actual English words. This is the first episode in my new, laid-back, “Let’s Draw” tutorial series, where I talk through how I go about drawing my battle maps. It’s been too long!
Speed Drawing the Roadside Camp & Clearcut map tiles (Pt.2)
This is a 30x time-lapse of my painting process for my latest two map tiles, the Roadside Camp & Clearcut.
Speed Drawing the Roadside Camp & Clearcut map tiles (Pt.1)
In this time-lapse I draw two more Roadside tiles, the Camp and the Clearcut, sped up to 10x speed.
Speed Drawing some Roadside map tiles (Pt.2)
Here you can watch me paint and tweak the Roadside Rise & Wilderness battle map tiles, a time-consuming process sped up 1000-3000x for your viewing pleasure!
Speed Drawing some Roadside map tiles (Pt.1)
In this video I hand draw two tiles for my new Roadside series, a series of battle maps for random encounters on the road.
Speed Drawing the Snowy Summit battle map (Pt.2)
Coloring the Snowy Summit battle map in Photoshop, at a zippy 25-50x speed.
Speed Drawing the Snowy Summit battle map (Pt.1)
Drawing my latest map, the Snowy Summit, at 10x speed!
Speed Drawing the Crystal Cave battle map
Watch this icy cave map come together in 10 minutes, sped up 4-15 times!
Speed Drawing the Crystal Hill battle map
My work process sped up to 400-1000% as I draw the Crystal Hill.
Assembling the Harvest Horror Paper Figurines
I’m rebooting my YouTube channel with this simple “Let’s Build” time lapse of my Harvest Horror paper figurines. This video’s main purpose was to test out my new filming setup, so please excuse its simplicity!
How To Build a Castle in Roll20
This video guide explains how to use my Castle Walls Tileset to build your own custom castle in Roll20.
Flatting in Photoshop
In this video I explain the foundational discipline of “flatting” and my personal method. It is an excellent practice that makes layer manipulation and color tweaking very simple in all stages of your coloring process.
Jake’s Table Top City (Part 1)
Jake thought up and funded much of the modular buildings set, and kindly sent me this write up of his city-in-progress. He’s got a lot of great tips and an excellent concept, and I’m itching to see the finished product!
Building a 2.5-dimensional Battle Map
I’ve long wanted to show off some of my 2.5-D stuff, and today I set the time aside that I needed to record the construction process.
