The Wilderness Books of Modular Maps for Tabletop Roleplay.
Created by Loke Battle Mats
A set of 2 Beautiful Map Books for tabletop roleplaying games. Wilderness themed lay flat maps for fantasy outdoor encounters.
Orders will be charged from July 2021. We expect to deliver orders Q4 2021.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
We have funded!! And what to expect next - Pledge Manager timeline.
about 3 years ago
– Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 08:32:38 AM
Thank you all so much for coming on this adventure!
We are so excited to start work making these books a reality!
What happens next?
Now we have funded we wanted to share an approximate timeline so you know what is happening as we move through the process.
March 1 - Kickstarter Campaign ends (yay! successfully funded!)
By End March - Pledge Manager opens (we will use Backerkit) - This is where you will confirm your address and pay postage, as well as select any optional purchases to add to your pledge.
By End April - We will deliver the digital Package - Via DriveThruRPG.
While all this is going on we'll be finalising the map designs and perfecting the other products to produce pre-production samples. We expect to have everything signed off and start mass production by the start of May. We'll be updating weekly so you can follow progress.
One we have the products approved we will share the production & shipping timelines.
We will send a dedicated update before we open the pledge manager with a detailed explanation, with screen shots on how to complete your survey, before we open the pledge manager.
We will shortly send an update of the optional purchases available to add onto pledges.
Thank you again for your amazing support!
Matt & Tam
Loke Battle Mats
As usual Matt will be on Twitch at 22.00 GMT tonight working on the maps, you're all welcome to pop in and see how he's getting on :) twitch.tv/lokebattlemats
Stretch Goal Hit! Now we swap the plain grid for an extra map!
about 3 years ago
– Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:08:38 AM
Thank you all so much!
Thanks to everyone sharing and talking about our campaign we have now hit our last stretch goal at £175,000!
This means we will be swapping the plain grid in the book for a new map set. But what will we add in?
We asked you to complete the survey to tell us what you'd like to see and the winner is.........
Sprawling Ruins!
Here's how you voted -
Our Ruins maps will be a ruined Dungeon!
So lots of overgrown ruined rooms open to the elements, lots of interconnections, flooded sections, lots of steps and level changes. Lots of fun to be had! Matt will start sketching later and we'll share progress on the new maps as we go!
The reason we have taken the decision to remove the plain grids in this book is because we have given a plain gridded version of all the biomes we have included. So we feel that there is plenty of scope for drawing your own maps in these books!
A quick note -
We have been asked a lot in the comments about how to change Early Bird Pledges. The good news is that if you were an early bird backer you can change your pledge in Kickstarter (click the Manage my Pledge button and amend - don't cancel then repledge) or in the Backer Kit Pledge Manager.
We have a note of which backer numbers qualify for Early Bird Pledges :)
Stretch Goals
We have now hit our final stretch goal. We can't thank you enough for all your support, shares and comments. This has been such a fun campaign to run and we can't wait to get started on production samples of all the final products to show you all!
We will not be adding any additional stretch goals to this campaign. This is because we have a tight timeline and many products to produce, and we want to focus on delivering this campaign to the highest possible standard and, very importantly, on time.
We are concerned that if we add any additional products we will delay this project.
Our campaign ends Monday so please keep sharing! Thanks again for coming on the wild adventure with us!
Matt & Tam
Loke Battle Mats
A Closer Look at our Combat Twist Cards
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 01:59:21 AM
Let us help liven up your combat encounters!
Our nifty box of Combat Twist cards is a high quality boxed deck of cards to liven up or randomise combat encounters!
We have worked our deck into 4 categories -
Targeting - Suggests who to target with an attack, where the attack hits and what the effect is.
Wild Magic - Expect the Unexpected with these random effects!
Environment - How the terrain and surroundings may affect combat
Tactics - Some nifty NPC tactics to surprise your players!
Over 150 cards
System agnostic, these combat twists can be used with any campaign and system!
You can go through the decks ahead to time to pull out your favourite ideas for the session, or pull out random cards as you roll!
Loke's Deck of Combat Twists will be available as an optional purchase in the pledge manager (£22), and is included in the One of Everything Please and Wilderness Master Pledges.
Tam and Matt
Loke Battle Mats
A closer look at the Little Book of Wilderness Battle Mats AND Social Stretch Goal hit!
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 12:41:58 AM
Lets start by celebrating hitting our Social Stretch Goal!
You awesome lot have shared our social media posts far & wide and to say a huge thank you we are adding 20 "Ruins" tokens to the Digital Wilderness, which is included with every pledge level.
Here's a little look at some -
Always a firm favourite, our Little Book packs in a lot of Peril!
The Little Book of Wilderness Battle Mats is a peril packed addition to the Kickstarter!
Designed to allow the Game Master to add perilous places exactly where and when needed, the 6x6" book allows a map to be extended and customised in moments.
For our Wilderness Edition we have focused on adding in perilous encounter areas. Ruins, shipwrecks, temples, caves, lair and much much more. Now an encounter which started off looking rather straight forwards can take an interesting turn at any point!
Perfect for random encounters as a stand alone map book, The Little Book of Wilderness Battle Mats is available as an optional purchase in the pledge manager, and is included in the Expanded Wilderness, Double Wilderness, One of Everything Please and Wilderness Master Pledge Levels.
The Digital Maps from the Little Book are included in the Digital Wilderness, which is included in every pledge level.
We have just over 3 days left so lets get that £175k stretch goal hit!
Matt & Tam
Loke Battle Mats
A closer look at our Immersive GM Screen
about 3 years ago
– Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:12:57 AM
So what exactly is an immersive GM Screen?
Well it's a system agnostic screen, beautifully illustrated on BOTH sides, without the usual campaign specific tables.
Wilderness landscape on one side
Fantasy Townscape on the other side
For the GM the long low screen allows you to see and reach the action easily. It also provides privacy for notes and dice rolls. It's fully laminated on both sides which makes sticky notes easy to get on and off. Or even store the Decals you need for the encounter handily on your side of the screen!
For the players the screen extends the setting beyond the battle map.
Our screen draws you fully into the setting, grounding the encounter in either a fantasy urban or wilderness setting.
We carefully commissioned our artwork to compliment and extend our map books, and our artist Andreas Rocha has delivered two truly stunning artworks.
The Townscape side paired up with our Towns & Taverns set
Our Immersive GM Screen is available as an optional purchase in the pledge manager after the campaign ends, and it is included in the One of Everything Please and Wilderness Master pledges.
We had 'help' during our photo shoot...
Please Don't forget to keep sharing this campaign so we can get all our stretch goals met!! I have pinned posts to our FB and Twitter profiles so please share that post!! (if we hit 100 FB shares and 100 retweets we add 20 "Ruins" digital tokens to the Digital Wilderness!)
(update - we have 94 Retweets and 108 Facebook shares so not too far at all to go before we unlock those Ruins tokens!!)
