Village - All 7 Villages and 21 NPCs Bundled together into a PDF

 This is probably not the final format, I expect I'll bundle them with the city-states and campaign setting,  but anyone that wants 7villages and 21 NPCs for Free here is the Link.

Village - Ginswallop

The last of the recycled villages. I might create more at some point as It's kind of fun, but I've noticed these old ones are a bit repetitive so it might be a while before I have something more creative to say. I'd like to add a bunch of interior maps but my own interior maps (at least of buildings) need a lot of practice and AI attempts at interiors suck so far. I might punt and just rename the different locations to match maps Dyson Logos has drawn, he does very  nice work. 

Village - Ferryham

 

Village - Cumber Upon Lud

I went for the most British sounding names I could find. The names don't really match with the mediterranean look of the villages but I don't care. 

Village - Crowsmouth

Crowsmouth is really done, I'm still debating it I'd prefer a larger picture that shows all three NPCs to fill out the bottom of the page or not, maybe I'll keep it as is and put a statblock of sorts.

Village - Black Le Marsh

The villages are designed as 2-page spreads. I'm not certain I like the village picture busting up the Location list but it looks better as a spread so I'll keep it for now. The little NPC faces were made using the same AI as the village map.

 

Village - Bexley Head

I love the way the AI made most of the villages along hills in sea coves. 

Village - Ambly

 

Villages Intro

A long time ago (maybe 2019?) I created a bunch of village maps using some historical villages surrounding 17th century London (I think). I found them online. I eventually decided I didn't like the maps I used, they had no style, they were just black and white line-drawing and it didn't have enough contrast to really work for me. At some point I must have deleted them from the site because I can't find them online any more but I had copies on my hard drive. 

Now fast forward to 2025 and I was playing around with AI and playing with prompts and came up with some village maps I liked a lot more. I found the AI doesn't make good English or German villages or towns for some reason but if you tell it Greek, or Italian, Carthaginian I started seeing a lot of stuff I liked.

I used isometric as one of the commands which produces villages with roads in the village that aren't always really visible, and it tended to be a bit repetitive, but I liked the results.

When done I'll bundle them all into a single pdf. Until then I'll publish them on this site... Here is an example of the old style map.

Setting - Retreada Islands

The Retreada Islands are a setting I'm throwing together quick and cheap with AI maps and art. Whenever my mind gets distracted and doesn't want to work on more serious things I jump on over and work on this a bit.

The setting has a single God "Lough" (pronounced Law). The cult has divided into two conflicting cults (like Protestants and Catholics). The point is the only temples in town are Temples of Lough which makes things a bit easier from my point of view even if it does straight-jacket the player who wants to be a Cleric a bit. 

Below is the map of the Islands, created by AI with my own text added Eventually it'll be a two-page spread (thus the line) when it finally gets put into a proper pdf. I'm not sure I like the city icons or not, they appear to be a slightly different style than the geography but they'll do for now.

The idea for the setting was some islands that could be dropped into a GM's existing setting or that would allow the GM to easily draw the world beyond the islands and create their own. I did not want an empire or large kingdoms but a bunch of medieval city-states that might fight each other all the time the way the Italians did. I wanted the climate to be Greek/Italian for some reason. The North East part of Bleaking Island (in the Eastern shadows of Mt Stumblecrag) will have a handful of ruins to make it easy for a GM to place adventures if they aren't into sword & sorcery factions fighting in the cities type adventure. 

I went for British sounding names all around. I considered German but the Warhammer world has already mined that vein.

I'm still working on the history of the place but may not go into detail to let each GM fill in the story to fit their world.