{"id":2179,"date":"2026-05-18T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:58:48","slug":"creating-better-rpg-maps-rppr-episode-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2026\/05\/podcast-episode\/creating-better-rpg-maps-rppr-episode-209\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Better RPG Maps &#8211; RPPR Episode 209"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/158076317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2180\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2026\/05\/podcast-episode\/creating-better-rpg-maps-rppr-episode-209\/attachment\/17-rppr-ep209\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"17-rppr-ep209\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2180\" src=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Maps are an essential part of tabletop RPGs. Who doesn&#8217;t love poring over a campaign map or fighting a massive set piece battle on a custom battle map? I talked to Joe at Heroic Maps about RPG map making. I recently collaborated with Joe to make a Mothership scenario available on both of our Patreons as a free download. We talk about what makes for a good RPG map and how to avoid some mistakes when making your own map.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/158076317\">Check out The Oblivion Broadcast on Patreon!<\/a> There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com\/2026\/05\/genre\/horror\/mothership-the-oblivion-broadcast\/\">an actual play<\/a>, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XUeiJ1IYhsg\">video version that showcases the map.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/heroicmaps\">Heroic Maps<\/a> has a ton of maps available for download.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Creating Better RPG Maps &amp;#8211; RPPR Episode 209\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2026-05-18T13:58:48-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT33M06S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Maps are an essential part of tabletop RPGs. 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I recently collaborated with Joe to make a Mothership scenario available<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2026\/05\/podcast-episode\/creating-better-rpg-maps-rppr-episode-209\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,25],"tags":[440,668,304],"class_list":["entry","author-rpayton","post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-interview","category-podcast-episode","tag-interview","tag-maps","tag-ross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-rppr-ep209.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4gA-z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}