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Sneak Peek Trailer | Winter's Grasp: Barovia Reimagined
🕑 Added 2024-06-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
Hello everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! I am SUPER excited to bring you this next map teaser trailer for my newest project: "Winter's Grasp: Barovia Reiminaged."
Once per month, I will be going back and updating my previous CoS / Dark Fantasy maps and creating a full set of snowy versions for each of them. This means a snowy Village of Barovia, snowy Argnvostholt, snowy Bonegrinder, and even a frost-covered castle, Ravenloft!
Even though these are existing maps, I'll give each location a frosty overhaul and create versions with fog and windy snow weather effects.
Additionally, each set of maps will contain three colors and moods:
Chilly Day
Night
Gloom
Though they take less time to create as I'm not building them from scratch, I am retexturing each map, adding all of the snow and frost elements, and applying my color work in Photoshop. I will also make each map a little softer in feel to give it a snow-covered vibe.
I've received many requests for certain maps to have snowy versions, which got me thinking, "What if all of Barovia was covered in snow?". I could not imagine a harsher climate to fight vampires and other undead beasts in!
For the first set of maps released on Monday, I will be releasing the following:
Gates of Barovia
Death House
Old Road Encounters
I hope you enjoy this trailer and these new dedicated snowy maps, and I hope this gives you a new, unique way challenge to introduce to your players!
Cheers,
DM Andy
Comments
Andy D'Amato
So happy to hear this!! The thought of a snow-covered Barovia has made me want to make these changes in my own game as well. Dark mist covered Barovia is one thing... adding freezing snow adds a whole new element of horror!
Mr. Gwynplaine
This will be perfect for the changes ive made to my Barovia. I'm so excited to see what's coming
Andy D'Amato
I'm so happy to hear that!! I've always loved snowy horror and the theme just fits so well! Happy to hear you're excited.
Andy D'Amato
Oh no way!! That's so perfect!! Eventually I'll have snowy maps for everything so you'll be able to run a full CoS run in the snow. I just love the brutality of winter and the contrast between the white snow and drips of steamy blood from the black wolf staring at the party.
Dandec
Oh man, so excited! The Barovia in my campaign is in the early stages of winter, so the timing of this is PERFECT <3
Blue_Bean
Perfect! I was just getting started telling my party that an unusual winter is coming.
Andy D'Amato
That's really exciting to hear that! I love the idea of what Barovia might look like after Strahd's demise.
NotALeaf
Oh this is exciting! I used your CoS maps almost exclusively during my campaign, and plan to have my players new character revisit Barovia 20 years after that event. Would be a cool way to show off the same areas with a different feel
Andy D'Amato
Whoa!! I love that idea—how thematic!! Eventually, I'll have everything covered in snow, including all my Village of Barovia maps and the new Vallaki maps, once I start updating those. Imagine a frozen Bonegrinder with icicles handing off the tattered sails of the windmill.
Andy D'Amato
Awesome!! Are you doing a snowy CoS campaign? Or something else?
Heleo
I’m excited to see them. I’ve been having it snow wherever viktor goes in my game (he’s taken a deal with a certain vestige) and this helps perfectly with that. Keep up the amazing work
vvulfmann
Awesome! Just in time for the campaign I'm running :D
