How to Draw Your Own D&D Town Map!

[@adamtomlinson918]

I'm obviously a long time late on this video but I was amazed at how "professional" those 2 little shades made this map look.

[@michealbohmer2871]

Suggestion: once you've inked the map, scan it in to the computer. That way you can print it out and colour the printed version so you don't mess up the original. Then, if you make a mistake, you can just reprint the map and re-colour.

[@DBKING04020]

Tarakona Tohu is a small traditional fruit farm that has been tended by the Stanier family for nearly 390 years. The 122 acre orchard is set in the south eastern corner of the rolling Herefordshire countryside, near Ledbury, close to the Malvern Hills.

[@RaVirrTheTrader]

You and Map Crow need to work together. You're both talented and incredibly imaginative. Beautiful work, as always.

[@JPCoovert]

I'm a big fan of Kyle's :)

[@rexsamodio6404]

​@@JPCoovertgd am pm from southern quezon province philippines 🇵🇭 and my religion is INC 🇮🇹

[@WCPFISH]

amazing work....asking for next map....a church, a bell tower, a wizard's tower, maybe a whole tutorial on how to do individual buildings and make them stand out?

[@BhelliomRahl]

Great town map, the only thing missing was a Cider Mill, if you have the best apples in the world you need to make some Apple Cider. Would also be a potential trade commodity. Love your tutorials, really are informative.

[@JPCoovert]

It's right there on the river ;)

[@meghan9096]

I think it would be fun to name the town something to do with the name of the apples, If you've got a name for the apples already. If not I'd suggest something like Starbite Apples and then you could have some cool folklore surrounding the grove popping up after a fallen star crashed nearby and that being where the apples came from. Then you could call the town something like Starfaln or something. This was a fun little train of thought, I hope you get a kick out of reading this at the very least! Edit: The star could have fallen in like the river and changed the water in the area and made the apples grow with a cool colouring and maybe some fun magic properties! Okay I need to stop I'm having far too much fun building this up and it's not even my Town!

[@JPCoovert]

Love it! That is literally the story of my homebrew city called Port Vela

[@michealbohmer2871]

There's a town on the Queensland border (the state in Australia in which I live) that has apples as it's primary industry. The town is called Applethorpe.

[@stianthijsen4784]

Brilliant Fantasy Story ❤

[@josephmartin2536]

Town name possiblity: Pyrus Malus or Pyrumalis. Loved this video and how you went through the thought process as well as the drawing process.

[@josef-c-6126]

Thanks for the great content, that you are making. This hand-draw maps, get me back nice memories, when I was younger and tried to program a rpg games. Based on the gothic world, I have draw a lot of maps, plans, stories, characters. Never finished it, ended up in dreams, mostly because of over scope of those projects, but this video reminds me a lot.

[@theeverythingchannel9786]

to come up with a town name randomly choose words from other languages and mix them together. the languages can either D&D based languages or real life languages. you can also chop up words and rearrange them to create new names. assigning numbers to word, languages, and syllables, and rolling a dice is a great way to create something interesting and unique for an adventure

[@SkaterChan]

Serpentine Grove, Fort Sunther (keeping the name of when it was a military fort/town), Dotan Riverfront, Delicious Ruby (or some sort of red jewel that signifies the apples, and since it's a dragon protecting them), that's all I can think of haha. Words like Orchard, Old, Fort, Valley, River, Hill, and Treasure kept popping in my head

[@oiai2062]

SkaterChan Dang those are really good I was going to try and come up with one but if he picked a comment it would probably be yours!

[@SkaterChan]

@@oiai2062 thanks jack :)

[@harperhowe2461]

Serpent Orchard, Apple Valley, Orchard Valley, Dragon Orchard, Appleburg.

[@harperhowe2461]

@Ali Leonidas thats epic

[@crapphone7744]

At first I thought a dragon eating apples was kind of, well odd. Then I remembered the apatosaurus, the largest animal ever which was a herbivore. Kudos for you for thinking outside the box. I think on some level of also makes your new town kid friendly, which is great for dads who want to teach their kids d&d.

[@algilbert93]

Cool Dragon Name + stead(place) or halden(hillside) or wald(forrest) or ach(river) or just google "German Toponymy" and look at the suffixes. Arthakstead, Lurhalden, Bayathwald, Naxumach

[@jrpipik]

A couple thoughts. You might try varying the size of tree outlines. It's hard to suggest different types of trees in this style, but using different sizes at least suggests variety (and makes things like orchards where all the trees are the same size stand out). Remember that where you draw shadows suggests the position of the sun. If the shadows are in the southeast, the sun is to the north and your town is going to be in the southern hemisphere, which may be important in world building.

[@draft_fusion]

15:30 clearly used different sizes in this overview shots

[@TruErepo]

found this so late but man have these videos helped advance my maps

[@JulieHiltbrunner]

Just love your excitement and positivity!

[@hitmonkhan]

Great video and great Intro! A name I have for the town could be: Drakenvoss. It roughly translates from Icelandic to mean Dragon's waterfall. Perhaps the town is near this massive waterfall from the mountains where the dragon keeps his true lair and hoard.

[@mvs109]

In Dutch is would mean Dragon Fox (voss -> vos = fox)

[@arnior8365]

Drekafoss would be the correct translation - although Drakenvoss sounds great!

[@ProfBoggs]

Muffins! The dragon wants muffins. When I was a kid there was a book called _The Muffin Dragon_, IIRC. The dragon initially extorted the baker for all the muffins. After the baker went broke, then the dragon worked out a deal where it provided heat for the ovens. As an adult, it seemed like an underwear gnomes situation, but as a kid I loved it.

[@phoriak]

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[@christinabrock2893]

Dragonsapple, Dracopomme, Fruitville, Applewyrm, Springblossom, Dragon's Larder, Windlord's Keep

[@kimling5011]

School of magic, Fire House, Hospital,, Adventure Guild buildings

[@constellationjoker9631]

Names for town: Granny Smites, Red Draglicious, McIntalon, Golden Draglicious, Braeburning, and Fang Fruit (not an apple pun but I like)

[@jaydenniehaus5127]

Best time of the day is when I see Jp has uploaded a video

[@oiai2062]

I just started playing D&D and it’s amazing!

[@JPCoovert]

Yessss!!!!

[@blueemoji389]

Reodfalls, Winterfrost, Sedroct, Demlok, Haedtrok, Seqwastt, Orund, Hestorm, and Astrogonim are names for towns or cities I came up with.

[@g-max1808]

My own Fantasy town maps would be for a 2d Web Film called Dragon Worship. Thanks for this video BTW

[@charliebronson6038]

a dragon greedy for apples... what a wonderful concept...

[@vicster1981]

Great video, I don’t play D&D, I just love drawing maps.

[@TheGallicWitch]

I'm so glad I found your channel! I'm trying to make a city map for my fantasy book and I'm struggling to design a major element for the city. My people in this country are all tree-dwellers, they live up in the trees with platforms and bridges drawn in between. How would you translate a home-tree from a top-view? A tree with a spiralling staircase around the truck that leads into the platforms and the bridges?

[@JPCoovert]

Look up “tree city dnd map” and you see some good examples!

[@gustavoguaresi8698]

I just love your videos about drawing maps! You're a inspiration to me to improving my future games, i hope more people see what you are doing. Oh, for town's name, how about Edens garden...?

[@FrancescoPaggiaro]

Love the story you built behind the map, about the dragon that for treasure and gold keep secure the town 😁 very inspiring

[@imasfatimah9650]

If you just curious about how to draw skip into 5:08

[@ericmaher4756]

It IS really cool. I like how it’s simply elegant and accessible. Thanks

[@hyberias248]

This one is pure gold! Never smashed a subscribe button that fast.

[@cynth7616]

The town should be called Idun for the Norse Goddess Idun. Keeper of the Apples of Immortality.

[@JPCoovert]

I like it!

[@PrehistoricLizard]

The map looks fantastic. Those markers made a huge difference.

[@grinningtaverngaming395]

Fort Chamkar Chamkar is orchard in the Khmer language. I often get stuck for names so I go looking for the equivalent in other languages 😉

[@teathomas]

This is an older video, but a few of these map videos, this one especially, inspired me recently to try it for my next game. I’m really struggling, not so much with the drawing of houses and trees, but with figuring out where to place them and factoring in like, hills. I just can’t seem to do hills and I don’t know how close a house can be to a river. So many things just look awkward due to placement alone ☹️ still having fun doing it.

[@JPCoovert]

Glad you're having fun! Definitely start with pencil so you can erase and move things around. It's great you can tell what feels awkward, now it's just a matter of changing it until it doesn't anymore ;)

[@annysui]

I just wanted to say thank you for the great tutorials. I love your positive and inspiring way.

[@gstaff1234]

Found your channel through Reddit. Great intro, necessary convictions, and then wonderful process to showcase.

[@wordsofjed]

Some name ideas: Drappleton, Afaldraig (Welsh for "Apple Dragon"), or maybe Tarakapu (a portmanteau of the Samoan words for "apple dragon") Also, good on you for putting that statement at the top of the video.

[@wordsofjed]

Or if it's a gold dragon: Golden Delicious!

[@wordsofjed]

Apparently there's an apple variety called Gravenstein!

[@Dtgray12]

So glad I found your channel! I've been looking for tips for RPG map drawings.

[@mathieu7921]

Here's a list of words that gets me thinking about a riverside town that grows apples. Red, Scarlett, Crimson, Ruby, Vermillion Ford, Stream, River, Bank, Crossing, Brook, Creek Orchard, Garden, Grove, Yard Apple, fruit Town, burg, ville, ton Somehow I like Ruby Grove and Rubyford best followed by Crimson Creek. The Ruby names evoke the value of the apples for the townsfolk, it could also recall the color of the dragon or its fiery breath. With that said, I really like how Crimson Creek rolls off the tongue. Lastly, Applefort is also simple and evocative and many places where named as such.

[@johnleach8553]

Good on you for standing up and speaking out on your platform. Also for deciding to act in this world. Love your videos too. Fight the good fight!

[@prof.picklepie8007]

Always love having new ways to make town maps!

[@bnb3394]

I see these all over instagram and I wonder how do they make these, thanks for video. Very informative

[@llaghomotorolo7738]

Cider Breeze. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THANX

[@crochetwolf9199]

As a dragon is Lord the apple can be gemstone apples and village be called gemapple orchards

[@kazuha5077]

Wow so inspiring I have never played d&d but now I really want to

[@JPCoovert]

It's fun! You should try it!!!

[@anymahlsevynn4209]

thanks for the tips, just got my dungeon master's guide delivered today, starting the game in a few weeks

[@JPCoovert]

Awesome!!!! Have fun!

[@anymahlsevynn4209]

@@JPCoovert dragon's breath could be a cool name for an inn

[@tategilmore3665]

THIS IS AMIZING stuff JP!! When will you be doing that character drawing creation video I'm eager for that to come out. But all things considered you are doing an amazing job love your videos.

[@JPCoovert]

Soon! It's on the list!

[@tategilmore3665]

IM SO HYPED

[@annelalonde3991]

What a beautiful map! Looking forward to watching more of your videos, thanks so much.

[@tategilmore3665]

In the lands to the east a small town by spanking over a dark river. A dark Shady Town guarded by the Mystical Dragon mordu that protects the small town from raids of goblins and Orcs. The small town of DRAGON HALLOW has been known for its rare Enchanted apples.

[@gregorymurphey2115]

Great video. It is super important to use any public platform to speek out against injustice. Also your map is awesome and inspiring

[@ErSiMi]

This looks phenomenal! You've inspired me to make my own maps for our campaign, but one question...What kind of paper do you use?

[@JPCoovert]

With markers, smooth Bristol board. Type of paper only matters for the tools your using.

[@SirRumplesTotolem]

I would name it Rödpärlastad, I usually look for a foreign language me or my players do not speak and translate a few words looking for something that sounds cool. In this case Red Gem Town translated to swedish :D Idk is a trick I usually follow because i get stuck at naming things sometimes

[@JPCoovert]

That's awesome! I had a DM that does that... only problem was half the time we couldn't pronounce stuff clearly :P

[@Neph0423]

I came here to get tips to draw towns. I clicked like during the intro. That is something that shouldn't need to be said in 2020 but the world is still backwards. Oklahoma Football head coach Lincoln Riley said it best in my opinion, "All lives won't matter until Black Lives do too."

[@cooperking2665]

Adam Janssen black lives DO matter and people still complain about things like this, yes its horrible to kill anyone because of the color of their skin or really its horrible to kill anyone period but some people are honestly looking for something to get “oppressed” by because then people treat them like the best thing that ever happened in the world

[@forsaken22]

Now reading this 2 years later in hindsight is wow I have a playlist called peaceful protest you should watch

[@TheRobe-]

It’s really a shame that BLM essentially became a terrorist organization that destroyed their own areas and then stole all that money from people who just wanted to see change and spent it on mansions and massive parties. Those areas are worse now then ever. Also that was a stupid quote by that coach. “All lives matter” includes black lives.

[@gstaff1234]

JP how do you consider scale for the buildings? Seems easier with the Cavern or Hideout, but here I seem to be having trouble

[@JPCoovert]

That is tricky! In this case, I think the fort/castle is probably too small and the apple trees too big. I think it's really all about the relationship between stuff. So in the planning phase, figuring out how big trees are or any other sort of natural element can help you determine how big the buildings should be in relation.

[@Tysto]

That’s a great village of about 100 people. I like the orchards. But there should be about 1000 acres of fields, like, really close by, not random trees.

[@yahmfyeet3518]

Hey jp. Haven’t watched the video yet but I already liked because I know it’s gonna be awesome 😎.

[@NefliteArts]

Is that book mentioned at the beginning good for worldbuilding in general, even non-DnD worlds? :) Awesome and helpful video :3

[@JPCoovert]

The Dungeon Master's Guide? Probably not worth it. There is only a small section of the book about world building.

[@umbreyond2118]

I was looking to find a way to draw a map of a real life location and this kind of helps

[@christopherscheller1404]

I heard a good town name earlier. You could call the town Highspire

[@Josh-ii8ix]

I know it's years late, but I propose "Bogley's Dart"

[@D4ddi0G4m3r]

This is sick. Going to try this technique for sure.

[@atkmonkey]

Wyrmhaven. It refers to both the dragon and the worms in the apples. My son likes Appleton.

[@CastleBricks]

Hi 👋🏻 What about "Golden Apple Keep" for the town-name ? 🤔😊

[@CastleBricks]

Du you have a PDF-copy of the map ? 😊

[@JPCoovert]

@@CastleBricks Nope! This video is to encourage you to make your own!

[@CastleBricks]

@@JPCoovert It's okay 😊

[@pointonepointtwo7045]

Could you go over how you scan and clean up your maps in a tutorial? I'm having trouble removing the blue lines, and can't for the life of me find a tutorial on this exact issue. It's probably something like "how to remove artefacts" or something but I was wondering if there is an easier way of going about it.

[@JPCoovert]

I scan at 600 dpi (300 for color.) There are several ways of getting rid of the blue lines. I usually just adjust the levels (Image>Adjustments>Levles) in Photoshop. Try looking up "removing non-photo blue" for whatever program you use. Good luck!

[@ppowell2020]

Fantastic video! Here are a few I thought of Blossom Breeze Valley, Pitsville, Cobbler Creek, Sleepy Orchard. I am curious as to the size, weight, and brand of paper you are using? It works well with the markers! Much appreciated!

[@JPCoovert]

Thanks! The paper is just white printer paper that is a tiny bit thicker than regular. Not cover stock level, but not super thin either. Cheap stuff, nothing fancy.

[@TheThanyou]

I don't know how to say how much I'm thanking you! ❤️❤️ Beautiful mao

[@theadventuresguild6514]

Can you do a video on a larger-scale city, with walls and distinct districts?

[@JPCoovert]

Already done one like that! Scroll back thru the channel and you'll find it ;)

[@auroraspills326]

Thanks I used this for school 😀

[@TheTekKo10]

May I ask if these grey pens are special slow drying pens? Because I have the problem that with all the pens I could find i draw darker when I overlap the strokes. Did I do something wrong?

[@JPCoovert]

Yeah, alcohol markers can be tricky like that. I recommend looking up some copic tutorial videos, they’ll be able to help more than I can!

[@X.davidWilliams]

Beulisunberg , after the last remaining adventurer of Kessler's companions. A half-elf named Beulah Sun, the partys Bard. Who talked the dragon into the position it holds now after watching all of her party die gruesome deaths. Talk about a nice time for a natural twenty to get rolled.

[@maxcastillo7897]

Great video man, very very helpful. My players will be very happy. :) keep it going

[@coreylemoine4920]

Just found this video. I didn’t know you or the quality of your content, but I am 1 minute in and I want to thank you for taking a stand for justice. You didn’t have to do it, but you did.

[@smansam]

Another awesome video JP! Really love watching your method and talent on display. I NEEEEED THAT COPIC MARKER 🤯. And thank you for saying something about BLM! You’re the best dude!

[@CONTINGENCY_sys]

And here is where DRAGONTOWN became more than just an idea. Happy thoughts of the imagination.

[@shinom0ri]

Really cool!

[@HernanJalabert]

Awesome work, can You tell me what paper You use and the name of that markers? Sry for My English.

[@JPCoovert]

Just regular old copy paper, nothing special. Paper Mate Flair and Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens :)

[@designed4freedom]

Town Names? How about Dank River Crossing. As in: this map is literally that. ... 😂👌🔥🔥🔥 Love it.

[@lucasmallmann2162]

Amazing job! Wanna try. Could you wright down the pens you used?

[@JPCoovert]

I suggest Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens in various sizes. And I'm using a Copic Sketch marker for the gray. C3 is the color.

[@gustavpopcorn1487]

Errr maybe dragons hill or fire stone or appels c astle

[@smansam]

Oh! Forgot to suggest a name! How about Dragons Delect? Or if the dragon has a name, ______’s Delect? I am a huge user of alliteration in my maps 🤣 So used for a dragon name generator, something like Delbarro’s Delect? Before the apples were brought up I was thinking Dragons Meet, which would be like a double meaning, the people there meet the dragon for disputes but it also means the townfolk are just meatbags to him 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@sydneytheobald979]

Holy shit, well done.

[@raginivallabh8892]

It is exactly same as village 😍

[@sandybodo78]

Sacrumus Sacrum means sacred in Latin

[@zekedixon2969]

JP Coovert u should help me with a map of different areas and can u see if u can help me with it plz and thank u and i like ur videos im from south dakota and i like to draw and write books and listen to music and i like to watch ur videos and i like to see wht u do in the next video

[@cazkiwinz4300]

This is so cool! Very inspiring, thanks for sharing!

[@THEVLOGCENTRAL104]

For the towns name it would be cool to name it “lichen Light”

[@Gamarishi]

Nice to see you standing up for ths fight! Hey, man, nice map! What about some pixel city map someday?

[@mcdoggie100]

Pink Lady Ville, Or Elstaria, Golden delicionia, Fuji, Granny Smithiona

[@corydawson9215]

Draconia could be the name of your town since it is protected by a dragon. I want to ask a question how can I fight American civil war soldiers into a medieval fantasy setting?.

[@benjaminbriney5248]

I think Dracore would work.

[@bwydro]

i name thee Applejacksonville 🙂

[@tonyt6391]

Be cool if you would maybe make up an Amazon shop or with list that would have all the pens and such you use a lot of. Would be great to grab some of the things you use.

[@JPCoovert]

Good idea! I will link the tools in future videos!

[@jinanshtheexplorer]

I think this should be named appleville 😊

[@brandonensing7795]

The Queen’s Orchard, with the queen being the dragon?

[@ArtiSingh-fl9wg]

11:48 who thought of minecraft

[@katiedolfie4403]

This is soooo cool I can not wait to see more -Lincoln