Pirate Princes of Sartosa - Campaign Map!

Check out the final Pirate Princes of Sartosa campaign map, which will be in the book as a two-page spread!

I'm now shooting for a final PDF of version 1.0 to be available before October. I've been making great strides with the remainder of the writing lately, which has been super fun. I started a new job recently and fully expected my progress on Sartosa to slow to a crawl, but with the release of Age of Sigmar, I'm more fired up than ever to finish the campaign.

Age of Sigmar is, for me, a very disappointing development for many reasons. I won't add to the internet chatter with a rant of my own, but I will say that I will be continuing to play Warhammer Fantasy Battles 8th edition and will not be playing Age of Sigmar or make Age of Sigmar content.

With this commitment to 8th edition, I really want to get the campaign finished as soon as possible so that others who are sticking with 8th can have new content and a fun campaign to get their friends into the hobby or campaigning, which has always been the aim of my Warhammer Fantasy content efforts, so business as usual.

Now, back to the map. If you're curious about how the campaign will work, players will move their warbands around the map, on land and by sea, and explore points of interest. The points of interest are marked on the map with numbers (1-15). Two of these are Special Campaign Character shops (1, 4) where you will be able to hire unique lord-level heroes using campaign currency.

The remaining points of interest contain quests that reward you with a Character Slot Item (using the same system as Conquest of Lustria), or a Special Campaign Character when completed. That's it for now! I will make a post showing how quests work sometime soon.

I also want to thank all the people who have sent me email messages. These are always super cool to get and the questions and anticipation for Sartosa have really encouraged me to continue working on the campaign so thank you! 

Pirate Princes of Sartosa Campaign Map Preview 2

I previewed the layout of the campaign map for Pirate Princes back in February, and talked about using elements of the Dreadfleet game. The plan is still in motion and I'm here to show how it's coming along! It's a pretty big part of the project (and super fun!) - I expect to be done with it next week. Part of it is in the shade in the picture so excuse the poor photography, but it is really bright and I'm excited!

UPDATE: Check out the finished map here!

an illustrated map of Sartosa. The volcano, Mount Ertinia, will be the
quest location of the first expansion content after the PDF is available.

Pirate Princes of Sartosa Campaign Map Preview

It's a beautiful Saturday morning here in southern California, and I'm just hung over enough to make staring at a computer screen painful so I worked on this preliminary mock-up of the map for Sartosa.

This was just to see if I had enough Mighty Empires tiles to get the job done and get an idea for how the cities, ports, and other landmarks relate to each other spatially. So far so good!

I'm super excited to work on this map because it's going to be a really fun project and I have some big ideas for the final product, including cannibalizing an entire box of Dreadfleet for all it's little rocks and other mini-terrain.

my dremel is ready.

An added bonus is that once I have absolutely destroyed the contents of the Dreadfleet game, the ships will be great race-specific counters for the campaign, since there is a travel by ship mechanic that can be used to get around the island!

Conquest of Lustria Campaign Map

Here's a blank campaign map that play groups can use to set up their campaigns. :)
                               
             

Update - a map is now included in the PDF.