I like maps..

I like how at peace they make me. I ain't even that good at making them, none are to scale. I'd say that I don't make them to scale because I'd like the DM to decided that, you know it can be fluid, I don't want to restrict anyone's experience because the room is too small to hammer throw  a relatively large cat (which is secretly a druid )... But it's probably really just because of my sense of scale and distance is super sucky. 

Anyway... I like to draw mostly small settlement maps and caves, occasionally inns. I prefer to draw caves as they are really easy and so many motives can be constructed around them; perhaps it was an old disused mine that has been inhabited by goblins... Maybe it was carved out by the sea a millennia ago and has been recently taken back by the sea due to unnatural floods that has lead it to be inhabited by cannibalistic merfolk. I just came up with that last one just now, SEE SO MUCH POSSIBILITY. 

This cave, what is it? I hear you cry (relax I can't actually hear you).

It is a SMUGGLERS DEN/ hideout. 

"It is a tiny hidy-hole in the rocky dales obscured by several jagged outcrops. It has been used as a hideout for several notorious bandits ranging from thieves to merciless rebels and murders. In recent years it has been used to store outlawed items to soon be smuggled beyond the borders of the realm." 

Now I just write area descriptors and make it cool. Populate it with awesome crap like idk... *thinks*... a man who has been cursed to have a snake as an arm or something slightly more believable like a goblet that is constantly filled with the most delicious water. 

ANYWAYS I just realised I just realised I've never made a post here and pulled this post out of nowhere. Check out my stuff, any feedback is welcome. Probably write this one up in the coming few days.