I’ve been creating content for D&D and sharing it online for quite some time now. When I first started I was inspired by a lot of the artists I had come across. Coming into contact with some of them over time, I started doing minor collaborations to create content together. Not just with other illustrative artists but also writers, developers, statwizards etc. In doing these I started looking for thinking of ways of making these collaborations easier and that’s where Dungeon Draw was born. A web platform where artists can very easily share work with other creators and users to build custom content together. Content they can have professionally produced/printed and sell it on site. By creating tools that split up the work (illustrations – card layout – stats – production – shipping) they could focus on their own art and keep creating instead of marketing.
 What’s also great about building tools like this is that anyone can use them to create their custom content. Use our card templates as a base, upload your own creatures or items *– or use art packs we have on-site*, fill in your own stats *– or use homebrew you find online*, name the cards and export digitally *- or have them professionally printed on demand*.
Building tools to make creating reference cards easy is the first step in this project. In order to showcase what we could do with this I teamed up with 4 other artists including PrintableHeroes, Paper Forge, ItsaDNDMonsterNow, Julio Bencid, James Perrett, putting together enough content for 6 decks with a total of 400 premade reference cards (both items and creatures). This is just the start though, once we launch and have built the tools we’ll be able to create hundreds more.
Having a platform like this, where we plan to combine custom content like creatures, maps, modules, etc. aims to make it possible to put together your own campaign packs of goodies. With options to have it digitally, print it yourself or have us print it professionally for you. If you’d like to know more about the first step in building this platform and would like to back it, I’d love for you to check out our Dungeon Draw Kickstarter HERE.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crossheadstudios/dungeon-draw
