# Evocative Battlemaps for a grimdark game?

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**Created:** [June 29, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/evocative-battlemaps-for-a-grimdark-game/536 "2023-06-29T11:27:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![bryansmiff](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/bryansmiff/32/111_2.png) [@bryansmiff](https://forums.hexed.press/u/bryansmiff)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/evocative-battlemaps-for-a-grimdark-game/536/1 "2023-06-29T11:27:16Z")

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Messed around with broken/warped grids on top of textures to get a “evocative” battlemap.  
Not exact 1”x1” grids at all, but could work for a dream sequence or some maddening underground areas.

 ![image](https://forums.hexed.press/uploads/default/original/1X/f58bee9e674a8ca2e74dfd34b6d92bc67261aab8.jpeg)  
 ![image](https://forums.hexed.press/uploads/default/original/1X/0271696eed9e12bd4034762ba8a926277bf6f7f4.jpeg)  
 ![image](https://forums.hexed.press/uploads/default/original/1X/b4721288a869d2991cad2aad723cb6e42ab5d04a.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/todd/32/8_2.png) [@Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Todd)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/evocative-battlemaps-for-a-grimdark-game/536/2 "2023-06-29T13:48:31Z")

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They definitely evoke a creepy atmosphere! It might be an issue actually using them in a VTT (if that’s the intention) because the grids are warped. What was your inspiration? The first one reminds me of a tattoo on an arm-- perfect for those fights on top of dead giants or smaller gods!

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**Author:** ![bryansmiff](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/bryansmiff/32/111_2.png) [@bryansmiff](https://forums.hexed.press/u/bryansmiff)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/evocative-battlemaps-for-a-grimdark-game/536/3 "2023-06-29T13:59:43Z")

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right - they definitely are warped on purpose, mostly to apply a “loose” idea of a grid.  
I liked that they began to evoke spiderwebs and maybe rebar/fencing casting shadows or something.  
Inspiration was just playing around with some texture brushes and thought the bottom image looked like a map of a creepy lake or something for a horror game.

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**Author:** ![Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/todd/32/8_2.png) [@Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Todd)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/evocative-battlemaps-for-a-grimdark-game/536/4 "2023-06-29T15:01:30Z")

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> [@bryansmiff](#):
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> the bottom image looked like a map of a creepy lake or something for a horror game.

It does! I wonder what it would look like if you overlayed hexes and maybe some symbols to turn it into a horror hexcrawl! 😆