Commission a Custom Map from Tiffany Munro, Map Artist at Feed the Multiverse!
I take commissions for custom maps and cartography for novels, TTRPG, board games and more! Find out more on this page about how you can get a custom map commission too!

What does it Cost?
That varies wildly! The ballpark I work in is $150 to as high as $3500 for some high end professional publishing. If you’re reading this, you’re probably on the 3 digit side. This page will help you clear up your questions before you email me.
My standard payment policy is that I send you an invoice via Paypal business or Stripe for 50% of the commission at the start, non-refundable, and 50% once it is completed to your satisfaction. Alternative arrangements may be made, such as direct bank transfer in Canada.
What Rights Do I Get if I Commission You?
My standard is that you get commercial reproduction rights for your project and I retain the right to use my commissioned art to promote myself. Rights are transferred when the commission is complete and you have paid for it in full.
Maps for Professional Publishing Industry or Business
Contact me for a custom no commitment quote. Your needs are likely to be more diverse and intense than the roleplaying game crowd. You have a contract and a budget already in mind.
So you want to commission a custom map for your Dungeons and Dragons campaign and you want to know how much it’ll cost.
It’s hard to give a traditional menu, unlike some art forms which are very predictable in production time, maps vary a ton in the amount of time, based on the scope of the project. A couple of styles are very predictable in production time, but for the most part, I find cartography commissions quite unpredictable. Sometimes they’re fast, sometimes they’re slow and extensively detailed.
Content in my portfolio as of writing cost anywhere between $50-$1000+. Maps range in complexity. If this is for a commercially published project, contact me for a quote, please. Info is in the popup, the sidebar, and there’s a form in the footer.
However, I understand those wondering have smaller projects for self published or private roleplaying games and you might want an idea of what you’re in for, so I’ve made a rough menu of the low-high range for artwork. It is subject to change. Prices subject to negotiation based on density, turnaround time, etc. The amount of custom elements created for your map and how fast you want it will impact the price. I’m willing to negotiate based on your budgetary needs, especially if it’s non-commercial and you’re not in a hurry. If you’re sponsoring the creation of a new Roll20 product, for example, I give a 50% discount.
Commission Custom Maps for Roleplaying Games, talking to you, DMs / GMs / LMs / Narrators and Storytellers
Hi, game masters! Your needs tend to be quite diverse depending on if you’re running a game and want flare versus you’re doing a Kickstarter for a custom module versus selling content on DM’s Guild, etc. Here’s a range of prices for kinds of content you folk request.
- Printer paper sized handout of regional map – $150-$400
- Medium poster or any small city, period – $250-$850
- Large poster printout or larger city – $300-1000
- It’s a real life location that can use OSM data – $150+
- Huge detailed full color painting with a ton of rendered out details, very large print size, highly complex custom piece – $500-$800
- Single location. We’re talking OSR battlemaps on a grid, black and white with little furnishing. $15-$75 per room–with some wiggle room for what’s considered a “room”. For example a prison cell block would be a room, not each cell. I created a hollowed out tree with four levels, each level was a “room”. If it’s a larger exterior layout, $50-$400. These are the cheapest maps I make.
- Battlemaps in color photobash / 3D looking art style: starts at $75.
- Space maps… I do love to do space maps but they’re so non-standard. Starts at $150 for vector and $50 for my simple DungeonDraft space scenes.
- A token – starts at $5 for something very easy, $20-$50 for something like a monster!
- Layout work! I do PDFs too. $5 per page for text only pages, $10 per page for pages with art that needs to be positioned, and $15 per page for pages with fancy tables and stuff. I use InDesign and Affinity Publisher depending on your needs.


Commission a Custom Map for Novels. Talking to you, Writers and Authors!
Writers! We love you here at Feed the Multiverse. I write novels too. Your maps are usually around the size of 6×9, one or two page spread. The price depends on if it’s one or two pages and if your map is only ink, or if you have a color version as well, how unusual the content is, if it’s a city or if it’s a region, and if you request hand-lettering versus a font.

Independent authors, this is what you can expect to pay to commission a custom map to go into your fantasy or other map-needing novel:
- 1 page for a novel, black and white region, continent or world map- $150-$350
- 1 page, black and white city or town- $250-$500 (low end=streets only, high end=isometric city)
- 1 page, black and white space map- $150-$300
- 2 page spread for a novel, black and white or parchment – $150-$800
Contact me specifically for anything else, such as chapter flare, illustrations for in-story, and maps that require more than a 1 or 2 page spread (fairly unlikely, but it has happened! Usually maps for a novel can be condensed into one or two page spreads however, and you can expect your quote to fit into that ballpark. I have some room to negotiate of course.)

Okay! I’m ready to commission you for a custom map! What now?
Okay! We’ll start with a no-obligation quote. You tell me about your project and I’ll respond with my interest and give you a more concrete quote.
You should tell me at minimum:
- the timeline you need this in
- the print size
- is it color or black and white
- is there a specific map of mine from my portfolio that you like for style?
- do you have another style inspiration
- do you have a sketch? If not, a written description is fine too!
I want to know more about commissioning a custom map!
Okay! Here is some more information that I sometimes get asked.
What currency do you charge in?
Any. I’m Canadian so I prefer to get CAD. I by default quote in USD since it’s more of a globally recognized standard, but if you let me know your region I will adapt my quote appropriately for Euros, Pounds, AUD, and more. If you are Canadian and pay via Interac E-Transfer in CAD, I give the Canadian Discount.
Why is commissioning a larger map more expensive?
They take a lot longer to produce. There’s more square inches to fill, either with more detail or with more things.
My rate for my work is $40 an hour, and while I will give you a quote that is a single digit based on the needs of your project, it will be based on how much time I estimate it to take. I do consider it reasonable to make a living wage from my work. I respect that not everyone has the budget for hundreds of dollars of map artwork, though!

Is there a Fee for Expediting Work?
These fees are based on your place in the queue. If you require a fast turnaround it is possible to bump in line (I am a one person operation and I always have several commissions already on the go). This will increase the price based on how fast you require the work. Work done on “my time” can always be haggled cheaper, so let me know if you’re not in a hurry and my quote will reflect that time I’ll have to mull over the direction and doodle this and scribble that and be otherwise a fussy pain in the tush with my artistic integrity and whatever.
Is there a Fee for Editing?
Some artists have an editing fee for when the commission is ongoing. I don’t, although I will renegotiate if a commission becomes much harder than expected. I will also charge less on the final invoice if yours turned out to be much easier of a commission than expected.
All commissions for custom maps include a reasonable number of edits. I have found when it comes to emails there is a fairly expected number of back and forths. If you request edits at the appropriate time in the workflow, there is no additional fee as it is part of the construction of the artwork.
Requesting edits to work that has already been approved, will be charged on an hourly basis. Major changes are permitted but may incur an additional fee which will be explained immediately, and not sprung upon you at the time of the invoice.
Requesting edits to the work long after it has been approved is generally permissible. I charge a small fee of $10 for text changes in this case and hourly for art alterations. Significant changes that would take hours of work will be discussed on a case-by-case basis as to the cost, though of course I am always happy to revise work. Mostly this has happened in the form of a client changing some place names, or an event occurring in one book, causing for example, a city to be replaced with a crater in the next book. I reserve the right to request a larger change fee depending on the work.
Usage Rights and Reuse for Custom Map Commissions
A decreased fee to commission the custom map can be arranged if you want to give up commercial rights and just use it privately, allowing me to resell it in any way I see fit in the future. Basically, you sponsor the creation of something that could become stock or RPG Virtual Tabletop assets in the future. It is about 50% off the price I would charge for a commercial use client. If this is not discussed explicitly at the time of commission it does not apply. If we do not talk about this you get the usual rights, use for any associated media around one project, and I retain my usual rights (In short: I don’t sell it, but I will use it to demonstrate my skill).
Commissioning art gets you the right to use the map in anything associated with the specific project you’re using it in, and I retain the right to display the art as part of my portfolio and demonstrate my skills. If you wish to use it for something other than the series you’ve initially attached the map to, I have a small reuse fee of $20.
This is generally unlikely to apply. You can put the same map into any successive books in a series, but there is a small fee for minor edits for changes in the timeframe. You can use the map to promote your book, give it away for free in a newsletter or social media page promoting that project. But say, 20 years down the road you decide to make an RPG module and use the map in there too, you would pay the reuse fee.
If you are a Game Master and you commission a map to use as a basis on which you run a game, yes, you have permission to use a map you commission from me in any future game you run. The fee does not apply to you, whether or not you are a for-pay DM. What it would apply to is if you decided 20 years down the road to write a novel and use the map as part of your novel. “You running a game” is the associated project.
I Commissioned You and Haven’t Heard Back Yet
You should email me something like, “Hey, send me an update on this project!” instead of reading my website. I usually answer within 24 hours. It’s okay, you’re not bugging me, please email me as much as you want.
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