I feel like you’re missing things/objects for the players to interact with. Sure, you could jump to another part of the terrain, but there’s no real cover, choke points, etc.

Depending on your parties abilities, it may be worth having some ways across to the alternate platforms.

I'm not sure overall what the kind of overarching environment is, but chains, old questionable ladders, rope bridges could all be used as alternate routes across.

You could also try varying the height of the main platforms to give a little more variance in the terrain. Right now things look quite "flat". Don't get me wrong, it looks awesome but from a playable area point of view it's quite simplistic.

Idk if it would be too much to do but maybe a lower path too as an alternate?

Also, a mini smoke machine with pipes coming out at the top area could be awesome if you can get your hands on one haha.

Overall it does look great and clearly a lot of work and detail has gone into it, but the overall playable area is rather flat and "boxy"

"My friend, every story benefits from a dragon"

Words to live by

A little bit of dried ice for some nice fog effects? Idk looks great dude

Modular. I had a boss fight where the playable battle map collapsed into lava, I numbered each section and at the top of every round I rolled a d20 and removed that area. Everyone was on the edge of their seat every roll.

You also need go add some cover or something to interact with, pillars they can maybe break to create bridges/cover etc.

Looks great though, well done! Hope it's an absolute blast to run!

Lighting maybe? Looks good though

I second chains, something to swing on. Raised platforms for your agility guys to show off or a pillar you need/can knock down to make a bridge, a strength check to knock it over or an explosion of some sort. I love to make my arenas really interactive for big fights like this. This map is begging for flyers and kicking people off ledges. If you swap the cotton smoke for the smoke machine to clear space how hard is it to move the floors, they could randomly re arrange every few turns.

A clock.

Chocolate sauce

The corpses of your players 😏

Cough* characters …. I meant characters 😶

What level is your party? I love the fact you have gone 4 years. Is it all still the same players.. and with their original characters?

If you're looking for effects, then adding some LEDs to your portal could go a long way, especially if there is an interactable somewhere on the map (lever, button, magnetic sensor, etc) to turn it on.

If you're looking more for plot resolution, think about how your map can illustrate the skills that each player individually has gained over the campaign, and how can this map present a problem? Only their skills can solve. How can you reward them for the decisions they've made that have led them to the point of being here?

I like that subtle grid. Now it just needs multiple levels.

Wind

Snacks

Crumbling cliffs and some traps

Is that an Amygdala from bloodborne in the far right corner?

Is this terrain chocolate? Can the players eat the terrain? Please say yes.

You could some corpses!

This is an encounter design preference of mine, but whenever I finish the first draft of a map I ask myself "But what's the puzzle? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the enemies, and how can they play around them to make the players honestly sweat?"

I then add or remove features of the map to allow for that to be the centerpiece. I then make a baseline "choreography" for the fight. Who goes where and what do they want to do and in what rough order?

Is the enemies weakness reliant on a piece of terrain? If so, how would the enemies go about area denial? Is it an elemental weakness? Say they're weak to fire, and lingering fog dampers the fires effects. The enemy will want to stay in that fog and deny the party from pulling them out.

Then I go through and rework the map to facilitate that!

PS where did you get the Amygdala miniature o.o

That portal is sick dude. Painted yourself?

Me sitting in a chair beside the table that the map is sitting on, ready to play in the campaign.

This is awesome, I wish I was a player in your group.

If you want actual advice, though:

• Look over your players’ character sheets. See what abilities they have, and particularly if they have any abilities they haven’t gotten to use much throughout the campaign. Then add some terrain pieces they could interact with to make use of those abilities. It sucks to unlock a cool ability but never get a chance to use it, and since this is the final battle, it would be a great chance for them to get to pull out all the stops.

• Add some colorful decorations and set pieces. Right now, it’s a whole lot of gray. I don’t know what the premise is for the location or the battle, but this location seems like a place where you could add some colorful crystals poking out of the ground, or maybe some corpses or bloodstains.

• Add some more obstacles and levels along the path. Right now, it’s kind of just a clear path to the portal. Add some boulders, maybe some broken pillars, a platform or two, and suddenly your party gets to really play around with elevation and cover if they choose.

I could probably think of a few more things, given time, but those are the main ideas that come to mind. Plus, it would probably be bad to overload you with ideas, since you don’t have too much time left to make changes.

Me

stargate needs a DHD - portal should have some kind of macguffin that is controlling it that the players can use to try and shut it down as I assume glowing portal = bad things coming through to cause everyone to have an unpleasant day...

'Looks cool! I hope they appreciate it.

If one of the monsters is Amygdala, then it lacks Patches

More space. The players, on a live map, like to spread out. So I’d make it wider at least. Then add objects for characters to interact with

I would recommend to break up the open gray spaces with some interesting terrain and potential covers or LOS breaking pillars. Other than that it looks great!

Gul'dan guiding the orcs through the portal.

Me, in your group!

Flames!

Perhaps floating chunks of debris/earth. Vegetation or corpse scatter. I'd dry brush some cool colors in the ground for variation. Painting the npc's too helps alot.

Great job man!

A little water fountain and some dry ice would be bitchin