[Sandbox] Show me your wilderness areas

LordVreeg · November 22, 2010, 11:37:19 AM

Really, really impressive...

Benoist · November 22, 2010, 11:59:40 AM

Yes. Dirk is doing some awesome work.

Dirk Remmecke · November 22, 2010, 12:01:25 PM

Thanks, all!

Quote from: danbuter;419006If you have good scans of the Darlene-style FR maps, there are a LOT of people who would love to get a copy.

I am not too sure about that...
First, they don't show the proper Realms but a severely modified version of it.
So a FR DM can't port his campaign over by saying, "we use those maps from
now on".
Second, it was my first try of adapting Darlene's style and the maps don't hold
up to scrutiny. In the end I didn't like them enough to actually start the campaign.
I shelved them and started the Gralfsee map instead. (The geography of that
setting made more sense, it didn't seem like a random sprinkling of terrain
features as with Faerun. Also, I had developed my own map style by that time,
with only the lettering as a reminder/homage to Greyhawk.)
Third... I don't have access to a scanner.

Benoist · November 22, 2010, 12:04:29 PM

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;419030Third... I don't have access to a scanner.

You suck!

Dirk Remmecke · November 22, 2010, 12:51:23 PM

Quote from: Benoist;419032You suck!

I guess I could get access - but I'd rather do that for something I am really 100% behind.

Here is another one - a small-scale setting that I created as backdrop for adventures in
Mondbuchstaben, the newsletter that I published for customers of the game store I owned
from 1997-2003. (Beware - Google Translate gibberish!)

A year (or so) after the store had closed one of my customers still sent me occasional Actual Play
reports of his Over the Edge/Under the Broken Moon-powered campaign set in Falgorad.

I liked that a lot!

Malakor · November 22, 2010, 03:55:07 PM

The attached is the starting area for a new campaign I'm working on (Going to use the Dragon Age rules with some background modifications to fit my world).

This is the GM map and is 75% or so finished at the moment. . . my next step will be to do detail maps of individual hexes around the starting town of two rivers (and the town itself, although for that I'll probably pull out an old Harn map and relabel it)

http://www.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/1/9/4819250/9032475.jpg?870

Benoist · November 22, 2010, 04:12:55 PM

Neat map, Malakor. No question about it.

Benoist · November 22, 2010, 04:15:46 PM

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;419042the newsletter that I published for customers of the game store I owned
from 1997-2003. (Beware - Google Translate gibberish!)

"Tabletop-platten?" That made me laugh.

RPGPundit · November 23, 2010, 06:56:53 AM

As much as I like the dungeon, these are just so much more impressive. Well done!

RPGPundit

Dirk Remmecke · November 23, 2010, 08:39:10 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;419247As much as I like the dungeon, these are just so much more impressive.

And more fun to draw.

Yesterday I noticed that I can't contribute to the dungeon thread because I hardly ever
designed a dungeon from ground up (or from ground down).
When in need of a dungeon or castle I almost always browse my collection of modules
(and especially magazines, as their adventure sites usually had a more fitting size) and
borrow a map from there.

Tim · November 23, 2010, 12:08:12 PM

Have you ever tried using watercolor on your maps, Dirk? I'm tempted to give it a try...pencils, then watercolor, then ink the linework.

Dirk Remmecke · November 23, 2010, 02:01:12 PM

Quote from: Tim;419316Have you ever tried using watercolor on your maps, Dirk?

Never. I fear I'd destroy the pencil lines that way, plus the black ink will behave erratically
when the paper was wet (like making the lines thicker by sucking in the ink).

I pencil, then ink, then make a photocopy and put colored pencils to the copy. That way
I can keep the original to fiddle with it afterwards*. The result can be seen in the big collection
of maps above. Other than that I truly like b/w maps.

* In one campaign I needed to change the map to an alternate timeline after the players
had changed the past. I couldn't predict that four years earlier, when I drew the map. I was
happy to have the b/w line art, so I cut-and-pasted a photocopy of it.

Tim · November 23, 2010, 02:24:10 PM

Ah, I see. I love black and white maps myself, but still...

I think watercolor could be made to work-lots of architectural drawings use inked linework with watercolors, for example. And with scanning and photo editing software, there's really no reason to lose any of your progress along the way.

I'll give it a try and either report back with a beautifully colored map or a blurry mess

Darran · November 23, 2010, 07:08:50 PM

Here is one of my maps.