OK, I haven't posted any maps lately, been busy doing commission work, so I usually don't post that stuff. Here's my latest entry into the Cartographers' Guild June Mapping Challenge.
The goal was to create a "home away from home" so I created a magic item called the Amulet of Cerene. (Cerene is the god of death and murder) An assassin uses this to teleport him to his extra-dimensional lair.
Everything is hand-drawn, scanned, colored and given 3D bevels in Xara Xtreme for extra pop.
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death." -Robert Fulghum
Too bad I didn't think ahead when I started this thread, I should have called it GP's Map Emporeum or something...
GP, you can change your title. Click Edit on your original post, and then click Go Advanced. Once you do that, you can modify your thread title to whatever you want!
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death." -Robert Fulghum
The above items are my hottest sellers for some reason, and they were the very first things I created, after I built the site. Link points ecommerce pages, so the Endless Terrain Battlemaps are mixed with all my other stuff.
I've been too busy to get to it, but I have a Wordpress version already created to replace this, just haven't gotten to it yet. Maybe in the next day or so, I'll point to the new version - with no broken links!
GP
PS: without trying to dig out my older maps, here's a link to my portfolio - enjoy!
Cover Design Preview for The Gift adventure for Pathfinder
Just completed the layout for the cover design for my upcoming Kaidan setting. I just found out that the writer needs a bit more time to finish. I also wanted to include a few extra maps and have my Alpha Setting rules in more completion before I released the product anyway. I'll do a simultaneous release with Pathfinder, so I placed the PFRPG Compatibility logo on it.
The illustration on the cover for The Gift (1st of 3 part mini-campaign arc set in Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story setting - Pathfinder RPG Compatible). This was created by Jan Pospisil, a fantasy concept artist from S. Africa, I found while collaborating with my publisher.
OK, working on a bunch of maps for my upcoming adventure module, The Gift, for my Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story setting.
This is a Shinto Shrine, located on the outskirts of Agoya a forest town on the eastern edge of Gaijinaba province, on the island of Yonshu. Once the PCs have made it through the harrowing pass through the mountains, they will arrive in Agoya, but find the gates to the town closed for the night. The Agoya Shrine's Shoten (shaman) will provide lodging, supper and breakfast, healing, disease curing, divinations for each PC, and an explanation on religions of Kaidan.
He will also have a puzzle obstacle that needs solving by the PCs.
Here are two different maps, both for my Kaidan setting, in two very different styles. One is my combination digital and hand-drawn style with scanned drawings which are colored given shape bevels, drop shadows and feathering, all done in Xara Xtreme Pro 4.0
The second map is my first undersea map, Ryukyo: the Sea Dragon Palace and capital city. This map though composited in Xara, given the depth effects and land form creation in Xara, everything else is a mixture of 3D modeled in Nendo, rendered Raydream, use of Zbrush to create the anemone and coral elements and PD Particles to create most of the plantlife.
I've been busy working on Kaidan, so much, I needed a breath of non-Asian fresh air, so I created this map of a fantasy Celtic world region, just to take my mind of my "regularly scheduled program"!
This map is completely hand-drawn, then scanned, imported to Xara Xtreme Pro 4.0 for composition, coloring, borders and labeling. Incidentally the Celtic knotwork border is a font, not hand-drawn, but it works effectively for creating Celtic flavored work.
This is a Celtic slaver's map. Ambrathas, a city of Celtic sorcerers and slave masters need more fieldworkers. An explorer has recently uncovered Celtic lands to the east that follow a more druidic and farming lifestyle - making them ideal candidates for new slaves.
The map kind of reminds me of Middle Earth, except the bad guys are in the region of the Shire, while the good guys are where Mordor should be...
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As of 10 pm, yesterday, The Gift: Part 1, first of three adventures for Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story setting has been officially released and is now available at RPG Now, however trying to change the linked site to point to the EnWorld mirror store so I can get this as a News Scoop to Morrus.
For the first 30 days, it is being offered for $3.99, then will go to $5.99.
Adventure features over 13 full color maps, dozens of illustrations by Mark Hyzer, Simon Turnbull, cover art by Jan Pospisil, written by Michael Tumey, Andy Champagne, and Andrew Chirgwin. Over 50 pages, 7+ MB PDF download.
Available at RPG Now, the Paizo Store, Drivethru RPG, Gamer Printshop and Dementia 5 websites.
Looks like I'm going to start a new publishing project, this one a Rogue's Resource Guide of sorts, I'm doing the maps (with sliced printable versions) for 4e.
The work will be written and published by Johnn Four of Roleplayingtips.com newseltter and with Yax of Game Mastery blog.
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