Some maps & artwork from my campaign.

Kris · Jan 7, 2008

Hello all

Here's a couple of maps I finished at the end of last year that I've just got round to uploading to my website.

The first is a fairly typical BBEG's tower kind of thing... though my own players have never got near the place. The image on the title page is supposed to be a silhouetted outline of the side of the tower (hopefully that will help to make sense of how the levels fit together):
http://www.enworld.org/CrookedStaffProductions/tower_booklet.pdf

The second is a kind of manor house with some detached workshops etc.:
http://www.enworld.org/CrookedStaffProductions/house_booklet.pdf

Funnily enough my players never made it there either :\

Kris · Jan 7, 2008

An elven longsword:

An elven shield

jaerdaph · Jan 7, 2008

Kris said:
Hello all

Here's a couple of maps I finished at the end of last year that I've just got round to uploading to my website.

The first is a fairly typical BBEG's tower kind of thing... though my own players have never got near the place. The image on the title page is supposed to be a silhouetted outline of the side of the tower (hopefully that will help to make sense of how the levels fit together):

Wow, Kris, these are awesome - very professional-looking! If you haven't already, you should check out The Cartographers Guild and join up: http://www.cartographersguild.com

The tower maps remind me of Christopher West's work.

Thanks for sharing these.

Kris · Jan 7, 2008

jaerdaph said:
Wow, Kris, these are awesome - very professional-looking! If you haven't already, you should check out The Cartographers Guild and join up

Glad you like them

I joined the CG forum at the end of last year I think... I just don't think I ever got round to introducing myself over there or posting anything yet

Kris · Jan 7, 2008

Here's a few more...

A map of a former hunting lodge that is currently used as an inn:

Some simple heraldry:

A small town map:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/camboltur_map.jpg

Half-flooded catacombs map:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/catacombs.jpg

jaerdaph · Jan 7, 2008

Wow! What program are you using to make these maps in?

Kris · Jan 8, 2008

jaerdaph said:
Wow! What program are you using to make these maps in?

I draw all the basic shapes in something called 'Greenstreet Draw 4' - it's basically a cheap & nasty vector graphics program (think of something like adobe illustrator but at about 1/10th the price... actually they might be giving it away for free by now - it really is that old).

Then I take that simple image (it's usually little more than a grid for the floor tiles, a thick line for the walls, etc.) into photoshop and try and make it look pretty

Sometimes I might add a statue or something (that I create in poser), or add an effect from some other software that I have installed (basically I've got a bunch of things installed simply because I like one or two effects they produce. For example there is some software that came free with my scanner that produces a nice gem effect... and that's all I use it for

).

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Anyway, here's a couple more maps... first a small ship (possibly passable as a two-masted caravel):

And an old ruin with some excavation going on (somewhat unrealistically lining up nicely with a 5ft grid

):
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c265/hador_goldenhead/aldharath_ruins_2.jpg

Blackrat · Jan 8, 2008

Oh wow. Ever considered being overly generous and creating few tiles for the latest Dungeon Crafter? I'd really love to get those water and grass effects as 72x72 pixel tiles.

Pyrandon · Jan 8, 2008

Very nice! Great work, Kris!

Fallen Seraph · Jan 9, 2008

I am wondering, obviously you intend to use those for your campaign, so for the larger maps how do you go about printing them out at proper size? Do you take them to a print-shop?