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<blockquote data-quote="jaerdaph" data-source="post: 5650930" data-attributes="member: 3398"><p>I've always wanted to design my own fictional city for use with a supers campaign. Now that I'm predominately running Icons, I've started to consolidate my collection of notes and ideas on the setting, locales, NPCs, history etc. I'm even thinking of starting a blog to pull it all together and force me to do the work on a regular schedule. I'm now at the point where I want a basic map that I can use and expand as I put it all together. </p><p></p><p>I started a map in Campaign Cartographer 3 (CC3), and I'm now wondering if it will be big enough. I'm thinking of something similar in size to Green Ronin's Freedom City or Hero Games' Hudson City. At the same time, I don't want to make something as large as Manhattan/NYC. I guess a medium sized city is what I'm shooting for. There would also be suburbs that would theoretically stretch beyond the borders of the attached map outline. </p><p></p><p>I've attached the (very) basic landscape map for my setting, Grimm City. The area inside the border is 22,000 ft x 18,000 ft and I've included a 1 mile long black and white scale bar. For reference, the <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_is_the_Brooklyn_Bridge&isLookUp=1#Q=How%20long%20is%20the%20Brooklyn%20Bridge%3F" target="_blank">Brooklyn Bridge</a> is a little over a mile long. </p><p></p><p>Also for reference I've included a to scale drawing of the footprints of the World Trade Center towers (<a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_dimensions_of_the_World_Trade_Center" target="_blank">280' a side</a>, <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_far_apart_were_the_world_trade_center_towers" target="_blank">140' apart</a>) and a simple outline (roughly to scale) of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Intrepid_%28CV-11%29" target="_blank">USS Intrepid</a>.</p><p></p><p>Do you think this will be sufficient for what I want to accomplish? Any thoughts, suggestions or advice would be most welcome! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaerdaph, post: 5650930, member: 3398"] I've always wanted to design my own fictional city for use with a supers campaign. Now that I'm predominately running Icons, I've started to consolidate my collection of notes and ideas on the setting, locales, NPCs, history etc. I'm even thinking of starting a blog to pull it all together and force me to do the work on a regular schedule. I'm now at the point where I want a basic map that I can use and expand as I put it all together. I started a map in Campaign Cartographer 3 (CC3), and I'm now wondering if it will be big enough. I'm thinking of something similar in size to Green Ronin's Freedom City or Hero Games' Hudson City. At the same time, I don't want to make something as large as Manhattan/NYC. I guess a medium sized city is what I'm shooting for. There would also be suburbs that would theoretically stretch beyond the borders of the attached map outline. I've attached the (very) basic landscape map for my setting, Grimm City. The area inside the border is 22,000 ft x 18,000 ft and I've included a 1 mile long black and white scale bar. For reference, the [URL="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_is_the_Brooklyn_Bridge&isLookUp=1#Q=How%20long%20is%20the%20Brooklyn%20Bridge%3F"]Brooklyn Bridge[/URL] is a little over a mile long. Also for reference I've included a to scale drawing of the footprints of the World Trade Center towers ([URL="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_dimensions_of_the_World_Trade_Center"]280' a side[/URL], [URL="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_far_apart_were_the_world_trade_center_towers"]140' apart[/URL]) and a simple outline (roughly to scale) of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Intrepid_%28CV-11%29"]USS Intrepid[/URL]. Do you think this will be sufficient for what I want to accomplish? Any thoughts, suggestions or advice would be most welcome! B-) [/QUOTE]
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