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Free Fantasy Architecture (New Stuff! 6/4/03)
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Knightfall
World of Kulan DM
KnidVermicious said:
Wow.... I mean, WOW! That's great. Not exactly like in the adventure but who cares! Hmm, I'll have to do some CC2 maps for this new version... fun, fun.
Knid, do you want to do another one? I'm the sort that post one idea at a time as not to overtax those offering free drawing in this forum. I actually have about four or five other ideas I'd like you to do but only if your willing. (It's also hard for me to type up several descriptions all at once b-cuz of my injured arm/wrist.)
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That last one is, indeed, really cool.
Cheers and Thank You again!
Robert B., aka Knightfall1972
p.s. Oww!
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KnidVermicious
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Knightfall1972: I'm going to work on some bridge designs for Mor's End, but when I'm done with those I'll certainly take some more requests.
I didn't have that Dungeon, so I just tinkered around with "crystal" shapes. I wanted it to look very faceted and weird. It ended up looking a little like an alien spaceship, which I thought works pretty well.
I didn't have that Dungeon, so I just tinkered around with "crystal" shapes. I wanted it to look very faceted and weird. It ended up looking a little like an alien spaceship, which I thought works pretty well.
Hiya Knid, since I'm the one who suggested Highbridge, let me put in my 2cp on how I think they should look...
First, there will only be one island connected with bridges. Just hasn't been updated yet. We've decided the second smaller one houses a reclusive wizard (could be another interesting project, but it's got some ruins on it which might be better for a freehand drawing).
The northern bridge to the island is provisionally called Oldbridge, and would be the oldest bridge in Mor's End. The first bridge TGD posted would be a good example: sturdy dwarven workmanship, too low to pass anything but a rowboat underneath, not a very long span.
The southern bridge from the island is Highbridge: high enough to pass a river sailing ship underneath. Probably not nearly as high and imposing as the last bridge I posted on the thread, but that one has the right feel to it. Also quite old, so I was aiming for a romanesque look: big dwarven stone roman arcs. I suggested the bridge might start on a rocky outcropping on the mainland, to gain a little height. (There must have been a river crossing there before the bridge though, so don't make the river banks too hard to cross...)
Both bridges are probably integrated with the Citadel on the center island. That's where the toll gate for the trade caravans used to be. The ornate gate is still there, but a whole castle has sprung up around it since then. Note that the island is relatively narrow, so there can't be too much of a drop in height between Highbridge and Oldbridge.
The easternmost bridge is Newbridge, a marvel of modern dwarven cast iron engineering. It spans the entire river (although not necessarily in a single span), and is high enough to pass a river sailing ship underneath as well. About as long as Oldbridge and Highbridge combined. All three bridges sould be wide enough for two wagons to pass simultaneously (major river crossings for the trade caravans).
I'll have to check for the exact dimensions of the spans though...
Thanks for giving us a hand with these, Knid! Yo da man! We can use aaaaalll the help we can get...
First, there will only be one island connected with bridges. Just hasn't been updated yet. We've decided the second smaller one houses a reclusive wizard (could be another interesting project, but it's got some ruins on it which might be better for a freehand drawing).
The northern bridge to the island is provisionally called Oldbridge, and would be the oldest bridge in Mor's End. The first bridge TGD posted would be a good example: sturdy dwarven workmanship, too low to pass anything but a rowboat underneath, not a very long span.
The southern bridge from the island is Highbridge: high enough to pass a river sailing ship underneath. Probably not nearly as high and imposing as the last bridge I posted on the thread, but that one has the right feel to it. Also quite old, so I was aiming for a romanesque look: big dwarven stone roman arcs. I suggested the bridge might start on a rocky outcropping on the mainland, to gain a little height. (There must have been a river crossing there before the bridge though, so don't make the river banks too hard to cross...)
Both bridges are probably integrated with the Citadel on the center island. That's where the toll gate for the trade caravans used to be. The ornate gate is still there, but a whole castle has sprung up around it since then. Note that the island is relatively narrow, so there can't be too much of a drop in height between Highbridge and Oldbridge.
The easternmost bridge is Newbridge, a marvel of modern dwarven cast iron engineering. It spans the entire river (although not necessarily in a single span), and is high enough to pass a river sailing ship underneath as well. About as long as Oldbridge and Highbridge combined. All three bridges sould be wide enough for two wagons to pass simultaneously (major river crossings for the trade caravans).
I'll have to check for the exact dimensions of the spans though...
Thanks for giving us a hand with these, Knid! Yo da man! We can use aaaaalll the help we can get...
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KnidVermicious
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Raistlin Majere: Sure. If you want full size they are all around 5 megs each. Some of them probably look better smaller, though, as I created them with the intention of posting them here.
They are too big for me to email. Uh...how does ftp work?
Which ones are you interested in?
They are too big for me to email. Uh...how does ftp work?
Which ones are you interested in?
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KingCroMag
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Here is something of a challenge for you. I have always wanted to see a mock up of this city. I realize it is a difficult piece and if you did it too well we might all go insane . But I think it would be really neat to see your idea of how it might look from the following description.
R'lyeh. City of the Great Old Ones now lying under the Pacific Ocean. Castro, a member of the Cthulhu Cult captured in the swamps south of New Orleans on November 1, 1907, stated that the Great Old Ones slumber in their stone houses in the great city of R’lyeh, waiting for the time when the stars are right and the earth is ready for their return. He goes on to say that it is the spells of Great Cthulhu who preserve the Great Old Ones. For countless millennium R’lyeh sat abandoned and in deathless sleep, then a catastrophe struck and it sank beneath the waves. The uppermost pinnacles of the city and Great Cthulhu’s tomb are located at S. Latitude 47° 9’, W. Longitude 126° 43’, though the full size and extent of the city is unknown. On February 28, 1925 (EST), R’lyeh raised from the depth of the Pacific Ocean floor. There is only one recorded physical encounter with the city of R’lyeh, written in English text by Gustaf Johansen prior to his strange and untimely death. It is thought that he wrote the encounter in English to protect his wife from inadvertently reading it rather than providing a more accurate description (Johansen was Norwegian). Johansen encountered R’lyeh on March 23, 1925. Initially, Johansen describes a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry. At the pinnacle of the island stood a garganteous monolith that soared into the heavens. The monolith was surrounded by greenish stone blocks of unbelievable size. Though not describing any definite structure, Johansen describes broad impressions of vast angles and surfaces too great to belong to anything on this earth. This description collaborates with that of Henry Wilcox, who described the geometry of the place as wrong—abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions not of our own. Johansen describes the polarizing miasma of the place as mind affecting, creating illusions of insanity in conjunction with the crazily elusive angles of carved rock. He goes on to tell of climbing what he could only imagine to be a staircase made of titan oozing blocks which was meant for no mortal foot. Atop the monolith was an oddly angled door which he accidentally opened, releasing Great Cthulhu from his tomb. Johansen fled along with one other member of his crew, who later died. The island sunk again on April 2, 1925 and lies again as the tomb of the deathless Great Old Ones.
This will be a great game aid for a game I am in.
Thanks for your time
-KCM
. But I think it would be really neat to see your idea of how it might look from the following description. R'lyeh. City of the Great Old Ones now lying under the Pacific Ocean. Castro, a member of the Cthulhu Cult captured in the swamps south of New Orleans on November 1, 1907, stated that the Great Old Ones slumber in their stone houses in the great city of R’lyeh, waiting for the time when the stars are right and the earth is ready for their return. He goes on to say that it is the spells of Great Cthulhu who preserve the Great Old Ones. For countless millennium R’lyeh sat abandoned and in deathless sleep, then a catastrophe struck and it sank beneath the waves. The uppermost pinnacles of the city and Great Cthulhu’s tomb are located at S. Latitude 47° 9’, W. Longitude 126° 43’, though the full size and extent of the city is unknown. On February 28, 1925 (EST), R’lyeh raised from the depth of the Pacific Ocean floor. There is only one recorded physical encounter with the city of R’lyeh, written in English text by Gustaf Johansen prior to his strange and untimely death. It is thought that he wrote the encounter in English to protect his wife from inadvertently reading it rather than providing a more accurate description (Johansen was Norwegian). Johansen encountered R’lyeh on March 23, 1925. Initially, Johansen describes a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry. At the pinnacle of the island stood a garganteous monolith that soared into the heavens. The monolith was surrounded by greenish stone blocks of unbelievable size. Though not describing any definite structure, Johansen describes broad impressions of vast angles and surfaces too great to belong to anything on this earth. This description collaborates with that of Henry Wilcox, who described the geometry of the place as wrong—abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions not of our own. Johansen describes the polarizing miasma of the place as mind affecting, creating illusions of insanity in conjunction with the crazily elusive angles of carved rock. He goes on to tell of climbing what he could only imagine to be a staircase made of titan oozing blocks which was meant for no mortal foot. Atop the monolith was an oddly angled door which he accidentally opened, releasing Great Cthulhu from his tomb. Johansen fled along with one other member of his crew, who later died. The island sunk again on April 2, 1925 and lies again as the tomb of the deathless Great Old Ones.
This will be a great game aid for a game I am in.
Thanks for your time
-KCM
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