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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5642491" data-attributes="member: 50895">How about this... when I create an adventure, I almost always create one or more maps to accomodate it. Now lots of GMs create maps, and most of it is usable in game and not art, however, I actually have some artistic training, and am in fact commissioned on a regular basis by RPG publishers to create maps. Many publishers prefer my maps because all the linework is generally hand-drawn, and I finish the map in full color digitally. I would have to qualify all my maps as art. I just finished a mega-city map for Paizo's upcoming Jade Regent adventure path as my first commission for them and before I was even finished they've told me they got lots more work for me to tackle sooner and later. Though I'm not the writer that I am a cartographer, still I put as much effort and attempt at fine creative writing in textual part of an adventure as I do in cartography. My adventures are intended as commercial publications as often as a personal adventure for my own games. And regarding the 'art museum' line of thinking some here are posting as representative of art. For the whole month of July of 2010, I had three maps shown in the <a href="http://sohodigart.com/" target="_blank">Soho Digital Art Gallery</a>, in New York City, in a showing of maps created by members of the Cartographers' Guild. So where do you draw the line in what is art and what is not? Perhaps with most building an adventure for a weekend gaming session might not qualify as art, still it is not a hard line drawn in the sand. RPG design can very well be considered art - I guess its both who is creating it and who is judging it... (and I really don't think those last two determines what is art or not.) Edit: Here's a recent encounter scale map of mine from my Curse of the Golden Spear mini-arc... is this art? <img src="http://www.gamer-printshop.com/gift/daitengu-bridge-thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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