{MAP} Gnomish Homeland

[0-hr]

I was practicing some new techniques and figured I'd toss this up in case someone needed a fantasy island ("the plane, the plane"). No, not that fantasy island - this one is where the gnomes come from in my homebrew world.

(click for the Big Picture)

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There are more maps, though less geogaphical in nature linked from my home page: http://home.insightbb.com/~ryan.wolfe/

 

[Phaedrus]

Very nice!

Did you use mapping software (which app), or just a draw program (which one)?

 

[Nellisir]

That's a -really- nice looking map. The 3d aspect draws me in more than most I've seen - I kept looking for a way to zoom in closer to get more detail!


Nell.

PS - Ki Ryn -- most of your sig does not show up against the "Players Handbook" background.

 

[James Heard]

Interesting use of beveling in your layers, does it get muddy when you're doing radical curves and such? Is that a non-black shadow effect? Was the entire thing done digitially or did you bother rough sketching in pencils for a scan?

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Very nice. That may come in handy in the game I'm currently planning...

 

[alsih2o]

NICE!

Can we get a copy without the names?

 

[Lawrence of Arabica]

I like this map but I have one kinda nit-picky comment: treeline in the mountains is probably at 10,000 feet, maybe higher (this of course depends on various factors, but let's assume a temperate climate and medium latitude) which I think means the vegetation green should go higher up the slopes of the mountain range. Or perhaps the mountains are very high.

 

[Nellisir]

I like this map but I have one kinda nit-picky comment: treeline in the mountains is probably at 10,000 feet, maybe higher (this of course depends on various factors, but let's assume a temperate climate and medium latitude) which I think means the vegetation green should go higher up the slopes of the mountain range. Or perhaps the mountains are very high.

It's really a pretty variable thing. Here in New Hampshire (45 degree latitude) the tree line is somewhere around 5,000 ft. Quite a few of the White Mountains are bald, yet the highest (Mt. Washington) is only 6,288 ft high (and holds the record for highest wind speed ever recorded on the planet).

Fire is another explanation. At least two mountains around here experienced cataclyismic forest fires in the 1700's that burned everything on the peaks, and the wind carried away what was left. 300 years later, they're still bald.

Just something to consider!
Cheers
Nell.

 

[Lawrence of Arabica]

That's a good point, but even there the trees go most of the way to the top. I assume it's too windy on the highest parts of some of the mountains. With the map here, the trees would seem to go only maybe a third of the way up, which demands some sort of explanation.

(FWIW, wikipedia has a little table of some treelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treeline)