MAPPING: Attempt at New Map.

[Fargoth]

Greetings All,

I was looking through some printed maps I have in a binder and thought I'd try my hand at cranking out some of my own in the same style.

I created the map using CC2, DD2, and Paint Shop Pro.

There are three sizes to view depending on your taste and connection speed.

SMALL This image is 512 KB and is 769x800 pixels.

MEDIUM This image is 1.99 MB and is 1587x1650 pixels.

LARGE This image is 5.92 MB and is 2898x3013 pixels.

Regards,
Paul

 

[Targeteron]

Simple, usable, good looking! Thanks for sharing! One can never have too many Maps.

 

[kreynolds]

This type of map is among my favorite types. Nice work.

 

[Aristotle]

I could do with or without the torn paper edge, its window dressing really; but the overall map I like. I like the simplicity of the lines (its not making me all crosseyed), the texture of the canvas, and I particularly like your diagonal linework. Lots of maps do that to make it clear what areas are "inside" and what areas are not. I just really like the way you did them.

 

[Conaill]

Looks nice.

You may want to pay a little more attention how rooms and corridors line up with the grid. For example, all the 5' wide short corridors to the small rooms have a gridline running right through the middle. And the small rooms on the left all have half squares all around the edges. Makes it quite awkward if you want to use the grid for combat.

WotC is notorious for messing up the grid on a lot of their maps BTW. There's really only two main reasons to have a grid in the first place: (1) to make it easy to measure distances, and (2) for combat positions. WotC maps often have corridors at an angle to the grid and other craziness like that, which makes the grid more or less useless for both purposes.