Good morning, I'm looking to learn stuff about the new campaign mappers I might use for my DnD gaming. I need world maps and Locale maps, but not battle mats. Any advice is appreciated.
If this is already out there in a thread, I apologize for the repeat. I've been using the old DOS version of Campaign Cartographer (CC) for some years, but I'm facing the end of DOS supported stuff and looking for something newer and better.
I've used the mapper in the old TSR Core Rules disc and found it too intensive with ink for regular use anymore. It literally soaks the paper with ink until it wrinkles. I hate that. I like the feature of the old CC because you could set a faint dot matrix sort of back color as your basic Land or water, then you could lay over the light color some terrain icons of other colors. I used a sparse yellow dot matrix to give a pale sepia tone effect for land, with a black or brown continental border and green forest icons. Rivers were just free drawn blue lines.
I'd like to know if there are other programs now that allow this faint background color. For instance, does Dunjinni use the massive ink spray method that soaks the paper and burns through ink cartridges or can you do pale-color maps? I've used CC@ for windows, but I didn't think it was a good enough improvement to warrant learning it ( I spent 2 days on it and managed to produce nothing useful-- that's way too long).
I don't own any art programs, and know nothing about them.
Thanks for your help.
Also, are there any boards around EN world for contacting people from my local area who may want to join/start a game in person instead of by email/forum post? Are those inquiries considered impolite? My knowledge of Forum Etiquette is limited.
If this is already out there in a thread, I apologize for the repeat. I've been using the old DOS version of Campaign Cartographer (CC) for some years, but I'm facing the end of DOS supported stuff and looking for something newer and better.
I've used the mapper in the old TSR Core Rules disc and found it too intensive with ink for regular use anymore. It literally soaks the paper with ink until it wrinkles. I hate that. I like the feature of the old CC because you could set a faint dot matrix sort of back color as your basic Land or water, then you could lay over the light color some terrain icons of other colors. I used a sparse yellow dot matrix to give a pale sepia tone effect for land, with a black or brown continental border and green forest icons. Rivers were just free drawn blue lines.
I'd like to know if there are other programs now that allow this faint background color. For instance, does Dunjinni use the massive ink spray method that soaks the paper and burns through ink cartridges or can you do pale-color maps? I've used CC@ for windows, but I didn't think it was a good enough improvement to warrant learning it ( I spent 2 days on it and managed to produce nothing useful-- that's way too long).
I don't own any art programs, and know nothing about them.
Thanks for your help.
Also, are there any boards around EN world for contacting people from my local area who may want to join/start a game in person instead of by email/forum post? Are those inquiries considered impolite? My knowledge of Forum Etiquette is limited.
