Sigil NPC list, Venues list and Map downloads

[underthumb]

The progress looks great. Thanks again for working on this. Also, if you ever end up creating a non-abstract map of Sigil, that would be amazing, and I fully encourage it.

Just FYI, the NPC Database link is broken again.

 

[aboyd]

Your work on map 2.0 is so cool I might just cry.

 

[Ambrus]

Thanks for the kind words guys. Honestly, seeing that people still post to this thread occasionally is what keeps me motivated to continue working on the map. So thanks for the proverbial whip crack.

Also, if you ever end up creating a non-abstract map of Sigil, that would be amazing, and I fully encourage it.

Woah... That's a whole other kettle of fish. I've often entertained dreams of trying my hand at a non-abstract building by building map of the Cage, but the logistics involved would make it a herculean task. Each of Sigil's wards individually is, on average, bigger in surface area than the largest fantasy cities that have been professionally mapped out to date (including Waterdeep, Plotus, greyhawk and the like). To work at an equivalent scale, in which most buildings wouldn't appear much larger than a pinhead, it'd require a map roughly 2-ft by 15-ft in length. The way I figure it, the only way to do it would be to produce five poster-sized maps; one per ward (with the Guildhall and Market Wards together). Even at that scale the largest building in Sigil, lets say the Gatehouse, would appear smaller than a postage stamp.

I'd love to tackle such a job, but that's what it'd be: a job. I'd need some funding to make it happen sometime in the foreseeable future. So, as much as I would love it, I just don't see it happening unless WotC sees fit to hire me full time as a cartographer. Sorry.

Just FYI, the NPC Database link is broken again.

I've updated the links on the first page of this thread, assuming that was the link you were referring to. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Ambrus]

Your work on map 2.0 is so cool I might just cry.

Now now. Cowboy up there soldier. Everything is going to be okay...

 

[lin_fusan]

I'm crying too. I wish I was running a Planescape campaign just so I can use these maps.

I'm so glad you guys are keeping the setting alive through planewalker.com. I keep wanting to jump in a help, but life always interferes with the fun...

 

[Ripzerai]

Beautiful! Thanks for doing these things, really.

I feel like I should say something constructive, but the only thing I can think of at the moment is slightly deconstructive - Bigby doesn't have a beard in most published illustrations. Not that that's a problem; he could have grown a beard while he was in Sigil, or the statue might have been made by sculptors who've never seen Bigby. It might originally have been a sculpture of a different wizard, later identified with Bigby. It could be a different Bigby, perhaps an ancestor of the current one. Maybe he has a detachable beard that serves as his familiar (I imagine it makes a trilling noise when it's feeling stressed, and on those occasions Bigby tells it to "Calm down, Beardy, old girl."). And the picture's so small it might not depict a beard anyway. Hardly worth mentioning, but I feel like contributing something. So there you have it: the Bigby's Beard Issue, and suggested accompanying rationalizations.

 

[Ambrus]

Nice to hear from you Ripzerai.

I figure that I must be on the right track if the worst criticism you can offer is that I got Bigby's personal grooming wrong. Honestly, I can't recall ever having seen an image of the iconic Greyhawk wizard though I suppose I may have simply failed to realized that that was who an image I saw was intended to depict. I don't suppose you could direct me to an online image of Bigby could you?

I'll be sure to correct my mistake since you bothered to point it out, and since including an image of his character on the map was intended to be a respectful nod to the late Mr. Gygax.

 

[Thanael]

There's a picture of the complete Circle of Eight in Vecna Lives. (Rary looks funny in it.)

I believe there's a picture of Bigby in the Living Greyhawk Journal #0, part of which is available here (but sadly not the picture) There's is at least a description of him. He is on the cover of LGJ#0 though, but i can't find a bigger version than this one:

(I believe he's the guy with the hood up, and he seems to have a goatee at least)

 

[Ripzerai]

Ah, yes, you're right, Thanael; Bigby is the one with the hood, and he has a neatly trimmed brown beard.

I was thinking of his illustration in Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure:

 

[TarionzCousin]

Most people would recognize Bigby if the statue just had huge oversize hands.