Some maps & artwork from my campaign.

[Kris]

Hello all

Here's a couple of maps I finished at the end of last year that I've just got round to uploading to my website.

The first is a fairly typical BBEG's tower kind of thing... though my own players have never got near the place. The image on the title page is supposed to be a silhouetted outline of the side of the tower (hopefully that will help to make sense of how the levels fit together):
http://www.enworld.org/CrookedStaffProductions/tower_booklet.pdf

The second is a kind of manor house with some detached workshops etc.:
http://www.enworld.org/CrookedStaffProductions/house_booklet.pdf

Funnily enough my players never made it there either :\

 

[Kris]

An elven longsword:

An elven shield

 

[jaerdaph]

Hello all

Here's a couple of maps I finished at the end of last year that I've just got round to uploading to my website.

The first is a fairly typical BBEG's tower kind of thing... though my own players have never got near the place. The image on the title page is supposed to be a silhouetted outline of the side of the tower (hopefully that will help to make sense of how the levels fit together):

Wow, Kris, these are awesome - very professional-looking! If you haven't already, you should check out The Cartographers Guild and join up: http://www.cartographersguild.com

The tower maps remind me of Christopher West's work.

Thanks for sharing these.

 

[Kris]

Wow, Kris, these are awesome - very professional-looking! If you haven't already, you should check out The Cartographers Guild and join up

Glad you like them

I joined the CG forum at the end of last year I think... I just don't think I ever got round to introducing myself over there or posting anything yet

 

[Kris]

Here's a few more...

A map of a former hunting lodge that is currently used as an inn:

Some simple heraldry:

A small town map:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/camboltur_map.jpg

Half-flooded catacombs map:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/csp_kris/catacombs.jpg

 

[jaerdaph]

Wow! What program are you using to make these maps in?

 

[Kris]

Wow! What program are you using to make these maps in?

I draw all the basic shapes in something called 'Greenstreet Draw 4' - it's basically a cheap & nasty vector graphics program (think of something like adobe illustrator but at about 1/10th the price... actually they might be giving it away for free by now - it really is that old).

Then I take that simple image (it's usually little more than a grid for the floor tiles, a thick line for the walls, etc.) into photoshop and try and make it look pretty

Sometimes I might add a statue or something (that I create in poser), or add an effect from some other software that I have installed (basically I've got a bunch of things installed simply because I like one or two effects they produce. For example there is some software that came free with my scanner that produces a nice gem effect... and that's all I use it for ).

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Anyway, here's a couple more maps... first a small ship (possibly passable as a two-masted caravel):

And an old ruin with some excavation going on (somewhat unrealistically lining up nicely with a 5ft grid ):
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c265/hador_goldenhead/aldharath_ruins_2.jpg

 

[Blackrat]

Oh wow. Ever considered being overly generous and creating few tiles for the latest Dungeon Crafter? I'd really love to get those water and grass effects as 72x72 pixel tiles.

 

[Pyrandon]

Very nice! Great work, Kris!

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I am wondering, obviously you intend to use those for your campaign, so for the larger maps how do you go about printing them out at proper size? Do you take them to a print-shop?