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<blockquote data-quote="Augreth" data-source="post: 8817910" data-attributes="member: 6874567">I agree, I don’t like it at all stylistically.On the positive side, I like the idea of using the art assets like the spider or the dwarf for illustrating what you can find in a region.On the negative side, it is hard to pin down why I don’t like it, exactly. I don’t want to be insulting, but it looks cheap and unprofessional overall.&nbsp;I try to be more specific. The assets like mountains, hills, forests etc. look amateurish. The rivers are drawn crudely and somewhat angular, and always with the same two width settings. In Allesund they seem to spring out of nowhere, while usually rivers originate in mountains.The proportions of most art assets don’t match. The dwarf and other people for example have different proportions, especially the huge guy in the East Downs pushing the cart. The cracks of the Hinterlands are way too big relative to woods and hills. The rivers are drawn too broad.Overall, I think the colour composition fails to deliver tone and atmosphere. Looking at the map I don’t know what kind of setting this is, what kind of gaming experience I can expect.This is meant as constructive feedback. I really love Memories of Holdenshire, but I already was disappointed with the maps in that book.Cheers,Axel <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Augreth, post: 8817910, member: 6874567"] I agree, I don’t like it at all stylistically. On the positive side, I like the idea of using the art assets like the spider or the dwarf for illustrating what you can find in a region. On the negative side, it is hard to pin down why I don’t like it, exactly. I don’t want to be insulting, but it looks cheap and unprofessional overall. I try to be more specific. The assets like mountains, hills, forests etc. look amateurish. The rivers are drawn crudely and somewhat angular, and always with the same two width settings. In Allesund they seem to spring out of nowhere, while usually rivers originate in mountains. The proportions of most art assets don’t match. The dwarf and other people for example have different proportions, especially the huge guy in the East Downs pushing the cart. The cracks of the Hinterlands are way too big relative to woods and hills. The rivers are drawn too broad. Overall, I think the colour composition fails to deliver tone and atmosphere. Looking at the map I don’t know what kind of setting this is, what kind of gaming experience I can expect. This is meant as constructive feedback. I really love Memories of Holdenshire, but I already was disappointed with the maps in that book. Cheers, Axel :) [/QUOTE]

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