Maps for Das Schwarze Auge

Steve Travis

I played DSA since 1984 and the discovery of CC3 and DD3 was great help to make fine maps for our roleplaying group. Here are the maps of our next adventure. I will test for the first time the Jon Roberts style. I like his handdrawning design. For the walls I used the castle tools from the annual issue 46, it's great for the doorways.
If someone like I can send the .fcw files or high resolution png's.

BOHICA

Very Nice Maps! I really like the river and lake on the last one.

anomiecoalition

Yes...they are all really nice, by I am particularly drawn to the last one. I like how you did the forest in the south

Greebo

Wow, great maps!

Are going to play a selfmade or an "official" adventure? The manor looks somewhat like the one from "Der Wolf von Winhall" to me.

Ralf

But the Town is not Winhall, not the official version anyway.

Great maps, thanks for posting them!

Steve Travis

The "Herrenhaus" redone maps are from the official adventure "Marmortränen" and the townmap is a redone harnmaster map.

Henrie61

Especialy like the 3rd map, well done.

And you convinced me to buy the 2010 annual, just for the castle walls.

Steve Travis

Here are some other maps. The 1. was my first town map made with CD3. This is the redone map of the DSA town "Shamaham" from the original adventure "Die Göttin der Amazonen"

Steve Travis

The 2. I made for a few weeks to test the Jonathan Roberts style. This is a redone map from the DSA town Gratenfels.

Steve Travis

The 3. was made with the basic style from DD3, with some symbols of the CC pro and free symbols (unfortunately in a little resolution) from the Jonathan Roberts homepage. It's a redone map of a troll cave from the original DSA adventure "Fluß des Verderbens"

Gathar

About all the examples of CD3 I've seen up to know left me with something like bad smell, I could not really say what it is, but somehow the cities don't look really believable to me.

The examples you give here are totally different. At last I can see work done by CD3 where I can really believe they are real cities. I'd just say awesome work!

I still don't know precisely what disturbed me in the other examples, but know I now have a reference I can study!

anomiecoalition

awesome...2 questions: how did you do the "ruin" looking buildings in the first city map? and How did you achieve that elevated look in the 2nd city map.

Henrie61

Am impressed by the city.

Steve Travis

Posted By: anomiecoalitionYes...they are all really nice, by I am particularly drawn to the last one. I like how you did the forest in the south

The forest I made with the texture: Annual Jonathan Roberts\Forest.png and the effect is a "edge fade, inner" with the settings: edge with = 5, inner opacity = 100 and outer opacity = 0

Steve Travis

Posted By: anomiecoalitionawesome...2 questions: how did you do the "ruin" looking buildings in the first city map? and How did you achieve that elevated look in the 2nd city map.

The ruins from the left side are from the CD3 bitmap B ruins symbols-catalog and the temple ruin on the right side I made with the free symbols of the week from dundjinni.

For the elevated look I use the Jonathan Roberts city template and there are two sheets called Contour shadows 1 + 2 with the fill styles solid 20 + 40.

Medio

Lovely maps. I still hate how such a wonderful style as Jonathan Roberts one shows such horrible tiles on their terrain textures. The day i will do one (soon, hopefully) i will try to make something to avoid it.

Ithril

Fantastic maps, tiling not-withstanding. I like them anyway, especially the variation on the widths of the rivers, and roads. I especially like how they wax & wane along their path. How did you accomplish this effect?

Steve Travis

Posted By: IthrilFantastic maps, tiling not-withstanding. I like them anyway, especially the variation on the widths of the rivers, and roads. I especially like how they wax & wane along their path. How did you accomplish this effect?

City map 1: For the roads I use, as recommended in the city annual of Jonathan Robert, an underground sheet called "Background City" with the fill style "Dirt 3" and the effect edge fade inner. Over this sheet I lay a roads sheet with the fill style "Dirt 1" (for country roads) and for better roads I use the fill style "flagstones". For both I use the effects glow and edge fade inner.

Posted By: MedioLovely maps. I still hate how such a wonderful style as Jonathan Roberts one shows such horrible tiles on their terrain textures. The day i will do one (soon, hopefully) i will try to make something to avoid it.

Yes, the tiling is a little problem. I use the maps mostly as battle maps, and then I zoom in the maps, the tiling is okay. But in a great scale the tiling is horrible.

Steve Travis

Here are some new maps from our last adventure. The first is map from an island with a fairy station and a castle ruin, the second part are maps from an abondened mine and an outpost at the top of the mine.

Steve Travis

Abandened mine part one.

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Abandened mine part two.

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Abandened mine part three.

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Abandened mine part four.

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Abandened mine part five.

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Mage outpost part one.

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Mage outpost part two.

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Mage outpost part three.

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Mage outpost part four.

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Mage outpost part five.

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Wizard tower part one

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Wizard tower part two