Necropolis symbols
Hi
I'm looking to put together a map for a large necropolis, either as an overland map or a city map (it's for a hex crawl, I can always play with scale). Not sure if it'd be doable with a dungeon map, but I'm happy to try.
Are there any annuals or other products I can use to help with this? I'd be looking for gravestone symbols, mausoleums, ossuaries... preferably something stark as it's for a Dark Souls game (the simple vector symbols in the miscellaneous CD library are a bit too colorful). I am a complete newb to CC, so unfortunately I'm not sure I'd know how to import symbols from external libraries, but also willing to give that a try if there are tutorials handy.
Thanks!
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Last's years annual may be of interest as a starting point. It contained two issues dedicated to graveyards and crypts.
This is a dungeon style though, but if you are going to a zoom level where you can actually see such details, you kind of end up there. For larger scales, city, and especially overland, such details tend to disappear.
As far as I know, there aren't any necropolis styles for overland or city, but perhaps some of the darker styles may be appropriate to provide the right mood, like Darklands and Darklands City.
Those look great, thanks! Even if they don't work for the hex map I can use them for the detail maps, and if it's too colorful I can always desaturate/darken the jpg export.
Issue 99 is city ruins... not modernistic though. But most of the symbols are shells of buildings. Outer walls, not much else. A few wood buildings as well. I'll be posting a map using them, and the downport annual for Cosmographer, in my Starfinder thread.
I ended up going with the B&W Mike Schley inks style - it's got monoliths, cairns, henges, barrows, and a great heaping pile of gothic structures which look suitably necropolis-ish!
Cheers