Nob Biranit - Desert Fort (and Recommendation on Castle EBook)
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I bought an ebook ("Compact Castles") based on a recommendation I received on the cartographer's guild web site (http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=DHCC01). The book is over 80 pages of detailed floor plans and descriptions for 15 different real world small castles around the world. It value easily exceeds the $8 I spent on it and I would highly recommend it to everyone interested in creating maps of smaller castles and forts.
I was so excited with the purchase that I recreated one of the Desert Forts profiled in it (Nob Biranit was a fort in ancient Israel). I created it in CC3 and utilized a bunch of objects found in the CSUAC and Dunjinni Forums...I then put all 3 floors together and added some text in Photoshop.
In retrospect, I probably should've expanded the size of the rooms a bit for gameplay (but real world forts were apparently really quite small). I also should've added a water source and stables (for camels) either inside or outside...but I think it will still make for a cool encounter for my PCs.
For a higher resolution version...check it out on my blog: http://drunkennerdery.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/nob-biranit-desert-fort/
*duh...forgot to attach the image..
I was so excited with the purchase that I recreated one of the Desert Forts profiled in it (Nob Biranit was a fort in ancient Israel). I created it in CC3 and utilized a bunch of objects found in the CSUAC and Dunjinni Forums...I then put all 3 floors together and added some text in Photoshop.
In retrospect, I probably should've expanded the size of the rooms a bit for gameplay (but real world forts were apparently really quite small). I also should've added a water source and stables (for camels) either inside or outside...but I think it will still make for a cool encounter for my PCs.
For a higher resolution version...check it out on my blog: http://drunkennerdery.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/nob-biranit-desert-fort/
*duh...forgot to attach the image..
Comments
Like it a lot. Think it is quite usefull in a desert adventure.
Oh and the map looks great, I really like the coloration.