A Map A Session

Ralf · September 2008

I have a new program ... I'm going to create at least one map for each session of my upcoming role-playing campaign, and post those to my blog. I've you've gto any questions or comments, feel free to post tthem here or on my blog. See the map behind this link or from the attachment below.

Highland_Piper · September 2008

Perfect as I'm switching to more of the John Speed and B&W styles for my player handouts. I'm never happy with my own maps and I'm always thinking "I wish I could make maps like Ralf, or Allyn Bowker." I will enjoy watching these for ideas and inspiration.

Greebo · September 2008

The program sounds like a good idea. And the map looks great.

Bobajob · September 2008

Wow that's a nice map Ralf. I think it would look even better if it had a leather background or if someone colored it in by hand (that would be too much work though).

Ralf · October 2008

Here's the second map in my a-map-a-session program. Don't look too closely at the source, I didn't bother about correct internal scaling at all - as I often do when only the print output is relevant for me. Also the flooded water area could be set up better, I ran into ordering problems with the background and roads. But I had only my lunch break for it, so I had to work quick.

Greebo · October 2008

You acomplished THAT in your lunch break???

Looks good by the way. And reminds me to start my own mapping program...

Highland_Piper · October 2008

Very nice Ralf. I can't wait to get CD3 after seeing yours and others maps as of late. I have so many cities and villages to make.

Ralf · November 2008

I've got the next map in my program. It's a bit of a rework of my CD3 example. As it happens the players reached that town at the end of last session. See the map here (it's loo large to attach to the post here).

Highland_Piper · November 2008

Thats a nice city map! Nice and neat.

I'm so jealous. My computer died and I'm stuck with my wifes laptop with no CC3!

JimP · November 2008

Hmm... Must be contagious then as my desktop failed to boot last weekend. No fans working, nothing. Long list of things I checked not posted.

Ralf · March 2010

Phew, long time no post. There are now some more examples of my a-map-a-session program on my blog. Some are just scribbles, and some are unfinished stuff, but I'm attaching at least the included city map in CC3 format to this post.

Ralf · March 2010

Next entry up in the a-map-a-session program.

Here's the CC3 version of Lharach on the Eternal Sea.

Ralf · March 2010

And another one, covering two sessions worth of maps.

And here's the CC3 file of the Yhosal-Monyr map.

Ralf · March 2010

The next blog entry is up and here is the cc3 version of the city map of Llannaid.

jaerdaph · March 2010

Thanks, Ralf! I'm so glad you're doing this again.

Ralf · March 2010

And here's the map from last Friday's game, meaning I'm current again with my entries.

You'll notice that this map is a cut-out part of my original campaign overview map - see the very first post in this thread. As the topic of cutting a regional map from a larger one comes up regularly, here's my way of doing it:

- Open up the larger map. And - on the topmost sheet - draw a highly visible (color 1), hollow rectangle across the area you want to cut out.
- Type CUTMENUON to activate the not-quite-supported cut menu.
- Choose "Cut - keep inside > Box" from the Cut menu.
- Select ALL entities, NOT the color 1 box. Do it.
- Use the Endpoint (F5) modifier to select the first corner of the color 1 box, then the opposite corner.

You should now have a map with only the entities inside and touching the cut-out box. You can now...
- use Path to Poly to close any polygons that have been cut by the box (e.g. landmasses, contours).
- You might then have to Add Nodes to match the polygons to the map border
- Scale all Symbols in Map to match the new map size.
- Add new symbols to fill in the gaps between the old ones.
- Change Text Properties to scale any text labels to the new size.
- Add any new features you need.

Ralf · March 2010

I've posted A-Map-a-Session #14 on my blog.

Here's the CC3 file of the map, which also serves as a sneak preview of the April Annual issue. Enjoy!

Rogdor · March 2010

It's great to see another example of the April Annual style, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on it.

The shadowing on the property lots gives it an unusual depth, that seems new compared to the other screenshots of the annual issue. Are some of those meant to indicate farm fields (like the ones at the top portion of the map)?

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