Hallanicus WIP
Tonnichiwa
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Hello everyone
The Cartographer's Guild is turning 10 this month and they have decided to have a huge map made by anyone who wants to join in. So I threw my hat in the ring with my Kingdom of Hallanicus. I'm representing the Campaign Cartographer crowd by using cc3+ and the Mike Schley style (because it comes standard with cc3+) and because I really like the style.
Anyway, here is my Work In Progress map for it. Hopefully this site will allow me to upload it to a size you guys can see it in. Here goes.
The Cartographer's Guild is turning 10 this month and they have decided to have a huge map made by anyone who wants to join in. So I threw my hat in the ring with my Kingdom of Hallanicus. I'm representing the Campaign Cartographer crowd by using cc3+ and the Mike Schley style (because it comes standard with cc3+) and because I really like the style.
Anyway, here is my Work In Progress map for it. Hopefully this site will allow me to upload it to a size you guys can see it in. Here goes.
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I looks great so far, I am looking forward to seeing how it develops.
I love seeing the process.
I'll help you represent, if I get it finished in time
I will have to take a look at yours tomorrow when I can get online... I can't open it on my phone.
A lot of my larger areas are also named after different cheeses from around the world. Silly, but its a lot of fun.
My country is full of Dwarves and Humans that found a Minotaur culture and befriended them. They use the Minotaurs as warriors that protect the rest of the nation from invasion when other countries come to steal our cheese. The funny existential problem of my country is that the cows that produce the dairy products for my country are farmed by these same Minotaurs. It's sort of like humans and monkeys. Two different species so closely linked that it causes serious questions of religion for my Minotaur allies.
And my country trades its cheeses with the halflings for their wonderful pipeweed, and wars with other countries that are cheese haters.
Anyway, enough of that. It can get pretty silly.
The terraformer-thing was due to an accident of geography that caused the entire center of the main continent to be uninhabitably dry and hot to "normal" races. So it was keep everything underground or go with an obligate waterphobe that enforced the no-pass zone. It also a chance to work in elements of the devilgrass apocalypse and touch on what would happen if an AI learned to leverage non-standard local conditions to become self-augmenting.
It's been fun to watch the Hallanicus map develop. I'm still not sure about the low contrast between the text and the background (a small light-colored glow might help it stand out a little, especially at reduced size), but it's mostly pretty readable.
It's great to see your land develop too. I may have to come over there with some wonderful cheese choices and see what happens to your God when he tries them :P
That might get your text to stand out .more, but still look good. I used to do that years ago with paint shop pro, back when I was making HTML avatars..