For all the shy ones out there!
Hi everybody!
I just wanted to start a discussion where all the ones out there who might be too shy or too afraid to post their work a chance to see what a true tyro can do to mess up a map. If I can do this, anyone can. Plus I challenge all those pros out there to put some maps they're not necessarily as proud of as they might be to see what everyone says. I'll start. This one is a mish mash of styles, and it has a lot of problems with it; and I invite all the criticism that can be mustered over it. I will include the .fcw file so people can do whatever they want to it (all I ask is that you explain is how you did it.)
With all thanks,
Nacon4
I just wanted to start a discussion where all the ones out there who might be too shy or too afraid to post their work a chance to see what a true tyro can do to mess up a map. If I can do this, anyone can. Plus I challenge all those pros out there to put some maps they're not necessarily as proud of as they might be to see what everyone says. I'll start. This one is a mish mash of styles, and it has a lot of problems with it; and I invite all the criticism that can be mustered over it. I will include the .fcw file so people can do whatever they want to it (all I ask is that you explain is how you did it.)
With all thanks,
Nacon4
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a couple things I like: the wording in the original is easy to read
the mountains in the sea is a nice original way of doing islands
I haven't yet started an outdoor map - still working on my dungeon maps and needed symbols so sidetracked into that realm too...
@JMunsonII, Well, I was planning on saying that the map was made by a Duke who'd gone across the island and who'd made the map, at or about the time when he went mad.
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No, comments like that make me grow! Yeah, it looks boxy to me too.
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My thinking is that this place was originally colonized from another land and was a penal colony. The Feywild used to be much bigger and it was the humans that decimated it. The Orc's that somehow got a foothold on the island later; and the Elves and Orcs started fighting (ending in the great battle south of the cursed pyramid) and those Orc's lost. It turned into such a rout that all the eastern Orcs were exterminated and the evil wizards/witches were chased north of the Hope Monastery to a mountain that was blasted to bits (and turned into the cursed chasm that the brothers and monks of the Hope Monastery cast protection and binding spells today for).
Well, as you can see. Even if my work is subpar; I still want to make it work, somehow.
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(Edit: I also put some more mountains into the Deadly Hills to give it a more mountainous feel.)
Boxy? I wouldn't worry about that. If the map is meant to be one made by someone living in the fantasy world, that's just how they believed it was. Mistakes are what adventuring parties are there to investigate, after all!