The map of Atel Dorn
Hi all,
I've been using CC3 for some times now, and I thought it might be nice to have some feedback on what I manage to do with it!
So here is one of my last maps, an archipelago where my Warlords games take place. I wanted a dark look to it, like the old Warhammer Rpg maps from 1st edition I loved so much as a kid (damn, I might be showing my age there!), or like those old renaissance maps, with many infos and a clustered look. I might tone it down a bit to make it more readable, I'm still unsure about this. Oh and I used the Sarah Wroot annual as a base !
Pat.
I've been using CC3 for some times now, and I thought it might be nice to have some feedback on what I manage to do with it!
So here is one of my last maps, an archipelago where my Warlords games take place. I wanted a dark look to it, like the old Warhammer Rpg maps from 1st edition I loved so much as a kid (damn, I might be showing my age there!), or like those old renaissance maps, with many infos and a clustered look. I might tone it down a bit to make it more readable, I'm still unsure about this. Oh and I used the Sarah Wroot annual as a base !
Pat.
Comments
Can I ask how you came up with the names of the places? Are they French? What does Toll mean?
I always have a hard time naming places, so I usually plunder other people's work for more original names lol. In this case, the fantasy names of the islands are actually based on elvish words, taken from an online tolkien elvish dictionnary (I use this one http://www.grey-company.org/Circle/language/search/Wordsearch.cgi?Language=Elven&Word=green) and reworked a bit.
So "Toll" is based on the elvish word 'tol' and means "isle". The other places are named using the same trick. For instance, Toll Kalen would be "the green island", quite a cliché name but once turned in faux elvish ("Kalen" is based on "Calen", the elvish word for "green") it doesn't sound so bad. "Toll Dena" would be "The middle island", I just changed the elvish word for "middle", "ened", by writing it backwards and using an "a" ending because it sounds prettier to my ears...
Quite a cheap trick, but it works
VERY nice map... a lot of hard work was put into that one.