City Designer & the Underdark
Hy everyone. I'm in the process of writing a D&D campaign that will take place in the gloomy Underdark. Does City Designer 3 do gloomy and Underdark-y? I googled like mad trying to find images, but everything I found was pretty vibrant over-world type stuff. I suppose the same question applies to the CC3 as well. Any links to images would be very much appreciated.
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For "overland" underdark map I highly recommend the 2016 annual, which contains the Dungeon Worlds issue.
There are also four great community packs available, some of them may have additional symbols you find helpful.
The problem with the Underdark is finding symbols to represent the buildings. This months Annual has revamped the dark fantasy symbol pack which could be used. The symbols are a little 'vectory' for my liking.
There's no reason why you could not achieve a convincing Underdark map though.
I know it's more a "me" thing. But I've always wondered how other thought of it and interpreted such maps.
On one of my Crestar cities, Dtillan Orsti, I drew geomorphs. As an example: 25 of them for various parks. Some nice, some overgrown, some intact buildings, some ruins, etc.
I had originally thought of making my Crestar overland maps at the same scale as a backpacking map. 1 inch equals 2,000 feet. After thinking about it, I realized there aren't enough lifetimes for me to do that. Also why I stopped working on super detailed maps of my Starship Wanderer. Its a number of cubic miles in size, carries over 5,000 people, etc.
So my opinion is that super detail is hinted at, otherwise it becomes a burden.
In all this, I've tended to be heavily influenced by fantasy fiction authors, who usually describe just a single traversable subterranean route, however convoluted, but one which may also have side-tracks that are usually, but not always, ignored. (Gollum, gollum...).
I can remember asking all kinds of silly stuff myself :P
(and sometimes I still do!)
Edit: oops, I was trying to post it as a screenie!