Richard Baker's World Builder's Guide Map Templates
I was looking for the templates for the World Builder's Guide that came out a long time ago. I remember downloading them a while back, but I can't find what I did with them. Are they still available? Does anybody know where I can get them? I was able to find printable versions, but there were templates made specifically for Campaign Cartographer.
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Just log into your account. You should see all of the download links.
Where would I find the links? I don't see anything for any maps or templates that I have downloaded.
Was this a Profantasy product, or was it something published by Mr Baker himself that happens to work with CC3?
I have the whole set of everything Profantasy, and this doesn't seem to be part of it.
I agree with Sue. I also have everything, and that isn't in my folders.
After a fair amount of online hunting, I've drawn a blank over any electronic templates for this book at all, assuming this (DTRPG link) is the World Builder's Guide this topic refers to. What I can trace of Richard Baker's blogs online don't seem to go back far enough to cover the period this text was published (1996), but as he's still active online now, you may be able to find links on his blog somewhere (if this was something personal he put out, say), or at least make direct contact with him that way to ask. He's easy enough to find online, so I've not added links for the currently-active blog here.
If the templates were something that was on his older Wizards of the Coast blog, I think that has all gone - at least none of the links I can find to it seem to work any more. If you have an actual URL, you might try the Wayback Machine archive site, in case it's preserved there though.
Of course, if the electronic CC templates were created and made available by someone else, that may be more problematic to find.
Yest, that is the book I'm referring to. I am almost certain that I got the CC map templates from the profantasy site (not official, but downloadable resources possibly created by map makers). Specifically, I am looking for the polyhedral world maps that were included. Unfortunately, I can't find them in my files. I remember they were CC templates that could be used for creating new maps in CC.
Below is what one of the maps looks like.
I have the guidebook mentioned, but no templates - perhaps it as in a supplement which i do not have.
OK. I think this might be what you're remembering: World Builder's Guidebook Templates, drawn by Walter E Starr.
They're in the old ProFantasy Map Library. Although this is still on the PF website, it's not easy to find, as there's no direct link to it from the site any longer. Luckily, there are links on some of the Forum topics, providing you can remember where to look...
Hope that solves the problem!
Wow, Wyvern! I must ask you to help me more with my own research!
Pig-headed stubbornness has its advantages sometimes Sue 😉
Thank you! You are a Golden God! This is exactly what I was looking for.
I knew I wasn't crazy.
Glad to be able to help!
Honestly, I was about to attempt to make them myself (and I'm not very precise with those type of things. It would have been difficult to do the hexes. This saves me so much time!
The hexes you could draw in CC3+ quite easily just using either the grid options, or by-hand using the snap grids (though the latter is VERY time-consuming and tedious for a whole sheet!). But it's indeed a lot easier, given the number of different files in this set, to be able to recover them all in one go this way!
Brilliant work, Wyvern, thank you so much
You're welcome, Quenten!
I do wonder what other gems might be hidden among the old Map Library files. I checked though quite a lot of what was available there when I first got CC3 (as it was then; about ten years ago now, when the Library was still easy to find), but wouldn't have thought to check for items like this then. I was mostly interested in new symbols back then, though most - probably all; I forget now - were vector types, of course, many from the days of CC2 or before, I suspect.
Somewhere on a backup something I have the JG hexagon templates. And I downloaded some files from the library. It would take me some days of searching to find them though.
I might look over the map library again.
I have those two Judges Guild hex templates too, Jim. A quick search found them here on the Map Library, should they be of use to anyone else.
Yup, I'm downloading from the library for ideas.
edit: Village of Tor came up 404 not found.
Interesting. I didn't see them as I paged through the list with small thumbnail screenshots.
Thanks Wyvern !
edit: I searched for templates, and just now saw the list of 32 such files.
You're welcome, Jim!
Yes, the search facility does take a bit of thought, as it often doesn't seem to come up with the goods on some of the more obvious keywords (found that already yesterday...).
i see many are for CC2/CC2Pro. But I just want to look at them. Maybe get an idea or five.
Wow... it looks like this thread unlocked a potential treasure chest. I'm glad I posted it. Not only did I get what I was looking for (thanks Wyvern), but it looks like other lost treasures are being revealed as well.
We have taken off in different directions from time to time. Some useful, some just funny. I think.
Yeah, I tend to get a bit nervous veering too far off-topic hijacking someone else's topic, but I think the JG templates, being hex-based as well, do have relevance here, especially as they were first designed for use with the original D&D rules.
It's all good to me. You solved my initial question. I don't consider this thread to have gone off topic, just expanded past the initial inquiry.