Thanks to both of you. I just noticed I don't have the Alyssa Faden Annual.

I've also noticed I had missed something very obvious: Mike Schley Overland has clouds... 🤗

I've also applied a very light gray transparent layer over the montains and "trees supposed to be farther away".

I'll take another look after I've slept. If I don't find anything else to improve, I'll upload the large version.

Third level - This is where things start go get interesting:

This is an abandoned experimental facility. It's purpose was to weaponize rock-creatures of the underdark that reproduce by multiplying through magic energies and a bath in certain substances.

The spidery "worker clones" climb up the central shaft to collect the mushrooms for the magic cloning baths. They also bring corpses to the mushrooms and dispose of the bones in the "waste room". They will only attack if their opponents are severely handicapped (such as when climbing), or as a last resort.

The Golem-like warriors are comparatively slow but very sturdy. They are activated only by magic command from the central control crystal (which will be at lvl 4), or when intruders attack the workers / trigger certain alarms.

The enchantments controlling the clones are slowly growing weaker, so both close types will occasionally display traces of their original behaviour, or simply erratic behavior before reverting back to "program".

Years ago, some adventurers dug a small tunnel that bypassed the portcullis from the main stairs. They then fell victim to the warrior clones.

Details of cloning and clone storage rooms:

"Stuff no one will ever notice" ;) : Outer magic circles drawn using the the bronze inlay texture from Marine Dungeons 2:

The waste disposal room, with the remains of two "decommissioned" worker clones:

Here are the first two villages on the Northwestern backroad.

Weidling, with an emptied but still used temple of the banned witch-goddess:

And Föhrenberg, where there's recently been a bit of unrest.

Larger versions are in my gallery - as usual.

Moving ahead - thanks again for solving my merge-layer issues, @Loopysue

Might still change the name, though this one's starting to grow on me.

The Northern city is pretty much complete now.

Will fill up the rest of the South - planning a larger stable / cart storage area for travelling merchants.

Then it's just final markings and finishing touches.

Finished the cavern underneath the monastery.

The four connections to the surface should allow the demon worshipped at the temple to climb up and play cat and mouse with my party. We'll see how it goes.

Think the map looks good but a tad plain - if you have any suggestions for improvement, please advise.

I've started mapping what's under the ruin of Iorek's Tower

The basement looks empty at first glance. There's a prison cell behind the secret door.

A (rather strong) prisoner managed to dig through the wall into the old tunnels behind - and eventually escaped through a hole he covered up with the boulder.

After his escape, he told others of the tunnels and the pit going deeper underground.

These old tunnels might just be the location of a long forgotten treasure my players - and some other people are searching for... at least that's the idea for now.

Will add the other levels as I progress. For now I haven't added lighting to keep the map readable.

Update. Finished the interiors and also updated the original Map to include the few changes that show with the roofs on.

Will see if I do the water caverns below next.

And here's the possibly final map for this chapter of our Chronicle.

My group was quicker than me finishing the map. They arrived, saw that the villain had been there before them (the corpse of the quest giver was...well ... a dead giveaway) and left in a hurry.

Finished the map anyway, as they might return later.

A larger version is in my gallery. And now I finally have a bit of "leisure map-playtime" :-).

Thanks a lot, Ricko.

had to fiddle around a bit to hide one or two"Dock houses" behind the palisade. I was also quite happy that the hedge gates were able to serve as "ok-ish" doors for the towers. The perspectives stuff uses different angles, so most of it is not so well suited for use with SS6.

The font is a "free for noncommercial use" one based on the handwriting of King Wenceslas of Bohemia. Was going for flavour over readability there.

Trying the other style variants right now. They look very good, but the Sepia is also Greyscale for me. Is that an issue with the beta, or how can I fix this?

Long time no see. Was quite real-life-busy.

Created this for tonight's Splittermond session. A convoy going to Rattenzwinge has been ambushed by the ratlings living in the Swamp. A small group of ratlings lies in waiting to ambush our heroes, as they investigate...

The colour of the water indicates dept:

Brownish = about shin-high

Light blue = Reaching up to belly-height

Dark blue = Up to one's head or deeper

There's a bit of Transparency Acne on the lower right. I've managed to eliminate the rest by playing around with print resolution and anti aliasing settings. Think I'll leave it as it is.

Detail shot of the central area.

A larger version is in my gallery.

Keep having a fine, long weekend! :)