Oh! Interesting. I was under the impression that vector symbols use more system resources than raster symbols because (I thought) there were more mathematical computations with vector.

Your campaign city sounds fascinating!

Yeah, I think one of my roof ridge lines disappeared. It is sloped down to the larger pool in the center of the northern courtyard. Here are some links to other websites I used for inpiration.

Did the same thing when I was getting started and it took me forever to figure out that right-clicking again would collapse it. Glad you're posting these questions -- everyone here is very friendly and happy to help.

Congratulations on your first map! It’s looks great. Ans I agree with you: it is oddly therapeutic and calming. I like that it’s simultaneously exercising my creativity and my analytical/problem solving sides.

I forgot about my early mapping influences from fantasy/sci fi literature, prior to discovering D&D. The Lord of the Rings was huge, naturally (I even had Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle Earth). And then the maps from Pern, and The Land from Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels.

But I forgot that the earliest for me was the maps from The Wizard of Oz books. I was obsessed with those books from around the ages of 7 to 10. I would draw the map from memory over and over again. I started to do a version in CC3 but got distracted by other projects. (The map is now in public domain so no copyright infringement!)

Around the same time, while our teacher was reading stories to us, I would doodle side-view maps of underground mansions inspired by an illustration from the children's book Babar and Father Christmas, which you can see on the bottom of this page:

https://imaginaryelevators.blog/2021/12/21/babar-je-taime/

I probably will! I've started doing that when mapping with Mike Schley's overland and city styles.

Jack heard “mouse” nd had to take charge.

How large is your map? I just fiddled around with Spectrum Overland on a small 50x50 map, and the Edge Fade, Inner effects on the FARMLAND sheet was too much for a tiny map. I had to reduce the edge width for it to work.

What a fun adventure for them. "Castle Measles" made me laugh. Sounds like a very dangerous place!

@KertDawg I haven’t really given it thought. I’ve never played with people where I wasn’t already friends with at least most of them in real life. Maybe! I will see how much time this Pathfinder game takes first.