It's the same in physics, Jim; "Big Bang Theory" TV show reused the spherical cow as a spherical chicken instead as a joke. All most amusing, even if sadly all-too true as well!

Just turn the lights off, and ask them "does the dark matter?" 😉

It's because it's a snowflake design really, Sue - we can tell! 😉❄️

Hadn't come across the Branconia RPG before (there's a lot of RPGs I haven't - so many RPGs, so little time...). I see it describes itself as "Spaghetti Fantasy", and I'd recommend a quick review of the short video on any of the DTRPG pages off AleD's link in the first posting here - Ennio Morricone-ish music meets Italian Fantasy gaming!

Or maybe even swapping out the dark lettering for a much paler colour, and adding a darker outer glow to it, as that sometimes helps. Getting text right is always tricky though.

It does also depend what sort of effect you're looking for. If you want to make it look like a boundary line, for instance, you might try a polygon with an Edge Fade, Inner effect on its sheet, and adjust that till it looks right. Or you could try adding a Glow effect to the various symbols involved, if they're actually the key things (though it sounds more as if it's the whole region you're wanting to highlight).

Best advice would probably be to keep experimenting and thinking about what you'd prefer to see; playing around with the options in the CC3+ effects is never time wasted, even if you can't get quite to where you'd originally thought you might!

Though the "standardised" abbey plan only really works - if sometimes quite loosely - for medieval European monastic sites, notably those of the Cistercian and Benedictine orders.

Clearly a delightful spot; very tempting for a dragon...😉

If you have it, you might be interested in trying out the sketchy contour line symbols in the Black & White Towns CA issue from 2015, which are similar in appearance to those in your castle hill lines (though naturally, you'd need to add your own background colouring for those, as B&W only).

Nah - it's just a pond named after somebody called "Dew" 😁

Surprised to see nobody's asked for a cat yet. After all, the cat crept into the crypt...💩...and crept out again 😉