Had a rather productive Easter Monday:

Added the shipyards and another residential island.

The close proximity to the "important small pact island" (no. 14) gave me the idea for another storyline, and so I've also added a bit of an open air dungeon (no. 13).

Played around with the global map effects switch a bit (Thanks again Monsen), but still on the fence whether I should include the overlays in the Source map.

Then I added the Buttons, Parchment background and cartouches. Enough work for today. The only thing i might still add is some Island / large channel names. I'm a bit tempted to ask my players if they have some time this evening...

My current work in progress:

This is basically going to be a fantasy version of Venice, hugely affected by pacts with faery lords / fey in general.

Thanks a lot to the creators of this style. It's very easy to use and I have not faced any issues apart from one very minor case of transparency acne.

I'm currently planning to add more piers and boats. I might also add another island with shipbuilding facilities (even with magic, it's pretty hard to operate a maritime city without your own boats...).

Also trying out different layout options: Might use a different banner colour, but moving the city to the right looks good - leaves more room for Explanations and annotations on the left side.

I've also created a draft "fey activity heat map" to keep track of my thoughts in that regard.

What do you think about it so far?

Here are a few maps I created for our RPG campaign in a China-inspired kingdom.

The area we played in was inspired by the sandstone pillars and mountains meet forests - landscape of the Wulinguan area.

I created them in relatively short time - which means that they lack a little polish. But having to find the right "style for the job" quickly got me into using some styles and effects I had previously ignored.

First: "The foggy forest", a map of the general area the group was travelling through. I used the CA106 "Ancient Rnealms" style, with a few symbols from Mike Schley's overland style.

Then "Strong Hedge", the village in the center of the map. It uses a briar hedge as the first line of defense against the wild animals / roaming monsters. My group actually chose to follow the small dotted path trough the forest, never setting foot near the village... but it's good to have a village map ready, just in case. ;)

This map was created using a mix of standard bitmap city map style and annual content.

Greeting, dear fellow mappers.

After mapping around for a about a year (and already gaining lots of useful tips and hints from here) I've finally decided to also join the forum.

Starting out I had mostly used Dungeons and Cities of Schley to create battle- and city maps for classic medieval pen & paper RPG sessions, but recently I've tried out several other styles (and style mixes).

I'm currently working on a faery influenced Venice-like city using the serpentine cities style and several China-inspired battle-regional and city maps for one of our ongoing pen and paper campaigns.

Glad to be here. Will probably start posting maps and questions soon. 🙂

Hello dear fellow mappers.

I would love some bonus content for dungeon maps / floorplans, especially SS4.

It's a beautiful style, but the rather unique look sometimes makes it difficult to substitute other assets if I really, really need a symbol that's not in the catalogue.

Monsen's suggestions are already pretty good.

I would add:

• The Necromancer's room
• 1001 nights
• The Far East
• The Jungle
• Various creature packs

I would also welcome Japanese / Chinese / Indonesian add-ons for the Mike Schley Overland style or additional Content for Cities of Schley.