Royal Scribe
Royal Scribe
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- February 5, 1968
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- Kevin
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Dalvik, a town in Frostlund
I'm glad you posted the larger one in the gallery because my aging eyes would have missed so many wonderful details.
Things I love:
- The wooden palisade. How did you make them? I believe Schley's symbols are straight segments.
- The rocky outcrop (like a natural pier?) that the Dalvik Tower is on.
- How you've done your legend. I've seen Ralf do that approach but I haven't done it myself yet. It's...legendary.
- Your creatively-shaped buildings like #59, Excellent Carts by Bardsson.
- Halfling neighborhood near Delvik Mere.
- The Zavebog Henge!
- Use of the latest symbols at Potter's Field.
Things I don't love:
- Nothing. I love everything.
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WIP - Wayward Village and Inn
I just remembered something I saw another mapper do (it might have been Royal, I can't remember now), but if you put a Color Key on the GRID sheet you can cut out neat rectangles around your blocks of text so there's no tangling of hex lines and letter lines at all.
It wasn't me, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've always just used glows with the text to make it stand out against gridlines, but I really like the Color Key idea. My maps sometimes have thousands of magenta polygons, so why not a few more! 😉
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[Atlas Submission] - Doriant - Gold Coast - Eknapata Desert - Sakherma Ruins
Oooops. Lordy. Fixed the FCW and the posted image (checked the PDF and it was already correct). You'll be so not shocked to hear that I got just a reminder from my doctor's office to schedule my annual ophthalmology exam. 😉
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[WIP] Lair of the Red Wyrme
Maybe that’s what took out the one at the base of the erupting volcano.
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[WIP] The Griffon's Eyrie Redux: Spectrum Overland
Made some adjustments, including (if this doesn't step on any toes) changing it to be a wyvern's eyrie. Fixed some trees on the wrong sheet, and decided to change the sea at the base on the cliffs so that's it's only off to one side, with jungle on the other side.
Adjusted the nighttime one, too. Previously, I mimicked night by adding the SOLID 30 fill over everything. This time I used lighting effects instead with a 65% ambient light. That allowed me to add a little extra light over the eggs. It's subtle, maybe too subtle to notice (though it's a bit more apparent when compared to a version that has that turned off). I had a moon but I didn't care for it, so I removed it. Does anyone know if there are crescent moon symbols? My campaign world has three moons, but I wouldn't want them to always all be full.
Here it is with the galactic night sky.
And just so you can see it with and without the extra light over the eggs, here's a side by side comparison with the light symbol sheet hidden and unhidden.
