Half of my co-workers (scattered around the U.S. and the world) are either snowed-in or have temporarily left their homes for safer weather conditions. Meanwhile, here in San Francisco, it's a not unpleasant 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14.4 C).

But cold weather is on my mind, and it inspired me to create ruins with the Ice Cave annual. This is the ruins of a dwarven temple that has been overcome by the weather, perhaps magically conjured. (Elsa, are you there?) All of the entrance staircases have been snowed-in. Although the rest of the temple remains snow-free, the walls have turned to ice, and icy frost creeps along the floor from the edges of the walls. Even the geothermal baths in the southeast corner have turned to ice.

(I originally had the entrance to those baths coming from the east, but the cutout ended up looking distractingly like a copyright symbol.)

The ten sarcophagi in the crypts have their lids pushed aside, and their contents are empty. Not so coincidentally, there are also ten skeletons in the antechamber of the Great Tomb -- perhaps rising to defend the remains of whomever lies in rest there?

On the northern side, a break in a wall leads to icy caverns and a cluster of large crystals, swirling with magic. Perhaps the source of this icy disturbance?

Good luck with the renovations -- hope you're able to join the chats again soon. I'm glad the videos are saved (I watched so many before joining the live chats!) but it's too bad YouTube doesn't also save the chats.

I'm looking forward to seeing this, if you'd like to share your work in progress.

I'm planning to design a mostly-underground dwarven city, and will have a separate FCW file for each level of the city. My usual approach is to create one level, then make a copy of that FCW file for the next level. That way, all of the new sheets and sheet effects don't have to be recreated each time. But with that approach, I then have to add the navigation links at the end and copy them into each FCW file.

If you follow Sue's approach, that automatically creates all of the individual FCW files and then adds all of the hyperlinks for each level, simplifying it. (And you can always change the font type and size of the automated navigation links later if you want.) If you don't plan to add lots of new sheets or sheet effects, it's a more straightforward way of doing it.

Happy holidays, Quenten, and everyone else here.

I recommend saving your maps in within your Documents folder, not with the software or the assets.