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  • Wish List: City/Dungeon Top-Down Mountain Peaks, Ridges & Crags

    And not that we had any reason to think Winter Trail/Winter Village would be different, but just for fun, here's a sliver of an alpine village.


    MonsenDon Anderson Jr.LoopysueRyan Thomas
  • [WIP] The Wizard of Schley

    Added the path to the well and the hitching posts (not stocks), and made some other adjustments. Working on the basement (but I have a recent urge to design a small research vessel in Cosmographer, which I've never really played with so I might get hijacked).

    It's fun having a chance to use Mike Schley's latest symbols.



    QuentenLoopysueGlitchRyan ThomasRicko
  • Too early for a CC4 wishlist thread, or is it timely?

    Grouping LAYERS and SHEETS would be awesome.

    Yes -- or allowing things to have multiple layers (so, for example, a symbol for a particular building on a city map may be on one layer for the type of building and another for its neighborhood).

    I do tend to use layers mostly to be able to hide/unhide groups of things together. For example, in my dwarven mines, the mountaintop and all of the terrain and rock symbols associated with it were on one layer so I could cut off the top of the mountain to peer inside the mine with just hiding one layer. Or for a secret treasure chamber, the walls, floors, and symbols may all be on the GAME MASTER ONLY layer to hide or reveal all of them at once. Occasionally I'm faced with the choice of wanting it to be on multiple layers. I suppose that could get confusing, though, if one of those layers is hidden and the other is not.

    (At this point, I suspect this thread may morph into a CC4-Plus thread.)

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • Wish List: City/Dungeon Top-Down Mountain Peaks, Ridges & Crags

    So when Sue asked if I had tried stacking cliff symbols, I had...but always in the same direction, which gave me elevation but didn't give me ridges. I just tried flipping the Forest Trail cliff symbols so they're back-t0-back -- and these are exactly the sort of ridge lines I was imagining.

    These symbols blend together so beautifully. Truly amazing, Sue! Very excited to start planning a mountain village.

    LoopysueDon Anderson Jr.BwenGunMonsenroflo1GlitchFrosty
  • [WIP] Lair of the Red Wyrme

    Made a few tweaks. I think some of the smaller mountains in the foreground were repeating, so I swapped out a few, including adding one with a mountain pass. That may be one route that adventurers could take to reach the dragon's lair. (Another possible entrance is a cave in a small hill in the jungle area that connects to a network of underground caverns.)

    Also added a little crevasse separating the jungle from the swamp.


    LoopysueDon Anderson Jr.Monsen