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  • [WIP] Tyr Alomere Township

    I have been out of town this week with family distractions, but I also had the week off of work, so I had a little time to dabble in mapping. I have been working on a township around the wizard's tower I mapped (you can find the exterior and interior maps of the tower in separate threads).

    This is intended for the Atlas, in the Gold Coast region on the edges of the Kingdom of Vacturia, nestled in the foothills beneath Mt. Alomere. It is circled in yellow here:

    The wizard's tower has been handed down through many generations to one of the wizard's apprentices (often but not always one of the wizard's own children). The town's economy has grown up around the presence of a mighty wizard in residence -- specifically catering to the adventurers and travelers who pass through. Many seek out the wizard for advice on an upcoming quest, or to decipher a prophesy. Some seek to have curses removed, magic items identified, or to stock up on potions and scrolls. The town, too, caters to the adventurers by providing services used by many adventurers. The blacksmith in particular has a busy trade not only in mending armor but also reselling used armor and arms bought from adventurers.

    Since the town is in the foothills, I wanted to do some elevation changes. The wizard's tower was built on a Creepy Crypts base, so I continued with that, but also added cliffs and outcrops from Forest Trails and Darklands City.

    I have been wanting to do a Roman-style villa for a while, so I decided to create a place for it here. I have added the RGB Matrix effect to the sheets the villa is on to make the Darklands City roof tiles redder.

    I still have more to do, particularly thatched houses and farms closer to the walls. I wrote in labels but will replace them with larger numbers, with a legend off to the side.

    Anyway, here's the township so far.


    QuentenLoopysueRickoMaidhc O CasainDakMonsenRyan ThomasLautar85Calibre
  • Live Mapping: Black and White Fantasy

    I won’t be able to make it to the Live this week — visiting family and going with my Dad or his speech therapy class. I will watch the recording later today. Have a good chat, everyone!

    Loopysue
  • WIP: My version of Royal Scribe's Most Excellent Wizard Tower

    My pleasure! Like I said, I'm thrilled to pieces that it's being used. If it ends up being used in a campaign, I'd love to hear what happened.

    Don Anderson Jr.Calibre
  • [WIP] Wizard's Tower - Interior

    Here is the third level of the basement, and the final level of the Wizard's Tower.

    It's the part of the municipal sewers that connects beneath the wizard's estate. Pipes bring water from the river to the wells used in the tower and on the grounds, as well as the subterranean pond featured in Basement 2. Sewage comes in from the WC shaft from the tower as well as to other places on the grounds: the outhouse (next to the servants' house), and a manure shaft in the barn.

    Another shaft on the northern side of this map is from the pit for debris and other waste. Gelatinous cubes will digest any soft tissue (like rinds and peels from fruits and vegetables, as well as leaves and other foliage). Garbage that it can't digest (like bones, hardwood, and stone) get "stuck" in the gelatinous cube but then gets expelled when the cube moves up a slope. There's a whole ecology to these sewers that I wrote up a year ago, and will write up in more detail in the description when this is submitted to the Atlas.

    FYI, here are the ProFantasy products used on this level:

    There were more that were inherited from previous levels, but were cleaned out of the Symbols Manager when I used the "purge" button:


    LoopysueDon Anderson Jr.
  • WIP: My version of Royal Scribe's Most Excellent Wizard Tower

    Awesome. Out of curiosity, where are you getting the substitute fills from?

    Calibre