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WIP Commission, Ancient Tombs
From the way you've done this, and your comments, I'm guessing this was originally a hex map with just the classic one symbol per hex, and that those hexes equate with the over-sized hexes you're mapping now. Are the "chicken-wire" smaller hexes part of the remit for this map? I know why they're probably there, if following the classic D&D/Judges Guild fashion, but maybe they could be toned-down a little for this one? They're a bit too distracting right now, especially with the empty expanses of sandy desert.
You could maybe add some wadi lines, scattered small rocks, even small patches of greenery (the rare desert rainstorms cause a rapid abundance of growth with many bright flowers for a short period, for instance) to help break-up the barren flatness of it all otherwise. And maybe try hiding the hex grid entirely while you do so, to avoid unconsciously following the hex-lines too closely.
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[WIP] Community Atlas - Ezrute - Dunor Valley - Strip map of Journey from Rocky Valley to Isendathin
Boustrephedon, no less!
Can't be sure about some of the spellings due to the font being used, but the Atlas maps have "Mt Sheizer", "Duneizen Citadel", "Cult of the Maenads", "Rechtatzen Tor". Also, I couldn't read the second word after "Sturmhund", but it looks too short to be "Citadel".
I appreciate the variant spellings may be more poetic licence as a player's map, not a GM's, but the nature of this map and the multiple original Atlas maps makes following it for a GM difficult enough now, without such variants. If you'd prefer to keep the spellings you have now, I'd recommend also preparing a separate, complete, though more schematic, map for GMs only, so they won't have to struggle so much to keep on top of things and run the game.
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[WIP] Community Atlas - River Watch - Druid villages
While these are fascinating explorations of different seasonal map depictions, are they really appropriate for a site around 25°N latitude on Nibirum? This puts the locations near the northern limit of the tropics for the planet (equivalent to the Tropic of Cancer on Earth). This would also mean the snowy mountains are a little too prevalent, I suspect.
Sorry if this is a bit late to be useful. I've not been paying as much attention to the Forum here recently as I might, so it's only just dawned on me.
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Add a Compass Rose
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Live Mapping: Tagkrammer Isometric (December Annual)
Just watched yesterday's live mapping video, and was fascinated by it. I've done almost nothing with Perspectives, so it was very useful to see what can be done using it, especially how to resolve things like the wall and floor outlining where pieces have been added at different times.
Trying to keep everything correct, where you have a stack of multiple Sheets with similar names to order overlapping elements in a map correctly, is certainly rather more familiar, however. I've spent parts of this week doing exactly that on one of my own non-Per3 maps!

