Yes, that's it Sue. It helps make the water texture look more like broad-scale ocean waves, and the land textures more like the smaller-scale surface undulations you find there, at least to my eye/mind.

[Now just wait for the chorus of disapproval from everyone else 😉]

Not sure if there may be something like this among the free icon resources listed here, though I don't recall an actual Egyptian burial barge from them offhand (I'm not especially familiar with all these options, however).

There is though a specific top-down, ancient Egyptian barge symbol in this paid-for icon pack from Inkwell Ideas, amongst other items. You'll need to convert the PNG artwork from that to symbols you can use in CC3+, if you need the items as symbols, but that's pretty straightforward.

As Sue commented, Remy's notes say it all.

I've been following how things had gone for Jim since his last Forum posting back in April, thanks to Sue and Remy, and indeed it has been a very sad ending to one of the finest fellows in our community.

Jim no doubt has other, greater, adventures to map now. Hopefully, some of his inspiration can live on among all of us. Farewell Rutabagasteu (his YouTube handle).

Third map in this group, for the Hall of the Seer, was actually drafted first, using the same style and look as established for all four underground maps in this "Explorer" dice batch, using the two dice designs involved for the layouts of the above-ground and subterranean segments, as mentioned last time. It was really this map though that led to establishing the "gritty" look of the stone-edged roads and paths outside, largely to help give a better contrast between the outside and inside of this little complex. Originally, I did think of just using gravel-filled polygons for the roads, but that appeared confusing with the similar dot-shading to represent the solid interior of the hill lying adjacent to the entrances. Ultimately, I did use the polygon drawing tool for both, altered by the stone edging outside, which with the trees, buildings and blank ground surface seemed to provide sufficient contrast.

For the internal layout, this was largely what the dice designs provided, omitting the geomorphic connectors in places beyond this layout, and adding one secret door between rooms 9 and 12, as I wanted to provide an inner sanctum as the private domain of the Seer herself. This was chiefly because (and there are hints in the label descriptions) that the Seer had been randomly determined as a Frost Dragon from Shadowdark, modified here to be also an ancient, prophetic creature, able to shapechange to various forms under the local magical influences. There are also three "ordinary" Ice Dwarf Oracles as well (lesser, humanoid seers, in effect), who live in the Village, and provide aid and prophecies here too, when required. I decided to really push the legendary significance, importance and reliability of the Seer - who has the randomly-determined name of Leminsiskiel - to help enhance the significance of this little site overall. After all, there needs to be a serious reason for folks to traipse across the vast, frozen wastes of the surrounding larger region to get here!

As ever, there's more detail in the accompanying notes for the Atlas as to how the set-up here works, as it's not really intended as the traditional kill-the-monsters-and-steal-their-treasure dungeon, more a living place of importance for the lands around - and perhaps even further afield.

Next time, I'm heading off to map somewhere a little more tropical, a site in the Demosthenes Swamp of central-southern Artemisia, according to the random rolls...

Just caught-up with the livestream VOD, and while obviously disappointed that Ralf didn't go with the peppermint volcano options (or early varicolor test if you prefer), it is a fun drawing!

Slightly weird that the VOD continued on through what was a break in transmission for the live viewers, but that's what happens when you're broadcasting from a strobing disco, as Ralf was 😉. Hopefully, whatever was causing that effect can be resolved before next time, as it was a little distracting at times.

I could have done with these hive symbols 2½ years ago, when I was preparing my giant ant nest map for the Community Atlas (Queen Mica's Scintillant Palace - Forum topic and Atlas link)!