In the chat, I asked if the style had any animal companions or familiars, and was told it doesn't. But now I'm wondering if the two Token Treasury add-ons could be used for that? I don't have those yet, so I don't know if those tokens can be used without their borders, nor whether they have suitable pet symbols. For those of you who do have the Token Treasury symbols, what do you think? Do they work well with Character Artist?

Also, one thing not mentioned in the video that I recall: I've seen some folks here illustrate their maps with characters in the margins, like the map's villain. But I have also seen some of you create beautiful illustrations using overland map symbols to create a background for their characters. Just wanted to throw out the idea that CA can work well with other mapping styles and doesn't have to be a solely stand-alone thing.

Oh yeah, that happens to me a lot (though 2006 was a decade before I had even heard of ProFantasy). One common example for me: I will often have a magenta polygon on multiple sheets when I'm using the Color Key cutout effect. Sometimes it's because I had to create an acne mask sheet between a WALL sheet and a sills sheet below it. Sometimes it's because I'm using the Color Key effect for to cut through land to create a river, but I also want it to cut through multiple terrain sheets. And sometimes when I mess up, I end up with the magenta polygon half a dozen times on each of those sheets. It's generally not that big of a deal but it can add some size to the FCW file if it's happening a lot. So this will be very helpful!

I like them!

For those who are interested in learning how to create these but learn better by watching, Ralf has a good tutorial about creating varicolor symbols, starting with the vector ones.

I have a coffee table book of his maps. His name is Isaac Dushku and his website is Lord of Maps.

My personal experiences are more with desktop publishing, not design. Used to be reasonably proficient with things like PageMaker and Quark and MS Publisher — none of which is useful here. I used the Corel suite in the 90s but haven’t owned it in decades. To create the circular symbols for my Modern Journeys map, I did download GIMP and learned just enough of it to be able to crop an image to a circle. But for quite a lot of stuff, I have used (of all things)…PowerPoint!

The funny thing is: although I am not an attorney, my day job in the business side of publishing requires me to be involved in copyright permissioning on a daily basis. Fonts, however, are a new wrinkle for me.

Thank you, good eye!

I had another idea: Hunting Lodge Trophies.

Taxidermied wall-mounted heads of typical hunting prey (deer, bears, boars, maybe mythological creatures)

Bear-skinned rugs

Weapons display rack

Welcome, Ryan! One more thing, which you might already be planning to do: when you break it down into smaller regional maps, you can then add more details that might be too small for this map. I'm not certain what scale this map is, but for example, this map might only have the major rivers, but smaller rivers and streams might then show up on your regional maps. Or this may only have major cities, with smaller villages and hamlets being too small for this scale until you start to break it down. That gives you the freedom to follow creative inspiration as you dive in deeper.

Looking forward to seeing more!

Sap Core map has so many amazing details! I don't recall seeing those craters before. Are they from Mike Schley Overland?