It's a useful style for creating a rough idea of what I want to map, but somewhat limited in symbols. I like the idea of doing a sketch with this style and a more detailed version in another, with this style on hand to give to adventurers when the time is right. I love the idea of using this pencil sketch style for a map handed to adventurers by some weary ranger in a tavern who has scrawled out a quick idea of where the adventurers need to go -- while omitting many of the perils they'll encounter on the way.

Tyr Alomere Tower - Floor 5

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Description

This floor is entirely devoted to guest accommodations. The best suite includes a spacious sitting room with a fireplace and a rare upper-story sink with running water, and best of all, a balcony overlooking the river and gardens. The second best doesn’t have a balcony, but does have an extra large window in the sitting and a double window with garden views in the bedroom. Both of these suites are large enough to accommodate an entire adventuring party if they don’t want to split up and some are willing to sleep on couches or the floor. There is also a third, much smaller room without a lounge, as well as a WC and bathing chamber.

1. Balcony Suite

2. Garden View Suite

3. Guest Bedroom

4. WC

5. Bathing Chamber

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.

Thank you, good eye!

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.

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

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!

I just assumed some ents were going swimming. 😉