Made good progress this morning. I got the Riverlands inset finished, and I think I've got most everything put in the Southern Wastes (though I need to make room to label the actual Wastes). I got the Escarpment around the Wastes finished up as well.

All right, I think I'm calling this one done.

I started an Excel file several years ago to keep up. I enter every new issue into the file for reference. Not something I have to use very often, but when I do it's handy!

Well, that was more of an undertaking than I thought it would be, because of the way I set the map up originally. I've got three background layers (Cobblestone, Dirt and Grass), and used Color Key to mask them in different combinations to make the road and the dirt areas show through the grass. BUT, I think I've got it now. I softened up the edges of the road and dirt areas a little as well.

I've been (re)reading P.C. Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath, and decided to take a stab at interpreting the world map. It seemed to me like Herwin Wielink's style is a great fit for the feel of this world (though there are a few others as well that I might also try).

I still have quite a bit of work to do, but I made a good start today.

Here's the original by Ms. Hodgell that I'm working from:

Wow! So many interesting people here, with so much excellent life experience! I'm very mundane by comparison, I'm afraid.

I'm 53 years old, so somewhere in the middle of the pack age-wise. I've been playing RPGs since the Blue Box edition of D&D back in the 70's. I've dabbled in a few different systems - D&D, Shadowrun (1st Edition), HERO, Fantasy Wargames, Savage Worlds, CHILL, and a few others.

I've been a mental health counselor since the early 1990's, and now manage an outpatient community mental health center in an economically depressed, rural area in the mid-southern U.S.

My wife and I have been married 24 years, and we've got a 17 year old daughter and a 6 year old son.

Though I've always loved computers and what one can do with them I mapped by hand with colored pencils until I found CC2, and jumped into computer assisted cartography with both feet.

Maidhc is pronounced "Mike," and O Casain is - as best I can tell - the original Gaelic of my family name.

I guess that's about it.

My old Junior High School gaming group has been in touch and playing together since I was 12, so a bit over 40 years now. Some 16 or 17 years ago we'd spread far and wide enough across the States that we had to start gaming via Play by Post if we were going to at all. In 2006, we started "LakeCon." Late each October we all get together at a cabin here in Arkansas (some travelling 10 or 12 hours by car, some have to fly as the drive would be a day or more, and some 'fairly' local). We commemorated LakeCon 10 in 2016 with a tee shirt that I designed by taking an architectural rendering of the cabin where we gather and putting in a looming dragon. I was asked to do another for our pandemic gathering this year...

Would anyone besides me be interested in a post apocalyptic style? Gamma World, I am Legend, Gears of War, Mad Max, The Book of Eli, Hell Divers... Or any one of a number of other movies, books or games.

Grungy, barren, mutated plants and animals, destructed beauty, hot zones, crumbled streets, destroyed by tsunamis, moon cracked by meteor impact, full on humanity struggling to survive post apocalypse?

I'd love to see an annual for this!

Also, I'm learning to wake surf (since I'm not close enough to real surf to make learning that practical).

You're very welcome, Ricko! This was super fun for me!