@Don Anderson Jr. , how is this for the skull and crossbones? One with entire skull, the other with missing jawbone.

I'll continue to play with ideas for a nautical theme. The test one that I posted up thread is of course far too complex for a small compass rose, though I may clean it up and include it anyway. It might make a decent map decoration or something.

Love seeing everyone's animals. 😍 I will certainly try to include the suggestions you make as I go.

Right now I'm trying to get the shading on chests to look right.

One of the things I've been experimenting with are decorative elements that can be placed on floors, tables, etc to looks like carvings. I'm still experimenting, but am getting closer to what I want. Like I said, this is going to take a while to make everything that I have in mind.

I'm starting to lay out a few details. I decided to reduce the size of the village by removing a few roads in the north. It would have been closer to town size, rather than village.

@Royal Scribe My problem is that I have volunteered myself for too many real life commitments, and they are all needed and worthy of my time. I fit making symbol art and maps into my down time, so I apologize for how long this is taking. Rest assured that even when I'm not actively posting here, that I am still plugging away at this.

@Quenten Yes, I plan to make the beds and curtains separate with both having vari-color options. This way I'll be able to make just a few different designs for for the curtains rather than multiple versions of each bed.

A few curtain ideas I'm currently playing with. These are just the rough design ideas that I'm working on currently.

Hello! I've converted many, many maps from CC2 to CC3 over the years. It can be tricky at times. Here's how to fix this one....

1. Open Symbols>Symbol Manager
2. Scroll down and click to select the Room Circle 1' symbol.
3. Click on edit then draw a bounding box across your screen. This opens the symbol in the editor.
4. Now Select Send to Back on the right hand button bar.
5. Right click within the editor window and select layer
6. Choose the walls layer, click OK, then Do it.
7. Close the editing window via the x to close and say yes to save.

You should be good to go. Give a shout here if you don't understand something.

I only had the bare minimum of art software loaded on my system so getting all of my ancient software loaded and functioning on Win10 was my first step. That's done.

Next up is creating the seamless textures as well as some bits and pieces that I might need. This involves trips around my local parks and green spaces to take pictures of old and rotting wood. This is where I'm at currently. I'll have to add more textures as I need them. I'm not sure yet what all I'll need and want. Here's what I have so far.

I started with Campaign Mapper from the Core Rules 2 software but when I could not get it to print because of old drivers I got CC2-v5. I think this was sometime in the late 90's. The software is a windows 95 version so dates are uncertain.

I've been away for a few years and am just trying to get back into gaming and mapping.

Thanks for your kind words AleD!

I'm mostly done with the first floor though I may tweak things here and there before I'm finished. I also need to define the scale somehow with out it looking more 'mappy' than I want. To be figured...

Again, the Pub roof is simply a Sheet that can be hidden or not.

Next up is the basement level.

I love competitions, not because I love competing, but because they push me to actually make time to create a map. So I'll be entering the map of the village of Ober in the Southern Scar.