A few of the labels are a little too close to the map edge - one or two seem to run slightly beyond it, e.g. Wirbilini Woods and Taggtrum R(iver) - which is another issue with text in CC, where the text's position shifts at different resolutions/export settings.

That can usually be solved by making sure you have the correct location point for the text before placing it (such as "mid left", "top right", etc.), because the text will only expand/contract away from that point, so it's effectively fixed to that spot. It can be tedious having to remember to change it every time if you're doing a lot of labels in different places, although you can use the shortcut arrow keys instead once the text is on your cursor to be placed.

You mentioned thinking of putting some elements onto a separate layer that could be toggled on and off. For this map, I think it's probably better to have both the regional borders and their labels on all the time. With just the labels, it's impossible to guess exactly what they refer to otherwise, including identifying how far Gongodur extends.

Disappointed we've lost the pogoing were-elks now (yes, yes, I know those were just dots marking the lines of the trails-to-be, but even so 😉)!

And this is the Village of the where? Ah, no, it's the "were(-something-still-to-be-added)".

Alderun Wood and Lake instead? Alder from the tree, and run from the river, say? And at a guess (knowing nothing much about Star Wars), Alderaan sounds likely a contraction of the real-world star-name Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus, the Bull.

Pleased we could help a little here!

I'd forgotten how much information had already been presented on this topic using the BEDMAP2 data - it was all a few years ago now we discussed it first, of course!

With online searching, sometimes it just needs an extra, or slightly different, word, and even then, you've often got to hunt through the list to track down the specific item of most use, assuming what you need is even there at all.

And I REALLY wish I could find the off switch for the dratted AI "findings" Google now insists on stuffing at the top of a search list, given these are almost always pure fantasy (their AI doesn't handle interpretation of factual data at all well, it seems).

Hexcrawl Toolbox was funded on Kickstarter in late 2022 and physically delivered in August last year (I backed the KS). The beta of the app has only just been released to KS backers last month, as although it was the final stretch goal for the campaign, it's been a year in development already - computers, you know 😉!

Next month, Games Omnivorous are launching their next in this line of hex products, "Boreal Frostlands", as a crowdfunding project on Backerkit. The artwork samples on the sign-up page there look just as wonderful as their previous products already!

Now you just need to make the orbital paths elliptical 😉!

I've grouped my Gallery maps by topics that I'll recognise and remember, which should also help guide anyone trying to look for something there as well, with the thumbnail image per topic. I don't think you can second-guess all the possible permutations others might find most useful for how to store maps on the Gallery, so I wouldn't worry over it unduly!

As most of my maps there are for the Atlas, there's an existing structure to follow with those anyway for me, storing them by region.

Very pleased this had been spotted as a problem and resolved, as it turns out I had a couple of folders on the "missing" page 2 that I'd completely forgotten were there! So thanks very much Royal Scribe and Monsen!

That's very disheartening. Is online RPGing a possibility for you? I know a number of Discords that have such groups, for instance, and I'm sure you could find one to better suit your preferred style of play, and in a suitable setting. I realise this may be impractical, of course, and not everyone (including me) would be able to, or comfortable with, online RPGing like that.

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).

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.

There is a mass of fractal entities on that sheet Cal, which is making things run VERY slowly overall, and it may be this which is causing you so much grief.

This is just from a very quick check through, however, and I'm sure Sue's assessment will be far more useful!