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  • OSR Dungeons - The Goblin Outpost and the Lost Tomb

    Fragmented walls are - as shown - for surface ruins, although you could use them for a partially collapsed underground area too. The symbols in this OSR style can be as versatile as you make them, mostly because they're not always obvious as to what they're meant to be (name-labels notwithstanding!).

    Royal Scribe
  • Hex Crawl Test

    Looks nice!

    Maybe a bit more contrast for the river and road lines in places, so they pop better on the greyscale?

    Loopysue
  • Live Mapping: OSR Dungeons

    @Loopysue said: At the last count I think there were already more than 200 of them.

    I'm sure we're all shocked to learn you don't remember every one, and all the time-codes for every single item discussed in them, Sue ๐Ÿ˜‰!

    Loopysue
  • Printing maps from PDF?

    I haven't done a lot of printing to true scale like this. However, when doing test prints of any map, I simply save it as a rectangular section .JPG, then transfer that image to MS Publisher (albeit not for much longer, as MS is to withdraw support and cease the program shortly...), because there, I can set the image up exactly where I want it, at exactly the size I need, on whatever paper size I want. That can then be printed directly, or printed to a PDF, or saved whatever other way seems best.

    The main reason I do this is because I've had horrendous problems trying to print directly from CC3 and CC3+ in the past, with fills printing weirdly, or with odd colours, etc.

    If you want to try this, save the entire map as a .JPG at the exact size you need the full map to be when printed out, and leave the cutting-up into pages till you have it in a program where you can do that more easily - or the GM can, if that may be better (in case their printer doesn't like the PDFs you've prepared). As Don said, bleeping printers!

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • WIP - Wayward Village and Inn

    Hey, as someone who used to DM with bits of cut-up graph paper, and with friends who DM'd using hand-drawn lines on clear-plastic-covered hex paper, this looks amazing! Mind you, that was close-to 50 years ago, so we had some excuse (that and there wasn't any other option back then!).

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • Vampire City

    Cthulhu City is a great period style, though the final map of the three above seems a little bright and almost sunny for a Vampire City, perhaps? ๐Ÿง›๐Ÿ˜Ž

    Ricko
  • New Encounter sites along the Shattered Road

    I like the snakeskin-look road especially!๐Ÿ

    EdE
  • Printing maps from PDF?

    Just following-up here on my earlier comments re the free LibreOffice program "Draw", as I finally got around to installing and doing some basic testing of it earlier today, so can confirm it will indeed open MS Publisher files OK. Not sure it has all the same functionality as yet - as usual, it takes forever to find where the programmers have hidden the features I'm most likely to use regularly - but it does open files with finished images, Publisher-drawn diagrams and photos, and they're all there. The only thing I did notice is that a couple of photos I'd resized after cropping in Publisher had become a little distorted, although resizing by-eye corrected their appearance at the expense of enlarging the images, which would then need resizing to fit the text again. I'd guess that would probably work better if I'd cropped and resized the image in Draw, though I hadn't time to check that would work. Hopefully, this may assist anyone hunting around for an MS Publisher substitute when the program's withdrawn by Microsoft next month.

    Royal Scribe
  • Live Mapping: Fantasy Hand-drawn Part 2

    And now we can all smial at the Halflings, after last month's lofty Elvenings!

    Royal Scribe
  • Dungeon Level Symbols

    On the beds subject, I spent part of today constructing a plausible top-down, dungeon-scale view of a four-poster bed, with curtains. Essentially, it's a cutaway, because the top's missing, given seeing where the bed (and anything hidden by the drawn curtains) is more important than that top cover panel (which could be added using a rug/carpet, if available, anyway - or even a repurposed and maybe resized wooden table).

    What surprised me a little is there aren't any such beds in the styles I was using (DD3 Dungeons Digital and SS2 Fantasy, so all vector designs); generally, the vector styles have a lot more variety in their symbol options, probably because vector is an easier style to work with/draw in overall, of course. Which at least meant it wasn't that hard to take a suitable bed, and resize different varicolor pieces to work as posts and their feet, with wall-symbol curtains, to create such a bed.

    For raster symbols though, it would be great to have some actual options that don't need extra user input!

    Royal Scribe