I have to agree. I actually own the vast majority of what ProFantasy has produced and feel like the Cyberpunk genre is the one genre that has been missed. I have been thinking about an attempt of combining Cosmographer symbols with the Modern symbol sets in an effort to produce a Cyberpunk effect but I have not had time to start that.

This looks fantastic. The style really lends itself to the kind of maps that emote that fantasy feel and this totally screams D&D to me. As it should since Schley is a D&D guy if I remember right.

I have posted a different version of this map before but since then I have made adjustments. The rivers in my previous version really didn't make sense. I think they make more sense in this map. I have also included the beginnings of some text on one of the kingdoms shown in the map. Namely the kingdom of Renda.

Opinions? Comments? Ways to make the map more realistic? Thanks to all!



Geography



The feudal kingdom of Renda, once known as Suuri vanha valtakunta, the great old kingdom in the ancient tongue, lies on the westernmost reaches of The Nineteen Kingdoms, a region of feudal nations located on the northern part of the Odrian continent. Renda encompasses about 8250 square miles and borders the Shannic Ocean directly to the south, the kingdom of Vorai to the southeast, the River Halla and the barbarian nation of Darwar to the north, and finally the Forgotten Forest directly to the east and north of Vorai.



Tharo, Capital of Renda



The great trading city of Tharo is the capital of Renda. Tharo is located on an island just off the western coast of mainland Renda. In the present day, Tharo is the major trading center in all of the western kingdoms. Three major trading routes converge on the city and Renda benefits greatly from the trade that occurs there year-round. There are five other major trading towns in Renda, four along the trade routes emerging from Tharo and one located just outside the Kalkov Hills in central Renda. All of these towns have a major economic and political impact on Renda but Tharo is the true center of power in the kingdom.



History



The kingdom of Renda can trace its various royal lines back 1500 years. In the beginning of this history, a barbarian known as Tharo the Beast came to power by winning many tribal warriors from the ancient bloodlines of the Kestri to his side. Together they conquered all that opposed them and set up a city Tharo named after himself. Over many generations, Renda grew in power and influence, once controlling all of the western kingdoms, spanning nearly 50,000 square miles of land. Since that time Renda has suffered many setbacks and over the last two centuries the kingdom has lost much of the territory it once claimed. There are many incidents in Renda’s history that historians point too as reasons for the kingdom’s decline. The wisest of these scholars point to one event being the singular most significant. This event is framed by an ill waged war of expansion remembered only for the swath of death and despair it caused.



Two hundred years ago the Rendan king Igsnar the III, more infamously known as Igsnar the Hideous, attempted to conquer all kingdoms of that time in a war of vile aggression. This conflict caused the torturous deaths of thousands in needless acts of wanton bloodshed. It was in this war that Renda lost much of its land, honor and power. Igsnar's butchery put a stain on Renda that still exists to the current time. To this day kingdoms affected by Igsnar’s merciless armies use his name in the vilest of curses. Igsnar’s actions have placed a foul mark on Rendan history that can never be erased but despite a drastic reduction in territory and status after the conflict, Renda has slowly repaired its reputation and standing among the other kingdoms as time has passed. This is due to the work of the last two kings after Igsnar and the current efforts of a relative newcomer to the throne.



Alain VII is the current King of Renda. Alain has ruled for the last twenty years since his father Alain VI's reign ended at the hand of his own Queen, the current monarch's deceased mother. Alain's first duty as a young king just into adulthood was to have his own mother beheaded for this treasonous crime. The newly christened monarch stood and watched the execution as it happened. Many in the court did not know what to expect after this event. Those closest to Alain feared the trauma of seeing his mother executed, on his command, might scar him in some unforeseen way. They feared the gruesome spectacle might compromise his ability to rule. There were those, some for selfish reasons, that considered putting a regent on the throne until senior nobility deemed Alain was ready to claim the crown. Alain dismissed these ideas and set about the process of rebuilding his kingdom just as his father and grandfather had done before him.



Shortly after his ascension to the throne, Alain was able to expand trade into and out of Tharo through shrewd negotiations and clandestine diplomacy. This was a key aim of his predecessors. As a result, the new monarch was able to swell the kingdom’s coffers and increase the strength of his military. The population on the manors also benefited from this surplus as increased revenues allowed Alain to lower taxes on the underclass he relies on for the kingdom’s food and water supply. Both of these acts have made Alain very popular with the average Rendan citizen, a popularity that has concerned a nobility once gleefully content to make themselves fat through the gross exploitation of the Rendan people.




© Kevin Beck Games 2020

This map reminds me of something I similar I did in the maps I posted in my gallery. I'm going to steal your rock placement. That looks cool.

I am going to make them myself. It will be a good challenge.

I made some more changes to my perpetually unfinished campaign map. I added a tapestry background first of all. I also changed the forests, added and changed the flow of some of the rivers and redesigned the map so that the water is on top of the land background. I am really thinking about just taking out all but the major capital cities and making the city symbol larger. Either that or using vector shapes as the city symbols instead of the bitmaps provided by the style. I hope you like the map. Any ideas for changes are welcome.

I love this. This is inspiration to do my own maps with this style. I really want to create a science fiction world of my own as well.

I wasn't even thinking about the grids when I posted this. :) As for the barbarian and orc tribes the labels just indicate where those tribes roam. They are of different sizes. It is a good point though. I could make the text for the more dominant tribes larger like I did for the capital cities.

I don't need to see the interface change but I too would love to be able to export my maps ready for VTT. So I guess that means I am echoing Line of Site Export. However is that even possible to program in with the underlying technology? I don't know programming so I wouldn't know. It seems to me though that DungeonDraft and DungeonFog use a completely different technology to do their maps.

Honestly its not that hard to create line of sight within Fantasy Grounds, my VTT of choice for the moment, although Foundry looks pretty good too.