Hi everyone, I'm not really sure what to put in here so maybe some random things about me.

Random Thing #1. I was kidnapped when I was five years old and travelled around the country with my kidnapper until he hit a motorcyclist with his truck and I was rescued by the police. To this day I see pictures of places I have never been but I could swear that I've seen those places in person.

Random Thing #2. I joined the United States Navy right out of High School and went to Asia for my tour of duty. I participated in lots of military drills at sea, particularly the ones that make North Korea so mad. My ship was the most well armed Guided Missile Destroyer in the US Navy. We participated in supporting the Philippine Insurrection of 1988 when Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, the shoe hoarder, were replaced in a peaceful insurrection by Corazon Aquino . I also got to go to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Brunei Darusalam.

Random Thing #3. At one point I had a job within my community watching child molestors who had been let out of prison but were not trusted to be alone in public. So what I was hired to do was watch them all day long to make sure they never had a chance to hurt anyone again and keep my community safe from them.

Random Thing #4. What do I do for a living? This one is fun. I'm an armorer. Yes, an honest to God Armorer. I quite literally make armor for a living. I make body armor for the United States Military and police forces around the United States of America.

Random Thing #5. I'm a twin. Yes, there are two of me running around. Scary thought right?!

Random Thing #6. I've been playing various versions of Dungeons & Dragons since 1978. I used to draw maps of dungeons and fantasy lands all the time when I was younger, especially when I was sitting in church with my mom and bored out of my mind. So I have always had an interest in making maps and pictures and things like that for my games. So when I was at a friends house in 2013 he showed me a version of Campaign Cartographer 2 that he had sitting on his gaming shelf. I was, of course, immediately interested, and jumped online to have a look at the company. Shortly after that I got my own copy of CC3 and started working on my first map, the Inn of the Globefish from the Dungeons & Dragons Oriental Adventure module called "Night of the Seven Swords".

Anyway, here are some of the maps I have done. I admit though, I haven't really made a map in a while. I still love doing it, but I just haven't sat down to do so.

I decided to throw this one together to see if I could make a city out of it. This is what I got in about fifteen minutes of messing around with the style. But I agree, it could certainly use more symbols of buildings.

Hi everyone,

This is a bit of The City of Nyxotos that I've been working on for the Community Atlas. So far there isn't really much too it but I figured I would show what I've got so far. Enjoy.

There is also the February 2016 Annual Empire of the Rising Sun style that you can use for trees. The trees have the option of varicolor so you can make some interesting colors for them. This is an example of a few of the maps I made when the style first came out.

Thanks everyone, for all of your ideas. Since I haven't made a map in quite a while I think I had better keep this one simple. So I think I will call this one done. Here is the final product that I will be sending to Remy for the Atlas.

And a close up of the city gates. Eventually very few of the entrances on the wall themselves will be visible, so it will look more natural, not like a bunch of random buildings just pushed together like it does now. Also note how the gates were made. I took a pre made city symbol and placed towers in front of it, set it on a different sheet that automatically sends that symbol to the back. Then I placed other unwalled city symbols over the top of the visible wall sections of the first symbol. I kept them on the regular symbol sheet but used the "Send to Back" button to place them behind the facing towers. So they ended up overlapping the symbol I placed on the symbol sheet that automatically sends things to the back, but stayed behind the front facing towers.If you look at the city symbol on the left, it is the exact same city symbol I used for this, only mirrored so the gate goes in a slightly different direction.

So I've finished the sea wall and added some ships and docks.

So here is my suit of armor and the portrait. So now you all know what I looked like in my 20's.

@ Monsen

I've actually got a C++ learning course from Udemy so I can learn it eventually. I wish I could have gotten into computers way back when the commodore 64 was around. I was very poor then and could not afford a computer. It wasn't until the 386 came out that I was able to finally start learning about computers.

@ JimP

Wow Jim, that's really amazing! I don't know how you do it! Sorry to hear people started stealing your work, that really sucks! But building a site without actually knowing what the code means must have been hard. I know it would be for me.

@Quenten Thanks. You're the lucky one. Its in the Kalliochos area. By the names of all the towns around the area it seems to be greek or roman inspired so that is why I am using this style of building. They seem to be the closest I can come to getting greek or roman buildings currently from Mike Schley.

@Wyvern I think it needs to be completely walled considering how many different city states seem to be surrounding the area the city is in. With that many neighbors I would think walls would be needed, especially considering the whole area has a roman or greek vibe going on. Warring city states seemed to be a thing back then.

@Maidhc O Casain Thanks, that's kind of my thought process too. I know when they dug up a few cities in greece they found that the people had been living in the walls as if they were sectioned off into apartments, and merchants had set up shops there as well. So I think it kind of fits a little better now that I have added more to it. So here is a bit more added to it.

So I decided to add a Sea Wall to the city. I used the waves in the Mike Schley overland style to cover up the roads that are attached to the buildings used in making the wall.