I fixed a couple of minor things that were bugging me and played around with the Blend Mode for the symbols and terrain, I think it looks pretty good.

Here is the 'final'low-res version...

Here's a bit of an update. I'll be using this as the initial player map in Maptools. This is 49"x31"" and saved at 70ppi to keep it under the 10.0mb size limit. For Maptools I'll save it at 100ppi. It's not a lot of difference in resolution but should make it nicer to look at when zoomed in.

I'm thinking for the regional maps to keep with the old-school feel, I might do them with the revised Pete Fenlon style. I've not tried that style yet...

Hi Folks,

Here's my WIP of the world map for an upcoming campaign. Based on Colin Driver's map from Mongoose Publishing's, Runequest II Elric of Melnibone sourcebook.

Loads of labeling and borders to do yet...

My apologies for the low resolution but it's a big map! - 4900 x 3100 miles!

The end draws near...

Still to do:

1. Re-draw the farms in the N, they're too small, each should be around 5 acres (my sister and brother-in-law had a small farm at that size and it seems about right) plus add some in the S, SW.
2. Number and create a key for the main thoroughfares.
3. Add some vegetation to the spar and relocate the building on it to its correct location.
4. Adjust the text to make it a bit more readable.
5. And Finito!

Rightio. Another quiet-ish day at the office. I think I'm calling this done!

A final, final update. I reduced the physical size of the map to save at 200ppi for printing and I adjusted the mountains and made some other minor tweaks. I'm very happy now with how this turned out. This is the 100ppi version for Maptools/VTTs.

Well, hasn't this been a long, drawn out process...I'm surprised the client is still with me...

I think I lost interest in this project for 3 reasons; their complexity and size, doing player and GM versions and general laziness on my part. Finally, removed the digit and got them done.

I've sent these off for approval - hopefull, if there are any more changes they will be minor...

The red lines (squiggly or straight on the last map) represent illusory walls and whatever.

Due to the number of traps on the last 2 maps, I created a key in the Map Notes.

Okay. This is it, this bad boy is done. But I do have a question for the brains trust; do you prefer the Key in the centre or off to the right?

Hi All,

I'm Jim Abbott and have one major online alias, Damon Jynx that I use for most of the RPG forums I visit and my Facebook name is my old Cub Scout Leader name (the only reason I used Facebook at all, until now). I've been actively role playing with more or less the same bunch of guys since about 2000, sharing GM'ing duties with two others. Kind of like Lorelei, Damon Jynx, though not my first PC, is the name of my favourite PC, a multi-class Fighter/Rogue/Spymaster that I never seemed to manage to get beyond 13th level. Perhaps I'll re-work him to Pathfinder 1E seeing as how apart from the D100 games I run, that's what we're playing now.

I'm 57 and live in Penrith, a small-ish city west of Sydney at the foot of the Blue Mountains in NSW Australia with my partner Rose and our fostered cat Bella, a Russian Blue that is an indoors only cat. I have a stepson, Wayne who is 36 years old and with his wife Sam, they've blessed us with 2 adorable grandsons, Mason who just turned 4 and Cooper who is turning 1 at the end of October. Bella was Wayne and Sam's cat but when Mason came along she started misbehaving, so came to live with Nan and Pop.

My family emigrated to Australia from Scotland in 1964 and I would live nowhere else now. I'm the youngest of 7 and was adopted by my grandparents (an unwed mother just wasn't the done thing back in the early sixties, there are a few skeletons in that closet let me tell you but I'll save you the boring details).

I left school midway through Year 11 (1979) as I landed my first full-time job as a clerk in one the major banks of Australia, however that didn't work out due to a poor relationship with my probationary supervisor; he didn't particularly like me and I liked him even less. I got a job as a storeman in an electrical wholesalers (predominately trade only) and have been in the industry ever since; working my way up to management, being a part owner of an independent wholesaler, to finally now being in my 'retirement' job as a Purchasing Officer for a mid-sized electrical contracting firm in the commercial construction sector.

I like, reading, obviously fantasy is my fave, I've been getting into a bit of the "grimdark' sub genre lately though. I'm also a metalhead; Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Helloween and so on are some of my fave bands and I like camping and being in the outdoors - got to love that nature!

I've always had a thing for the maps in the games we play and I've had an adventure published by the Design Mechanism, as well as doing cartography commissions for them (all done in Ps); and delved into the world of publishing (laying out an adventure for a friend). I tried CC years ago, I think I downloaded a free demo version but that was in the early days of the WWW so there was nowhere near the amount of online tutorials there are these days and I found the program a real struggle. But here we are in 2020 and things are much different and I'm really enjoying the program, though running it on a Mac has some challenges...

Ok, this is nearly done. Mask, text, compass rose and scale bar left to do.

I'm not 100% happy with the "shaft" but I'll see how it looks with the mask applied. It's supposed to be a natural shaft with stairs cut into the side...

Thank heavens I have Auotsave on in background mode. CC3 crashed when I was almost done with the mask, I was just coming around the shaft to finish at the bottom right of the entrance. But that's done it for me tonight, no more mapping. I opened the autosave drawing and thankfully had lost nothing else and saved it properly.