I like your maps, well done!

Hi All,

I don't think I've got the scale quite right here. I copied an image from the web but it lacked a scale bar so I took a guess...the CC3+ map just doesn't quite look right to me...

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Ok, so here is the base map for level 2. I need to read the module to make sure I add the remaining stuff in properly.

As with a lot of the old school maps each square is 10ft.

A further update. Water contours, labelling, a few minor tweaks (thanks @Loopysue ) and this all but done, well as done as it's going to get for the challenge.

@Fersus In response to your question re commissions.

It started a couple of years ago. There was a monthly challenge over at the Cartographers Guild to build a random dungeon, after some fairly ordinary efforts, I re-did it, wrote up some adventure text to go with and submitted it as a One Page Dungeon entry, The Crypt of the Witch King or Who's Your Mummy. There is a CC3+ version in the Old School dungeon style in my gallery. Anyhow, fast forward a bit, and I pitched an idea to the publisher of Mythras, my preferred FRPG, to produce one-shot adventures like the Savage Worlds One Sheets, I also mentioned that I do cartography and submitted my OPD entry as a sample. That led to some commissions for their Classic Fantasy line, primarily B&W old-school style dungeon maps. I've done a couple of other projects for them as well and I've been doing all their CF stuff since (you can see the latest in my Commissions album, the Ancient Tombs style). This is by far the largest city I've undertaken - and if I get others, which I think is likely given conversations I've had with the CF line manager, I will be charging a lot more, I can tell you! So that's it. All of my commissions, apart from a private one that I've yet to complete (sorry Allan!), have been for them. They are great to work for and very professionally run.

Taking @Wyvern's comments into consideration, the ground level of this complex is done.

I use the colour key method myself, I find it much easier - though some complicated shapes can be a real pain. If it's something you're likely to do often, I highly recommend creating a drawing tool (See page 141 of The Tome) then you can use the Trace function...

Here's a bit of an update...

I tried using the block building building tool with a colour key effect to 'cut out' the gaps etc, I'm not 100% happy with the big residential block but the industrial block looks ok, I think.

Hi Folks,

Being a fairly lazy person, for one of the games I'm currently running via Roll20 & Discord (video/voice) I needed to set up an ambush on a road. I used the Forest Path Battlemap from the Collection but then things went beyond that map, so I chucked on another one that was completly different and found myself running this encounter on 2 separate maps, which, as any of you using Roll20 would know, is a right royal PITA. So I knocked this up today for my game tomorrow night.

It's large and not too pretty but will do the job I think. I'm using the "Cliff" fill as rocky outcrops...

Edit: I realised when I was setting it up in Roll20, I forgot to turn off the construction lines for the ruined building and I needed an obstacle to prevent those near the crossroads seeing around the bend...

Hi All,

Work continues.

I really need to charge more for city maps, they are such time consuming beasts...my hourly rate for this map would be lucky to be a coffee...

Give me a good old dungeon map anytime...