Personally I like it better without the edge striping.

The black outline Fersus is talking about is also on the waterfall, outlining the water against the land with a "black inking" - if you are able to match that outline in some way it may tie into the symbols better, but either way it looks great

Example after getting it all worked out in FT3 instead of FT3+

One thing I liked from their black and white map was that they had rotten/ruined wooden doors since they were submerged in water.

I just started a discord server for anyone interested. I did find the CC3 Public server, but after looking around I realized the owner is inactive and so there isn't much room to develop a community there.

Feel free to join, https://discord.gg/tVvZqemKUf

Server is still under construction, but it has a lot of base functionality.

I would argue that all the physical/visual flair is part of what has made D&D larger than ever. I do agree that it is still flair, and not necessary to run a game. That being said, I think there are individuals who do need the concrete "things" in front of them to immerse in the game, and a more visual map helps engage them. So, while I think it is not necessary for the game, I do think it can be necessary for some players to have a good time, and having a good time is what it's all about.

I was just messing with this myself last night.

It seems like if you right-click, navigate, and type in a name, it somehow fails when you hit enter.

But then if you click (which runs the tool again) you see the path in the command as a default and you can just hit enter or retype it as you see it from there.

It was quite difficult to fully understand what was happening though so take that with a grain of salt.

It might also be worth mentioning that Joe Sweeney has a YouTube playlist for creating a similar type of symbol catalog.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW19iTo1VTR2VQvEwgz0lVg4xuSq7Zul_

When I saw this was the annual this month I started looking up my genealogy to see if I could build a cool poster for my family.

It made me realize how few generations it takes for things to get out of hand ?

I don't know my history as well as I should but I just kind of imagine an arthurian age where most people of power are corrupt and everybody knows it but is too fearful to stand up to it, so they purposely keep that fear cycle turning with public displays of punishment. Getting in good with certain officials means you are untouchable, up to the point of your usefulness anyway, so crime is common and it is a risk to even try and prevent it from happening.

Then the players enter.

I've browsed through them a couple times trying to decide what I would get first... including this years

Pretty sure it's gonna be this years.