I've been using DD3 symbols for interior furnishings lately because they are a better fit as a supplement to dungeon styles like Creepy Crypts. But I just had to play with Mike Schley's latest symbols (especially the astrolabe!), including some like the cliff symbols as well as the Stairs and Steps from last year's annual. I'm calling it this tower the Wizard of Schley...

(However, I just realized that although I have interior stairs going down, I haven't designed the basement yet. I will do that tomorrow.)

From Above

On the roof of his tower, the wizard paint the landscape by day and study the stars at night. He's also planted a little herb garden up here. The stairs to reach the roof are in the western tower; the southeastern tower is a chimney.

First Floor

This floor is principally used to receive guests, especially adventurers seeking to buy potions and scrolls, or to have curses removed, magical items identified, prophesies interpreted, or their destination scried upon to scope it out. He has set it up to impress and intimate guests, with an ornate throne for himself. Most of the magical devices that he might need for the typical visitors are available here.

Second Floor

The second floor is the wizard's main living space, with a kitchen and spacious dining area. The roof of the gatehouse can be accessed from here, and the wizard has set up a table and chairs here for outdoor dining on nice afternoons and evenings.

Third Floor

This is the wizard's bedchamber, bath, and private office. The main interior stairs end here, but a spiral staircase in the western tower continues up.

Fourth Floor

This is the wizard's workshop and summoning chamber. The tower stairs continue from here to the roof.

Oh yeah, that happens to me a lot (though 2006 was a decade before I had even heard of ProFantasy). One common example for me: I will often have a magenta polygon on multiple sheets when I'm using the Color Key cutout effect. Sometimes it's because I had to create an acne mask sheet between a WALL sheet and a sills sheet below it. Sometimes it's because I'm using the Color Key effect for to cut through land to create a river, but I also want it to cut through multiple terrain sheets. And sometimes when I mess up, I end up with the magenta polygon half a dozen times on each of those sheets. It's generally not that big of a deal but it can add some size to the FCW file if it's happening a lot. So this will be very helpful!

Here they all are, with and without the moon.

Made some adjustments, including (if this doesn't step on any toes) changing it to be a wyvern's eyrie. Fixed some trees on the wrong sheet, and decided to change the sea at the base on the cliffs so that's it's only off to one side, with jungle on the other side.

Adjusted the nighttime one, too. Previously, I mimicked night by adding the SOLID 30 fill over everything. This time I used lighting effects instead with a 65% ambient light. That allowed me to add a little extra light over the eggs. It's subtle, maybe too subtle to notice (though it's a bit more apparent when compared to a version that has that turned off). I had a moon but I didn't care for it, so I removed it. Does anyone know if there are crescent moon symbols? My campaign world has three moons, but I wouldn't want them to always all be full.

Here it is with the galactic night sky.

And just so you can see it with and without the extra light over the eggs, here's a side by side comparison with the light symbol sheet hidden and unhidden.

Haven't had much time to get back to it, but here's a slight tweak. Added some trees, made the sky bluer, but the big change was to the lake. I wasn't fond of how it looked like the waterfall stuck into the lake, so now the river pools into a lake but then continues as a river until rushing rapids leads to a waterfall off the cliff.