It's a useful style for creating a rough idea of what I want to map, but somewhat limited in symbols. I like the idea of doing a sketch with this style and a more detailed version in another, with this style on hand to give to adventurers when the time is right. I love the idea of using this pencil sketch style for a map handed to adventurers by some weary ranger in a tavern who has scrawled out a quick idea of where the adventurers need to go -- while omitting many of the perils they'll encounter on the way.

In the chat, I asked if the style had any animal companions or familiars, and was told it doesn't. But now I'm wondering if the two Token Treasury add-ons could be used for that? I don't have those yet, so I don't know if those tokens can be used without their borders, nor whether they have suitable pet symbols. For those of you who do have the Token Treasury symbols, what do you think? Do they work well with Character Artist?

Also, one thing not mentioned in the video that I recall: I've seen some folks here illustrate their maps with characters in the margins, like the map's villain. But I have also seen some of you create beautiful illustrations using overland map symbols to create a background for their characters. Just wanted to throw out the idea that CA can work well with other mapping styles and doesn't have to be a solely stand-alone thing.

Here's a super quick, super rough experiment using Darklands City as the base with 13th Age Revisited for mountain peaks. I will keep playing with it, but there's some potential there.

Here's an even rougher experiment with Creepy Crypts. Would need to do more finessing and blending to get it to work.

The quest continues. Meanwhile, if any symbol designers are working on cliffs for a future annual, maybe ponder whether a few ridges or peaks would make sense to include.

Here they all are, with and without the moon.

Here's the daytime with the redrawn water:

And here it is at night with a kludgy crescent moon. I couldn't find moon symbols in Cosmographer that I really liked, so this is a public domain image from NASA. It's a full moon, but then I put the SOLID 80 fill on top of the entire moon on a sheet called MOON PHASE. Then I added the Color Key Cutout effect to that sheet and drew a circle with a width of 10 over the part of the moon that I wanted to show, so that it would cut out the portion of the SOLID 80 that I didn't want. Still not sure I even want a moon in this map, but the moon symbol, phase effects, and lighting effect are all on a MOON layer so it's easy enough to hide it.