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  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    I love how map-mapping teaches us so much about so many things we might not have ever heard about otherwise - geology and cartography, of course, but also random bits of history, mythology, and more.

    mike robel
  • Printing maps from PDF?

    I did exactly as @Wyvern suggested -- dropping it into MS Publisher and then saving it as a PDF -- though I did so before seeing his recommendation. It worked just fine. I was worried that my image would resize when I pasted it in, but the printed page is indeed 1 square inch per grid.

    I wonder what will happen to my version of MS Publisher when they discontinue it. I get it through my work, but I don't think we have Office as a software-as-a-service thing, so I think it may just stick around on my hard drive? I used to be pretty proficient with PageMaker and QuarkXPress, but these days tend to use MS PowerPoint of all things for simple layout stuff. I suppose I could get the hang of any desktop publishing software if I have to switch to something else.

    Don Anderson Jr.Wyvern
  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    Love, love, love those craters. My family has a cabin less than 2 miles from the rim of Crater Lake, Oregon, so I have an abiding love of calderas.

    LoopysueDon Anderson Jr.
  • Interesting Political Take on the Mercator Projection

    @Wyvern, that early world maps link is awesome. I am in a Pathfinder campaign right now and my owl familiar is named Anaximander after the creator of the first mapper there. Love that his world map has Europe, Asia…and Libya.

    @Quenten, love that orientation. When I designed my campaign world in FT, it didn’t look quite right…so I flipped it upside down. Sometimes things look better that way. Of course, now the latitudes in the northern hemisphere have negative numbers but I can deal with that.

    Don Anderson Jr.Wyvern
  • WIP - Wayward Village and Inn

    I can see using either approach depending on the look you want. Any thoughts on which is better?

    My personal preference for this map is for the second one, where the hex grid only appears in the playable areas.

    Don Anderson Jr.