I'm an "It depends" person. I don't need a beautiful map to gm. Ad hoc lines with a pencil on a sheet of paper or even no map at all, just using descriptions work perfectly well.

But having maps, espescially good looking ones is nice. Even if I dont use them as Battlemaps for miniatures oder tokens, they still enhance the description of a locale by somethin visible, making it easier to envision, where exactly the enemy may be, or just how big a building, or monster are.

It may be important to know, that pen&paper in person for me does not mean sitting at a table, but evenryone lounging on a couch or armchair with maybe a small table or a computer screen/TV to show things to the players.

OK,

first the things I would like to stay:

• User Interface: I don't really care if its "modern" or not, but what I like about CC3 ist, that the buttons als simple. The Icons fill the buttons completely. In many more modern apps, buttons are bigger, with the icons in them smaller. I don't like that.
• It is a CAD Programm, NOT an art program and I love that. With it I can create maps I find beautifl, without the talent to draw better than I did in kindergarden.

Things I would like to see:

• The abillity to open more thhan one view of a map with effects active in one view and inactive in the other.
• The abillity to put the sidebars, tools on my second screen, similar to how it can be done in ft3, giving more screenspace to the map

Everything else like using multiple cores was already mentioned by someone else

You could overlay the Mountain with a dark Polygon on a separate sheet with an edge fade, inner effect on it and an inner oppacity of 0% and an outer oppacity of 20-30.

That could give the Mountain the illusion of being darker at groundlevel and thus seeming to be 3d

Edge of the Wild and Borderlands sound good and fitting. Although Daniel is strange and funny.

Congratulations to all the winners.

This competition was a lot of fun. Both in mapping myself and in looking at the maps of thee others.