Thread: December Entry: Old School

I love the black pen feel to this. Especially the dots to texture the sand. Lovely contribution.

As promised, a set of black-and-white, "old-school" DnD maps. This was a great challenge--as evidenced by the number of participants.

This is pretty much my final submission.

As I am at 3hr 57min, I don't think anything else will happen.

I have to say that this has been a humbling experience. As is my fashion, my original vision for this project was COMPLETELY unrealistic for the time constraints. There is so much more that I want to do just with the maps presented here--let alone the two or three more maps that I had originally planned.

To all of you who told me to try out the GIMP--thank you. This would have easily taken 10hrs+ if I was doing it with Paint alone. [I was literally clicking, drawing, and typing as fast as I could for the final 40 minutes as it was.] GIMP allowed me to accomplish what is here.

Maybe sometime in the coming weeks, I'll finish these maps to match my vision--then again, just as possibly not.

Looking at the maps, without a key, I realize that they might not be as clear as I hoped. So:

Land is thick black line--the shore line if you will.

Each thin line inside land is a 40ft contour line--meaning that the Light is something higher than 120ft above the water.

The thin lines in the water (in Overview) are depth lines, corresponding to 0-5ft, 5-10ft, 10-15ft, and deeper. Likewise, the different shading levels (in the other three maps) correspond to those same depths: 0-5ft, 5-10ft, 10-15ft.

The "Upper Caves" are at the first contour line, i.e. at a height of 40ft above mean water level.

Finally: I'd love to hear your thoughts, critiques, etc. [I have a list of about 14 things that I would do to these maps if given more time--I'm curious to see if the guild comes up with the same suggestions or if you surprise me with things of which I hadn't thought.]

I repped everyone who entered this month, just for entering, except I couldn't rep you, so accept my public kudos for entering!

-Rob A>

Repped on Rob's behalf (and mine). I have to say I find the contour lines a little confusing, but I'll need a little more time to look at this carefully and give a more reasoned explanation.