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  1. 01-05-2011, 10:38 PM #1
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    Default Hello!

    My name is Jack Bread.
    I found this place while looking for something to make maps and I've been lurking here since yesterday.
    I've been playing DnD and other Pen and Paper games for ~4 years, I think.
    My favorite thing to do is to write stories, which is weird, because I am a terrible writer.
    I drew my first map a year or so before I started playing DnD. It was for a story I wanted to write. (Never did, though. :\ )
    I have 4 or 5 maps made along with several on the computer, which were lost, unfortunately, when my computer caught a virus and had to be fixed.
    Recently, I started to make a campaign for DnD based on Roman culture, because I haven't seen one like that.
    The map below is the first map that I mentioned.

    Hello!-map1.jpg

    EDIT: I forgot to mention, I'm a newbie at Photoshop and GIMP and so I prefer using Pencil and Papers.
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  2. 01-05-2011, 11:15 PM #2
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    Welcome to the Guild, Jack. Manual Mapping is fine... digital tools get good results, at what might be a tremendous time savings, so by all means give some tutorials a try, and see what you can do. I like your example, though. One doesn't have to produce the equivalent of a professional cartographer's best output, to have fun and detail a setting for your players. I bet player character X hasn't got time to produce a Ravells or Ascension or a2area map - in between training with a crossbow and researching the latest magik, he'd probably draw up just what you have here.
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    Welcome Aboard!
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  4. 01-06-2011, 02:23 PM #4
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    Welcome To The Guild !! Don't be afraid to give digital mapping a try we're all here to help

    Even if I am correct, I would still advise you to follow your heart. This whole Cartographers Guild thing, it seems to me, is more about passion and skill and learning new techniques than it is about definitions and rules.
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    hi Jack, welcome to the guild, when you're ready to work on new maps (digital or pen&paper) - post in a WIP (work in progress thread) for help and critique
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