The large town of Faesiddex

[pyrandon]

I was wondering how you got such a perfect map out of the generator...makes perfect sense now.

Okay, by "perfect map" I'm sure you mean "perfectly depicting the place we've described" not "perfectly created map", right?

This map is hardly perfect in the latter sense--in fact, I can see many warts in there. I created it in about 4 hours, which for me is a quick-job (call me Molasses the Gimpy Sloth: slowwwww with a capital "OW!")

[Naryt]

Okay, by "perfect map" I'm sure you mean "perfectly depicting the place we've described" not "perfectly created map", right?

This map is hardly perfect in the latter sense--in fact, I can see many warts in there. I created it in about 4 hours, which for me is a quick-job (call me Molasses the Gimpy Sloth: slowwwww with a capital "OW!")

Perfect as in fits the genre and depicts the location such that I go "now, where is the crazy priest's hut?" and "is that the Last Cruise Inn?" as I look at it. As for warts, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and none is more critical than that which made the work.

[terrainmonkey]

see now this is what i'm talking about. beautiful work. just stunning. i wish i could get the same effects with corel.

oh well....back to the drawing board. maybe in the next few weeks i'll start my towns/cities thread.

again, great work. stunning, in fact.

[TheRedEpic]

Very interesting Pyrandon, i think i will try my hand at that type of map. I found your tutorial both excellent and informative...

Old dogs can always learn new tricks

[pyrandon]

Thank you for your comments, gentlemen. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Here's another version--a "test" version, filtered, desaturated, and hand tweaked--this one with the express purpose of labeling & creating a locations key.

Take care

[landorl]

I have to say that I like the originals better than this last one. I like the colors and details on the first two. This one just seems to loose a lot of the "wow" factor.

Now, if this is going to be something like the GM version, and the others are going to be the players, then this will work fine as a map just showing the location keys.

[Midgardsormr]

I like the desaturated one quite a bit. It looks like something the characters might actualy find in the campaign world: A three color watercolor painting on parchment.

I like the blobby imprecision of this version, too. It gets across the essential information without burdening the viewer with too many irrelevant details.

[pyrandon]

...Now, if this is going to be something like the GM version, and the others are going to be the players, then this will work fine as a map just showing the location keys.

Yeah, that's exactly the idea: don't clog up the main map with millions of numbers and labels, but make a second one for that purpose. I agree there's not as much eye candy to it; you're right on that.

Thanks, Midgardsormr, for your comments, too. I had a lot of trouble with the color scheme (I always do); do you think these colors work? I worry it's too "pinky".