I am new here and love to see the works on these boards and wanted to help ever since I saw this project. I just didn't want to say anything until I got may tablet next month. But if this project is going to continue I would love to help. Just let me know what to do and I'll start with what I have.
I agree that a "how to" FAQ would be immensely helpful.Originally Posted by ravells
Waiting patiently...
As it stands now, there are no more regional areas available for mapping. However, you are more than welcome to map a city or town in any of the completed regional areas. You can also create and map a particular structure in any city or town.
Redrobes keeps a compiled list list of the towns that have already been mapped throughout the project. If the town you want to map isn't on that list, then it's free for the taking. If it is on the list, check to see if it hasn't been abandoned (and more than a few have been); if it has you're probably safe to take it over.
Hope that helps!
-IG
Yeah, the wiki has a list with more detail but I maintain, or rather a script rips out, a list of places we have mapped. All the top level tiles have been done for the Ansium area but theres loads of regional, and city maps below that and almost all of the cities have not been done - only a tiny fraction of them have. Some areas have had more love than others and some have the tile terrain done and nothing at all in them.
All the CWBP - everything in it - is CC licensed so that means:
a) You can take a copy for free. You dont need to ask any kind of permission to use it so long as you respect the CC license.
b) You can modify and repost an original or your modified map...
So long as:
a) You attribute the list of originators / contributors to it.
b) You don't make money off of it.
c) Any map you make that makes use of CWBP material to form part of it must also be shared with the same license. That guarantees that all of it stays free for everyone.
Its a world where *you* can add create and modify or choose to ignore bits of.
Personally I think it would be better to have some of the existing bits detailed further but I think that most people would like to map out new bits of the world.
We have one group playing in this world in Port Magalie with a yellow star on my overview map of Ansium but it would be cool if there were more people in different groups so that they flushed out other areas a bit more.
Click on map for big version...
Last edited by Redrobes; 11-30-2009 at 05:28 PM.
From Ravells' post, above, I got the distinct impression that the project might be "rebooted"? If that's not the case then I'll go try to see if I can figure out what urban areas have not been mapped yet and grab one to play with. I'm still a little in the dark on constraints (as regards creating/modifying items in the campaign world) but I'll make an effort to get up to speed if the information is available in this forum.
M
That was the thing I was worried about mearrin69 is that it looked like the people that made those maps looked like they put a lot of effort into them and placing the cities on them. I am worried that they have certain ideas about what they should be like and worried about mucking about in someone else's ideas.
Its true we encourage a view of the wiki to see whats generally in those areas and you get a feel for the place but its an open map. You pick a city not mapped yet and have a go. Its a good idea to match scale and any neighbor maps etc but on the whole theres not a lot of restrictions to it. As you can see from the varied styles of the tiles, there was not a lot of constraints. We have the world as a fractal terrain map and theres a lot of it un mapped. So no it wont be rebooted. There may be new world regions being opened up tho. Noones abandoning the Ansium region. It just might expand a bit or we might decide to carve the whole world up and take on bigger chunks at a large scale and work down in more levels. Each of Ansiums tiles are about 600 miles square so it was big enough to do each of those in my opinion tho. When you zoom in to see the cities at correct scale theres a lot of nothing between the tile and the city. Not many regional maps were done.
So think about what style you have and try to map something with a similar kind of style and work up an area or two. If you do, start a thread in the CWBP area and start the title with "[Region1][Tile7][Map 7] Timbucktoo" or similar to match the others then it will get ripped into the index automatically.
So yeah, get in there and add some maps to it.
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