New Trail Maker

[RobA]

Welcome aboard Sukerkin!

Sounds like the heart of a poet coming through there! Hope you rebuild your collection to better than it was before.

-Rob A>

[pyrandon]

Welcome, Sukerkin! I hope you find lots of help and inspiration here in our pocket universe--and I hope you contribute back both of the same!

[Sukerkin]

Thanks for the welcome, gentlemen :bows:.

I shall no doubt be pestering everyone daft shortly with idiot questions of the "How do I ... ?" ilk .

What happened to my old world maps was that I gave them to an artist friend of mine to redraw - the gulf between my drawing talents and his was vast . He spent quite a while on this task (i.e. years) whilst my campaign was dormant due to too much in the way of workload. He was just about done when, as best as I can fathom, during a sudden and fractious domestic split, the drawings (both beautiful 'new' and scraggity 'old') disappeared :eek: and .

At the moment, I can't decide whether to go ahead and re-draught the general world shape, apply the politcal and geographical regions (shoe-horning in the details I can remember) and accept that it's 'not the same as it was'.

Or do I do a cleansweep, starting from scratch with a new world, new gaming system, new NPC's, new history ... ?

Laying it out like that, I think the 're-imagining' option is certainly a vastly preferable task. Re-populating the NPC's and writing new histories for new countries would take me ... well ... erm ... about fifteen years .

[NeonKnight]

You could do a mixture of the two.

Take for example, Profantasy's Wonderful program: Fractal Terrains. With it you can create a world in the click of a button.

Now the two worlds below took me less than 1 minute make each, and already I can see ideas for them (espcially moreso because 4th Edition D&D is coming).

Could I shoe horn parts of my current campaign world onto it? Sure. EVen if I lost every document of my old worlds, I have a lot of it in my head. Would I lose place names, NPCs etc? Yep, but to me that is not important. I like to build and so I would start building, naming, etc.

[Sukerkin]

An interesting idea, NeonKnight (Sabbath fan by any chance?).

As I have Fractal World Explorer with Fractal Mapper, it's certainly an avenue I could venture down, the former being able to export it's creations into the latter.

EDIT: Slaps self on forehead for not realising before hitting Post that here, of all places, people would already know that .

[RobA]

EDIT: Slaps self on forehead for not realising before hitting Post that here, of all places, people would already know that .

Don't be so sure! I have no experience with either program, so hearing what they can do (even what might be considered the most obvious or basic task) is good to let me assess if I might want to use them.

-Rob A>

[NeonKnight]

An interesting idea, NeonKnight (Sabbath fan by any chance?).

As I have Fractal World Explorer with Fractal Mapper, it's certainly an avenue I could venture down, the former being able to export it's creations into the latter.

EDIT: Slaps self on forehead for not realising before hitting Post that here, of all places, people would already know that .

I must confer that the neonKnight moniker while being of Black Sabbath, is a song I have never heard (even though I do enjoy Black Sabbath...Huh!)

Not knowing about Fractal Mapper, Profantasy's Fratal Terrains can be linked into CC2/CC3, so glad to hear the idea has sparked somethign with you.