Hi Everyone,

My name is John and I stumbled across this forum when most of my searches for guides and tutorials seemed to lead back here.

I play D&D 5e and have always been fascinated by real-world maps, so it's natural that I wanted to begin building better maps for the world in which I play.

I have used photoshop a little in the past, and I'm building what I can in Gimp now, learning as I go.

The campaign I'm playing in D&D is set in a classical-era ancient greece/egypt/middle east setting as opposed to the traditional medieval setting, as a result I have been trying to produce maps that look like they would be painted onto a vase like those of the time did.

This is an early stages regional map I am working on:

http://imgur.com/CdZYafW

Here is a two tone map of the world we play in, Orbis:

http://imgur.com/qknyTEc

I'm interested especially in learning how to make terrain features and symbols work, if anyone knows any reliable ways to make good symbols for forests, mountains, cities, bridges etc, I'd appreciate the info.

Thanks
Cepheid