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    As you are using maptool you can always just place VBL on the pillar. The players will see that it blocks their vision and so will realise its a pillar rather than a hole.

    Equally, giving the whole pillar a drop shadow will make it clear that it comes out towards the viewer rather than into the page and it will allow you to re-use your pillar. If you're drawing it in place then a nice long directional shadow as Ascension suggested would certainly make it clear that the feature was a pillar.

    Otherwise, these look like good first maps for a dungeon crawl. Keep posting them up!

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    Here's the finished project. I"m not entirely satisfied with the blood trail type stuff, but overall I think it looks pretty good. Tell me what you think.
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    Please do not take this the wrong way but, it always give me a chuckle when I see lil dead dudes in giant pools of blood...maybe I'm a bit warped but I like it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascension View Post
    Please do not take this the wrong way but, it always give me a chuckle when I see lil dead dudes in giant pools of blood...maybe I'm a bit warped but I like it.
    As far as I'm concerned, the human body contains a truly ridiculous amount of blood. It's less fun to have lil dead dudes if you can't have big ol' pools of blood for them to lie in.

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    I think you're probably right about the amount of blood.


    If you want to nit pick you could mess up the pools a bit with tracks or foot prints. You might also want to paint the cloaks of some of the dead minis. Repeating the same colour, clean and in the same shape makes it look more like a mini.


    Course that is nitpicking.

    Good game map.


    Nice font for your magic circle in the north - what is it?


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    Sigurd, could you give me any tips on how exactly to alter the color of the cloaks? I'm still a GIMP newbie, so any insight you have about the best way to recolor stuff like that would be fantastic.

    The magic circle at the top I found on RPTools Galleries (link). I just color selected the black, inverted the selection, then copy-pasted it.

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