Guildenstern - A Port City

[Texcolo]

I've started working on Rosencrantz's sister city of Guildenstern. I've finshed the Guildenstern Cathedral, and am now working on the city walls and street system. I think the walls are out of scale... too big.

[Gandwarf]

Yeah, the walls are definitely too big. They overshadow the Cathedral at the moment and I think you will want that building to pop out.

[mearrin69]

The cathederal is awesome, though. Looking forward to seeing this.
M

[Texcolo]

Here's another go. I made the walls smaller, and added a bunch of housing etc.

The building in red is the apothecary. This is taking a long time. He he.

[rdanhenry]

Now fill the rest with taverns and brothels and you'll have a perfect D&D town.

[dr Jack]

I like the city and the cathedral is awesome.
May I ask you if you're using any tutorial and what software are you using?
Especially about the cathedral and the apothecary.
Thanks.

[Texcolo]

Dr Jack, thanks for the kind words. I'm using Adobe Illustrator. I've just added the inns in green.

[töff]

Is there some reason the cathedral is not cruciform?

[mearrin69]

It is, no doubt, the Church of Kord. None of that namby pampby "your prophet got lynched by some Imperial rabble" religions in our fantasy worlds, please.
M

PS - Please don't take offense...none is intended. In fact, I think that's why most fantasy works stay away from real-world religions. That and the fact that God/Allah/whomever doesn't grant Flamestrike and Cure Serious Wounds nearly often enough to be useful to adventurers.

[töff]

No offense taken. I'm not even a Christian.

That largest outbuilding looks cruciform, though. And the whole thing is so set in Europe (e.g. the name Guildenstern) and the Middle Ages (the flying buttresses), that it's a short leap to assume Christianity. Even the word "church" in Mearrin's post is European and specifically Christian.

Maybe the eventual labelling will clear this up?