Midnight Maps: Decaying Crypt
From the tomes of projects headed nowhere, a crypt falling in ruins. Long abandoned. While I had a pretty good idea what I was going to do with the locale, life keeps pointing me toward other things. Perhaps someone else can flesh it out further.
Meandering Maps: Software & Simple Places
I’m prone to rambling. For mapping, I’ve chosen instead to partake in meandering. If I have an artistic bone in my body, I have yet to find it. Colors, textures, and visual layouts are not my forte but I still like to sketch maps on occasion. Maps have a way of getting the creative juices flowing. Each one helps me tie a random thought to something slightly more concrete and possibly organized.
Most of my maps are hand sketches, crudely done with pencil and perhaps a ruler. Sometimes its nice to have a bit of color and have them natively digital. So just for a change a pace and to get me back in the spirit of fantasy settings, I’ve been sketching maps, pondering places, and just imagining settings. On a whim, I went to check out Profantasy’s Campaign Cartographer. To the best of my recollection, the last time I used it was around the turn of the century. Same general product but several new plugins are available from when I last looked. Also, it got a lot cheaper at $45 vs. nearly double that I originally recall. For the non-UK folks, keep in mind the native transaction is in British pounds so you’ll likely be charged an additional fee by your bank or credit card company for the currency conversion. Continue reading »
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