Topic: Fantasy map download
Started by: Matt Snyder
Started on: 7/23/2002
Board: Actual Play
On 7/23/2002 at 4:36pm, Matt Snyder wrote:
Fantasy map download
Hey, folks, just thought I'd share a fun little map I worked up last week after reading the setting section in Sorcerer & Sword recently. I plan on using it in an upcoming campaign (though very likely not a Sorcerer game).
Anyway, I thought I'd offer it up to anyone looking for a groovy map, particularly for a good ol' Sword and Sorcerer session or more. The map isn't 100% complete. It needs a couple mor details like rivers, but it works. I'll update it later.
Fantasy Map
This map is brought to you today by the letter Y. God! I'mobsessed with it -- nearly every name has a Y. Although, in my defense, most of the names are from my handy-dandy Flash name generator, which is based on people and place names from the Illiad. Check that generator out at my "fun" homepage: http://dragons.carlisle.ia.us/
Eh. So it goes. Now back to my regularly scheduled layout of octaNe. It's coming together, finally!
On 7/23/2002 at 5:00pm, Paul Czege wrote:
RE: Fantasy map download
Hey Matt,
Really nice. My recent intensive experience with mapmaking has made me realize just how painstaking it can be to produce a nice result. What font did you use for the labels?
Paul
On 7/23/2002 at 5:04pm, Matt Snyder wrote:
RE: Fantasy map download
Paul Czege wrote: Hey Matt,
Really nice. My recent intensive experience with mapmaking has made me realize just how painstaking it can be to produce a nice result. What font did you use for the labels?
Paul
Thanks, Paul. Yeah, I've pieced this one together after several scans and other tinkering. More to do yet, but it's looking presentable.
The names are set in a font called Omnia. Omnia is an Adobe font. It's an uncial, and there are probably many similar faces available. American Uncial is another fairly common and similar font.
On 7/23/2002 at 5:22pm, Clay wrote:
RE: Fantasy map download
Matt,
That map rocks. It convinces me that I need to play more with map making.
Clay
On 7/23/2002 at 5:36pm, Matt Snyder wrote:
Another map!
I hear you, Clay. It's a whole lotta fun to do, and it doesn't require one to be a stupendous artist. I am anything but an illustrator, but a couple of my maps look good enough (more than a little tweaking in Photoshop doesn't hurt, though).
Here's another one I worked up a while ago. I shared this in a post recently:
Chrysalis Map
This was for a setting I had been working on -- sort of a far-future earth science fantasy thing. I have considered "re-doing" this one as a Sorcerer supplement. You know, after I get the Naval Observatory to change to 30 hour days.
