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Many of us remember, and were inspired by Pete Fenlon's wonderful maps for the Middle Earth Roleplaying Game. Today, Pete is Chairman and Studio Director at Mayfair Games. In January, with Pete's permission we released a style pack for making maps in his style as part of the Cartographer's Annual 2008.
Steve Townshend produced this beautiful map in the Pete Fenlon style.
It uses only specially designed vector symbols combined with CC3's effects to get the right look.
Style packs are preconfigured so that if you select a tool (for example, rivers, roads and terrain), it looks right for the map style. To create a forest, you just select the forest draw tool, click points for the border, and it does this, adding random tree tops and edge trees.
You building up mountain ranges by selecting a symbol, then placing. They are selected randomly from a collection of symbols. So this was one click per mountain, and the mess at the bottom is a mountain cursor. You can tab through random styles if you don't like the current mountain at the cursor.
The distinctive ridges are also built up of symbols. On the left, with CC3 effects off, on the right, with them on.
Although the styles definitely make it easier to create maps such as these, Steve Townshend demonstrates that the human touch is still required to get an aesthetically pleasing map - style packs just make it easier to get the desired effect.
You can download the map in CC3 format here.
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This battlemap by Dkarr "was created for an RPGA Adventure during the Dungeons & Dragons Experience (DDXP). This is based on the map that was provided for the adventure COR8-03 Aspirations and served as the throne room for a goblin king." Dkarr even printed the lava out on transparencies which he lit from underneath.
( Images of the map in use behind the cut. )
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Mike Oliver created this map using the basic tools from CC3 for fantasy writer Victoria Kerrigan. Read how the map was created here.
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This is the first in a regular series featuring maps created using ProFantasy's software. Click on the map to see a larger image.
Map Creator: This map was created by Grimur Fjelsted of Mapventures. He's done some amazing work, featured on his website.
Map Title: Harabar
"A map of the Savage Kingdoms of the North. In my gaming group, we felt we needed a new challenge and decided to explore a new region of our campaign world. It´s a viking setting, based on the early kingdoms of Denmark."
Creation Details: Grimur created this map using CC3 combined with Symbol Set 1: Fantasy Overland. It uses the SS1 Fantasy A style, with symbols created by Sean McDonald. The text is very nicely placed, with frequent use of curved text. The effects are used subtly. If you want to create a map like this, use the New Drawing Wizard, select Overland Maps, then choose SS1 Fantasy A, and use the drawing tools and symbols provided.
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