The Shadow Clock remapped

[Dom C]

Soooo... I found the module map was really confusing and less than optimal for my purposes, so I went another route. I based mine roughly on this 3d Ross Lucci did.

I incorporated three of the details from the module maps to that, though - Clock face on the south, made the hole in the wall roughly flush with the bell supports to aid in making that battle with the Faceless Stalkers more interesting, and moved the roof entry to the south as the wrap around ended more naturally there.

If you stack the maps, you'll see the tower kind of leans back and forth. That allowed me to simulate the crooked, leaning tower and keep all the parts "on square". I modelled the clock gears, clock face & floor all in Sketch-up and pasted them in with shadows. The rest I made or adapted from mapping tiles.

I figure if my party TPKs here, they're going out in style!

http://www.mediafire.com/?hvqqvs97sxyb8

There are two versions of most of the levels - one before the bell drop and one after. About 100MB of pictures overall. Each map layer represents 20' of height overall.

I would love feedback on them, good and bad.

Thanks!

[Sneaky]

That's wonderful thanks a lot really, I love any detail to add to APs and this remain for me still the most loved and your maps are awesome so thanks really a lot you made my day

[Starfury]

Excellent work, thank you very much!

[Twowlves]

Those maps are quite nice! Now if only they had a 1" grid on them and were printable to 1" = 5' scale....

=)

[Dom C]

Twowlves wrote:

Those maps are quite nice! Now if only they had a 1" grid on them and were printable to 1" = 5' scale....

=)

They are already printable to that scale; each map is 17" x 17".

I use them in D20Pro, which allows you to specify resolution (200dpi) and overlay any color/brightness of map grid on the image, so I never add grids to any map... though sometimes the floor tiles will create one for me.

Also, I prefer to teach people how to fish:
Grids in GIMP

It's actually super easy. Gimp is free to download and use, and works like a champ for basic map work.

EDIT: Dunno how much you know, so I'm assuming nothing - no offense intended.

More on the specific Tool for grids is in the documentation here.
To help size the grid: PX stands for Pixels, and that is synonymous to Dots in Dots-Per-Inch (dpi). Since these maps are 200dpi, if you want something to be an inch apart on them they need to be 200px apart.

[Twowlves]

I have "getting d20Pro up and running" on my list of things to do in the near future. In fact, I was starting to mess around with it when my last computer blew up, and I just haven't gotten around to trying again.

Thanks for the tips and heads up! I'm eager to give it a shot when we play again after the holidays.

Thanks!

[Rotolutundro]

These maps are wonderful! Thanks for your hard work!

[Twowlves]

With our next session covering the end of book II coming up in less than two weeks, I have just started toying around with GIMP and these maps, and I have to say, thank you for pointing me in this direction! I'll be able to add the grids, crop the images to 8"X10" sizes and print them in color onto carstock so I can lay them out room by room as they progress.

Thanks for the tutorial AND the maps, once again!

[Evil Lincoln]

Gorgeous! Bravo!

I only wish that my MapTool campaign had not yet passed through that adventure. Ah, well.

Add it to the community stuff thread!

[Dom C]

Twowlves wrote:

With our next session covering the end of book II coming up in less than two weeks, I have just started toying around with GIMP and these maps, and I have to say, thank you for pointing me in this direction! I'll be able to add the grids, crop the images to 8"X10" sizes and print them in color onto carstock so I can lay them out room by room as they progress.

Thanks for the tutorial AND the maps, once again!

I'm glad that's working out for you. :) Having those skills should open up a lot more options for maps available on the forums and online for your group.

You'll probably see a couple more maps from me for the Hook Mtn Massacre, as well. I run a bi-weekly game and they just found the bear in the trap... so I'm probably two months ahead of your group.

[Dom C]

Evil Lincoln wrote:

Gorgeous! Bravo!

I only wish that my MapTool campaign had not yet passed through that adventure. Ah, well.

Add it to the community stuff thread!

I'm going to do that, but the thread has gotten really cluttered. I felt like making a separate post would allow it to be found easier in a forum search or the like.

[Twowlves]

Dom C wrote:

I'm glad that's working out for you. :) Having those skills should open up a lot more options for maps available on the forums and online for your group.

You'll probably see a couple more maps from me for the Hook Mtn Massacre, as well. I run a bi-weekly game and they just found the bear in the trap... so I'm probably two months ahead of your group.

I have a tiny fraction of working knowledge of Photoshop, but alas no home access to the program.

I certainly look forward to seeing the maps you produce for the 3rd installment of the AP, but trust me, if you are running bi-weekly, you are (and will continue to be) far more than just 2 months ahead of our group! We met for only 5 or 6 times last year, and only about 9 times for this campaign total. Real Life Responsibilities suck. :(

[Evil Lincoln]

Dom C wrote:

Evil Lincoln wrote:

Gorgeous! Bravo!

I only wish that my MapTool campaign had not yet passed through that adventure. Ah, well.

Add it to the community stuff thread!

I'm going to do that, but the thread has gotten really cluttered. I felt like making a separate post would allow it to be found easier in a forum search or the like.

yeah, it's a total PITA to manage that stuff. I wish that the forums had a better system for managing contributions...

[Dom C]

Twowlves wrote:

Real Life Responsibilities suck. :(

Quoted for Truth. Just about the only thing I do outside of work, chores and parenting is run the game. Luckily my wife is a gamer as well, and very supportive. :)