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Hi,
as my group will very soon be starting part 3, I´m currently making some maps to show/play with. I´m using Maptools to make the maps.
To get ideas for the maps I´m using Google to find some ruin pictures. I hope its not an legal problem posting them here. If it is, please contact me and I´ll remove them. The monster pics are also from google.
If someone has a good picture for one of the locations, I´d be happy to see them and maybe make a map.
I will be updating them as I make them.
So lets start, maybe someone can use them for their own campaign:
E1 Crocodile Island
Map
E2 Lair of the Ape-Eaters
Map
E3 Chimera Lair
Map
Monster: Chimera pic from AP
E5 Isle of Shadows
I ignored the discription here. In my version its an old tower which is completely flooded. It was once a kind of bank. On the inside are still some vaults, which are closed behind a giant sealed door and multiple forbiddance effects.
Map
F1 Shattered Bridges
Map F1a bridges
Map F1b bridges
Map F1b nord
Map F1b east
Monster = degenerated serpentfolk pic from AP
F2 Promanda of Law
(Ugimmo is currently in his lair, an old building, half sunken in the water)
Map
Monster: Ugimmo pic from AP
F4 Flooded Amphitheather
The thing to the right is a portal. This portals are all over the city and connect some buildings via dimension doors. Some of them are still working.
Map
F5 Den of the Rakshasa
Changed Crocodile to normal tiger because of the pic ;)
Map
VERY Nice stuff!! That is a great idea, using photos to help the PCs "see" what the DM describes.
Consider them yoinked!
You just made my whole day my friend!
I put Serpents Skull on temporary hiatus because the prospect of mapping it with MapTools was just too time consuming with the projects I have going on right now.
These are wonderful, and please continue to post more.
Really, this is a wonderful thing you've done. This chapter really needs some quality maps.
Thanks for the positive feedback, but I think I´m going to ask to let the pictures be removed.
I´ll leave the maps, as they are made by me, but after reading about the copyright problems, I think its best this way as I don´t wanna pay a lot of money just for posting some stuff I found on Google.
Thanks for the positive feedback, but I think I´m going to ask to let the pictures be removed.
I´ll leave the maps, as they are made by me, but after reading about the copyright problems, I think its best this way as I don´t wanna pay a lot of money just for posting some stuff I found on Google.
Please do leave the maps. Doing your own version of an adventure map (that you created yourself) is not a violation.
I made some for Rise of the Runelords back in the day, and even gave them to Lisa Stevens. I understand your concern about the artwork however... but the maps are fine.
Dotting for later.
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Made some more maps today:
I Sunken Ruins
Its not just some random ruins, it´s Saventh-Yhi´s harbor. With smashed ships and the broken light house. The magical orb to create the lighthouse light is still functional (functions as daylight at will item, shrinks to prefered size of the user(for transport).
Map
N Trader´s Bowl
The black shadow at the top is the underground tunnel. The gibbering mouthers will emerge from the 3 holes in the ground.
Map
O Hidden Pool
Map
Those are awesome! What's the scale supposed to be? Could you provide a version of these maps with a 5' grid?
Thanks!
Scale? Whatever fits ;D
Just download Maptools, load the maps and use the scale you like.
I´m going to use very customized locations/maps for the spears. As we are playing on Eberron and one of my players has a really cool backstory connected to manifest zones (basically zones which have planar traits), all the spears will be manifest zones. The buildings look the same from the outside, but on the inside there are zones which look like the plane they are connected to (all spear are connected to a different plane). If anyone is interested in those, just say so and I´ll be posting them as well.
Well, I have no use for Maptools since I don't play online, and it more than possible the program wouldn't even run on my operating system. My use case would be to print the maps as floor plans for my home game.
I meant you can use it to give the maps a scale/grid and just make a screenshot and then print them.
Problem is that doing this requires time (screenshotting and uploading them again) which I´d rather use to make more maps ;)
But I´ll do it when I´ll have some extra time.
Thanks for the tip, I've seen that maptools is actually a java program and seems to run at least on Mac OS X and probably on Linux, too, so I can do that myself.
You doing more maps is fine with me :) Thanks again, those are going to be useful once my campaign reaches Saventh Yhi.
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Just did one map today so far. Took me about 5 hours ;)
D1 Charau-Ka Fortress
I found an almost perfect source: Just search für "Sigiriya"
Map
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Forgot to mention: For many of the water textures, I used this deviant art picture from AshenSorrow.
If a mod reads this, please edit it in the first post.
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2 more:
G1 Plaza of the People
Map
M The Ivory Gate
As I said my group is playing on Eberron. So there was no earthfall. Instead the dragons of Argonessen obliterated Saventh-Yhi. The main entrance was one of the places they attacked the hardest. The scorches are still there. The red fog in the north is all over the temple district due to corrupted magic (added this to make the district and its inhabitants (changed to lizardfolk) a bit different).
Map
Great maps! Thanks for posting.
Dela, these are great! Once you are done would you mind sharing the MapTools save itself that contains all of these maps?
Thanks :)
I haven´t done any more maps besides some of the spear locations, but they are very different then in the book and customized to fit my campaign better.
@Laithoron
Send me your email and I send you a link where you can download the file. Its ~100 mb big, so I can´t send it directly ;)
Cool, thanks Dela!
Dela, thanks for the maps and thanks for bringing Sigirya to my attention. What an awesome place.
If you tell me your Skype name, I'll contact you to send you my old stuff.
I'm going to try to pack them to a sendable size, as I also have pictures to go with the maps. Will do so on the weekend (hopefully). Post you adresses and I'll send them.
Would love get copies of these is possible. adam@ofge.com
Those maps sound good. Could I get a copy as well?
(kmagurn@gmail.com)
Sent them to everyone.
Have fun! :)
IF these maps are still available..
Email: scorpioni_prime@hotmail.com
Just starting seven spears and any help is welcome to salvage that trainwreck :p
I would like to add my appreciation of your maps if I could get a hold of them. Thanks!
barz(dot)dave(at)gmail(dot)com
Dela - if you're still willing to hand out your work, I'd love to see the maps you created: campbell(at)chimeron(dot)net
Thanks for the help.
Great work. This will help out quite a bit! Please send them to me as well! jz(at)americannewmedia(dot)com
Sent them to everyone ;)
If you are still willing to send them, I would appreciate copies
ggeilman (at)satx.rr.com
I'd love to have copies too.
andyscarfe! <at> virginmedia <dot> com
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@Andy
Your mail didn't work? Send me a pm with the right one and I'll try again ;)
Maps? Yes, please! griffin AT idworld DOT net
Thanks very much.