Ramblin Man Part Deux: Game Edition

[Aberzombie]

I still have to come up with a Horror-themed map for this year. I try to create at least one every October. Problem is, in past years I went a bit overboard and would do multiple maps in one Spooky Season. I should have been more sparse.

[Aberzombie]

A group I was thinking of as some flavor for the maps I create is Th White Death. Despite the sinister sounding name, it's actually an organization of good necromancers. They use their knowledge and power to protect people from the powers of undeath. I took partial inspiration for this from the old Second Edition The Complete Book of Necromancers. As I recall, one of the necromancers you could interact with in the mini-campaign setting was a "White Necromancer".

[Aberzombie]

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!! I still haven't done my Halloween map. However, the kernel of an idea has been swirling around in my brain. Something simple enough I should be able to do it in one day.

[Aberzombie]

It's been a slow morning, so I was finally able to get around to my annual Halloween map. This one popped into my head from two inspirations:

1. Watching the new Weapons movie last weekend.
2. Seeing Penny Dreadful pop up on streaming.

So, it's a Witch's Cottage. It has first and second floors, plus a lower cavern access by a stairwell that runs behind the main fireplace. The cavern has a shrine to a dark god, a large stone table, and a summoning circle. I also threw in an underground cell in case she has a "guest".

I'm not quite finished with it yet, but should be posting it on my FB page later today.

[Aberzombie]

Whilst driving home today I saw a tree with branches broken off on one side. Made it look a little lopsided.

Then I got to thinking.....A grove or clearing in a forest. At the center is a tree that's dead on one side, but alive on the other. Maybe it's home to a cursed dryad.

[Aberzombie]

Hoping to get to a new map this weekend. It might be the one I mentioned in my previous post, with the half-dead tree. Either that or one I thought of while watching the old Dunwich Horror movie from the 70s.

[Aberzombie]

I was able to get my half-dead tree map done this morning. I was mostly worried about modifying the two tree symbols to make one that looked like a half-dead tree. That, however, turned out to be pretty easy. Not perfect, but easy.

[Aberzombie]

Aaaarrrgghhhh!!!! The big downside of CC3+, which I'm sure I've mentioned before, is that as a map gets increasingly complex the program has a tendency to freeze up. And sometimes, because of that, I loose a good bit of work.