Oct
8th
2018
(Re)Charting the territory · 9:08pm Oct 8th, 2018
Fallen Knight, as you may recall, once beheld my efforts to torture maps out of innocent and entirely undeserving paper. They spared the world future horrors by whipping up fantastic maps of Ungula, with terrain and legible words and lovely wee details and other splendid things.
And they've only gone and done it again. Ungula and environs, with and without labels, and with symbols.
There's stone circles in Bovaland. There's wee scorpions marauding around Saddle Arabia. There's the scar of Dream Valley. There's loads.
As someone who adores fantasy maps whenever and wherever they arise, everything about receiving a wonderful one based on the Palaververse gladdens my heart. Damned grateful to you, Fallen Knight. These are bonny things to have. 
Looks shiny. It even has the Fire Queen (to scale).
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"I SWEAR THIS PLACE WASN'T SO SMALL WHEN I WAS A WHELP."
Noticed that i accidentally deleted the lower right corner text in some of the versions...
Oops...
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Whoops. If it's any consolation, I was too distracted by the pyrefalcons to notice.
it looks… different than it used to. a more cartoony art style, no more cloth texture, even the typeface changed from a lovely serif one to… lucida hand? and without any glows or anything to contrast it from the background for readability, at that.
is this a WIP?
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Its a different program.
The first one was a browser based one called Inkarnate(.com). The problem with that one is that i lost all progress when the save got messed up and i ended up with just a black page.
This one is Campaign Cartographer (3) thats a program rather then web based. Has layers and can easily edit anything (while in inkarnate if it isnt perfect you have to fix it right away and changing it later is a pain).
It certainly looks "worse" then the inkarnate versions. But making it was certainly less frustrating and easier. Of course with being new to it (and didnt really bother much with the 600 page manual
) its pretty much just the basic tools without anything fancy. Yeah knew i didnt try something for improving contrast, glow to the text would work wonders if ill find how to do it.
Ill keep playing around with it (especially the text, that just looks aweful to me) but dont really expect anything too similar to the inkarnate version.
Might again try to play around with inkarnate but its certainly more... hard to work with.
Very cool! I love a good fantasy map.
Ooh. Very nice. I like the big catfish-faced sea serpent in the bottom left.
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Ah, I thought it might be. Inkarnate's a pain to edit, true enough. I've been trying to make a couple maps myself, and realizing after the fact that you need to make a major edit is... unpleasant.
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They're excellent things in general, and this set in particular.
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Donkey sailors like knowing in advance what they're going to have to steer the ship around. It's a real pain, though, having to update all the paper maps every time it moves around.
Gorgeous work! A good map is always a delight, and these are very well done indeed.
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Ain't they just.