August/September Challenge: Lighting Strike

[Jeff B]

Heard about this challenge from the Profantasy forum and thought it would be a nice distraction from my current mapping project. Hope I'm posting this correctly but not sure how to display a thumbnail of the image.

Comments and suggestions are welcome

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[Redrobes]

Nice map - I like that one it shows the progression well.

I tried to fix up the attachment in your post but I could not so I have taken a copy and uploaded myself and this is the result. So maybe this will fix it.

I cant figure out why what you did was any different but it shows the attachment now so hopefully it will appear in the thumbnails. There is a sticky post at the top of member intros about adding an image - but it looked like you had done it correctly.

[Jeff B]

Thank You for fixing the issue and for you comments about the image.

[Diamond]

RedRobes: is it because he was still under 5 posts?

This is a great map! I like that you went the extra step and did before, during, and after.

[Ilanthar]

Nicely done! And quite spot on considering the last summer we got (at least here, in France).

[Jeff B]

Thank you for the comments.

My thought behind the image. When I first decided to create the maps I knew I what I wanted to do and my plan was to show a small town or village and only have two panels. After I choose the name for the project I decided that I needed a third panel and to scale down the area I was going to show because I thought that if I used a village or town the name could imply a rapid strike during a war / invasion and what I wanted to show was the nature aspect of the meaning. That is why I felt that the third panel showing natures recovery and a single house in the woods better reflected what I was trying to portray. I hope that I have brought that meaning across in the image.

[Jeff B]

Ok this is the final version. I made a subtle change to the wildlife shadows and the ruins in the recovery panel.

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[Tiana]

Nice! I also like the three stages of this map.