I started working on a functional map based on the very pretty official Dragon Pass made for the Rule 13 kickstarter. That official map features nice artwork, but it's just too general and lacks attention to scale, transport, and other features that are important for trade endeavours. The idea is to redo the map, ending up with a map full of information, height lines, terrain type, road types, population info, you name it.
Work just started, I put up the original in PS, and started by making alpha channels, defining 10 shades of grey in the swatches, and tracing water and swamps. Step two is now underway, tracing and interpreting the various hills, mountains, cliffs and ridges and making a height map that I can later convert to a topographic type of map - I hope.
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