Working on a Spanish Mission for publication
So about a year ago, I came up with a setting idea for a Pathfinder RPG version of a Gothic horror crossed with the Old West called Gothic Western - Cthulhu styled horror. I got a young game designer from Britain to contribute ideas, and a college professor, Jonathan Newell interested in publishing his horror writing. We came up with a number of adventure module ideas with the intention of releasing the setting guide, with rules, new class archetypes, one full 1st level adventure and a couple one shot modules as a single product.
Jonathan Newell came up with an ideal 1st level adventure that is very much Old West in flavor with a unique twist. The adventure is called Unclean Brand. It begins with a cattle rustling incident where some rich rancher is hiring a band of adventurers to recover his cattle (with a bonus for the scalps of every rustler involved). In reality the cattle rustlers were hired by an evil organization trying to set up events leading to doomsday for the world. The organization is called the Order of Oblivion. The cattle have been branded with powerful and evil magical sigils that will transform the cattle over time into monstrous beings barely resembling their cattle origins. Some grow insect or crustacean legs, fanged maws, mutated growths and more. At complete transformation these altered kine will be set free to roam the Great Basin region to attack anyone and causing havoc to traveling there.
I need to create several maps, though the author only asked for a regional map to follow the trail from the ranch to a Spanish Mission where the Order of Oblivion is hiding out, and the Spanish Mission itself.
The Spanish Mission is designed to resemble many mission sites, like the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. I will be creating all the interior spaces instead of being roofed buildings.
This is the author's rough draft (pretty good draft too) of the Spanish Mission map... (I'll be doing this in my photo-realistic style).
I will begin to tackle this today.
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Though the author only asked for the two maps, I am the cartographer and the publisher, so I plan to create the maps for the dozen-ish locations on the trail on the way to the mission. Most publications feature only a couple maps (that's all most publishers can afford), but I'm the cartographer and publisher so you can bet my products will be chock full of maps.
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