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[Hexapanther]

Hello cartographers!

After a certain time of skulking around, reading various tutorials and posts, I thought it was time to step out into the light.

I am an old school RPG player and GM and after a long hiatus, now with kids in the right age I am getting back to it. I've always been into games and mapping as I started out my professional career as level designer for AAA games. I've long since moved past that working as game designer, and eventually producer. However I miss the creativity of the old days and find myself coming back to mapping and cartography at times.

Right now I am trying to brush up my hand drawing skills and export it digitally and GIMP it to awesomeness. I still have many miles to go though... my latest creation is a small dungeon for use with my RPG group as an initial combat encounter.

ruinen_cellar.jpg

A few of you might notice that I am heavily influenced by this amazing cartographer Dyson

best,

Hexapanther
https://hexapanther.wordpress.com/

[Vulcanxci]

Sounds like you have a lot of gaming experience. That's wonderful. Very nice map. Is it on a 5 ft grid? Also speaking just from a visual stand point (I have a little design experience) adding shading or color to the room fixings could make them pop. I'm looking forward to seeing more maps.

[Hexapanther]

hehe yes my gaming experience far deeper than my drawing skills. Its a 5ft grid. I want to make some more structural changes - I realized that the passages are a bit to narrow and that I want the cave opening into the cellar to be in the next room... I'll consider the shading.. sounds interesting!

[deleter]

nice! I like the organic feeling of the passages. The grid can be tempting to follow, but you've created a nice mixing of natural passages and man (kobold?) hewn rooms / hallways.