Daxtera

[Dumont]

After way too many hours, I'm happy to post my first world map, Daxtera:

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This is just for the D&D game I'm running, but I wanted to learn about making high-quality maps and had some time between projects, and so I kind of got lost in this.

This is 90% Photoshop, 10% Wilbur, a tiny bit of GIMP (almost none of which made it into the final product, but hey, credit where credit's due), probably 50 hours of work, mountain range assets from the Shaded Relief Archive (thanks for the tip Daelin!), inspiration from dozens of other gorgeous maps posted by people more talented than me, and was only possible thanks to about half of the PDF's available in this post, though I wanna give special shoutouts to Arsheesh's massively helpful Wilbur and Forest-making tutorials (also in that link), both of which I adapted heavily into my Photoshop process.

I will probably come back to this again at some point and do more polish on it, especially as I end up adding more landmarks to the map due to the campaign exploring Daxtera. But for now, it's at a point where I feel comfortable posting it here.

Thanks to everyone who offered critiques and feedback in my WIP thread!