[GIMP] The Golgatha of Al-Serlin (an 'old school blue' adventure map)

[Druvas]

This is one of my most recent old school blue maps done entirely in GIMP. I owe it all to the fantastic tutorial by torstan!

[DevinNight]

I love the non symetrical ground level. And there is something about old school blue that is still very appealing. Nice work.

[Druvas]

Thanks! I am very proud of this one. I was cruising the Googles one day and stumbled across the blueprints for the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and thought, gee, that would make a really cool old school map! I changed a few things but it is a pretty close approximation.

[ravells]

Looks Great! Was there a reason why old school maps were printed in blue?

[Avengeil]

I remember reading somewhere at wizards that hey were printed in blue to prevent (illegal?)photocopying as blue made a mess.I similar thing had happened with the orange character sheets which were also made for the same reason.

[Druvas]

Yeah, what Avengeil said. That was the pre digital age, I guess. Commercially available scanners had not pyet enetrated the household market.

[Aval Penworth]

Yeah that's true about blue. As a story editor in the dark ages I think we used a blue pencil for anything that was not to show up on a photocopy. Maybe it was another colour: who can remember?

[mearrin69]

Yep. Non-repro blue. We used to use blue pencil for editing as well - because it doesn't show up at all on photocopies. Red on black also works well as a photocopy preventer...a lot of Commodore 64 copy protection sheets used that. It was hard to see with regular eyes, let alone photocopiers.

Great map!
M

[ravells]

Ah I didn't know that about the blue. Sorry for the threadjack, Druvas!

[Druvas]

Thanks Mearrin69!

No worries ravells!