A more intimate world map, packed with adventure

[Richardb]

I've not posted in years... but I've been mapping, and mapping... (in CC3). Recently been playing with various ideas in terms of world scale and scope, doing huge worlds, doing smaller, doing thematic (desert, ice, etc). This map is really unnamed, but the idea was to bring down the scale and create something intimate with a lot of detail, a lot of places to go. Sort of an old school D&D map that feels like you could do endless things. The idea is that the world itself is the enemy here... kingdoms are falling, the land is crumbling. Just a fun effort using the annual style sheets from CC3, which I love playing with and mixing and matching from on occasion.damagedworldsmaller.jpg

[Sapiento]

Well done!

[J.Edward]

Wow Richard, that looks great.
How did this slip by me?
I'm going to have to post that to the guild fb page, likely tomorrow.
More people should see this. Incoming rep sir.

[soggymuse]

Holy fudge! That's astonishing. It's almost overwhelming at first because there's so much going on, but then you get a closer look and realise there's so much going on. It's exciting. And I know how hard it is to come up with names for places that don't all start sounding the same, so kudos there, too. (The Land Swallower. <3)

I was disappointed to realise that Shipwreck Beach doesn't have any ship(wreck)s, though. And I'd also suggest varying your font styles a bit (e.g. CAPS for regions and italics for landmarks or something). As they are, it's difficult to read the labels because they all use the same font and font style.

Great job, Richard. It looks amazing.

[snodsy]

Love those mountains, great line work on them. Lots of information. I think the text could be handled much better though, more hierarchy and like soggymuse stated some all caps, bold. Don't use more typefaces, just refine what you have. Also the water texture seem more like a shallow water area. But great work and lots of good things going on.

[J.Edward]

Hey Richard,
we just featured your map on both FB and Twitter.
Hope that brings more around to check it out.
Cheers,
John