Forest Lake

[wdmartin]

A while ago, I did a bunch of maps for the Moonscar module. One of my favorites of the batch was the dark, spooky lake surrounded by demonic forest and underbrush.

Sadly, I never got to use it! My player bypassed that entire area.

Ah, but soon my player will come to a terrestrial lake with a more normal environment. So rather than start all over, I pulled out my moon lake, added some grass and some rocks and cattails and a bunch of color adjustments, and here it is, with and without grid:

Forest-Lake.jpg

Forest-Lake-with-grid.jpg

The grid is 100px to the five-foot square. The rocks, cattails, trees and underbrush came from the Dundjinni forums (though they've been modded a bit). The textures are all from cgtextures, except for the wonderful water texture which came from a CertainRandomGuy's imgur album of water textures. Seriously, check those out, they're awesome.

[FaeThropp]

Wow, you're right, the water texture is really great! I hope your players will enjoy fighting at this nice lake. though I like the colours of the old map, too, it's a good adaption to more earthly regions. I especially like the rocks at the bottom of the lake sticking out of the water and the shading indicating the depth. Which software did you use?

[wdmartin]

Thanks! It was all done in Photoshop.

[MTVExtreme]

Yeah the water is exceptional. At first glance i thought it was actual water lol. I really like the way you laid everything out it makes it feel natural all the way down to the slight shadowing around the brush. I hope your players appreciate the map and have fun within it.

[Niztael]

Thank you for providing a link to the water texture, it came out really great in this map.

[Phergus]

Nice! Good map to have in my library for the next time I have a lakeside encounter.

And thanks for the link to the water textures. More good resources.