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Really lovely, I like the Arabic style font you've used! And thanks for posting the pattern too!
The Sand Dragon Inn for Kobold Quarterly #10
So, with a suitable delay, here's the Sand Dragon Inn from Kobold Quarterly #10. It's an Arabian Inn with an open central courtyard. However, few visitors know the dark secret lurking in the tunnels below.
This was a fun map to create. I wanted to get some patterns and mosaics into the image - so I created them from references and made sure I could make a proper tiling mosaic. The courtyard took a while, but I'm very pleased with it!
Anyway, if you like it then I'd recommend picking up the pdf of KQ10 where you get a higher resolution version as well as the text that goes along with the location. (full disclosure - I'm not on royalties or anything, I just think it's a good article).
KQ10-RuyintanCaravanseraiWeb.jpg
All done in Gimp with a tablet.
Oh, and here's the repeating star tile pattern:
StarPatternFinal.jpg
As this is a commissioned piece it is not CC licensed, but rights reserved.
Really lovely, I like the Arabic style font you've used! And thanks for posting the pattern too!
That's some really nice work, bro. Can't rep right now so I owe ya.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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Very cool. I'll have to check out that issue of Kobold quarterly!
Thanks! It was fun to do something a little different.
More neat stuff here Torstan!
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
And in excellent news - KQ are giving away #10 free - but only until the end of January. See this post on the KQ site for details:
http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/article3833.php
Now obviously this is the star (ahem) but I hear there might be some other stuff in there too
Sweet, thanks for the link
Edit: Seems to have a problem reading the source file. I can't get a good download. Not sure what the issue is. Maybe I'll try again later. :/
Last edited by Jaxilon; 01-24-2010 at 08:17 PM.
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Yeah, I had the same problem.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
I got it to work. I'm not sure if it was a problem on their end or if it was my using Firefox to download it. I switched rendering engines to use an IE download and it worked fine. It has been a few hours so it could have been a broken file earlier.
Anyway, if you are using Firefox and it won't download try the "IE Tab" addon for Firefox and redo it.
“When it’s over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best that you were capable of? If so, the score does not matter. But if you find that you did your best you were capable of, you will find it to your liking.” -John Wooden
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