Dwarven Monastery

[NathanC]

This is my version of the main location from the pathfinder adventure Hallows Last Hope.

I wanted to try to give the feeling of elevation since the monastery is located at the foot of a mountain.

I think I may have made my walls a little too small to give the appropriate sense of depth in the actual building, but I'm hoping the added shadows help that.

The I posted the first version here with the other maps i made for the module.

Any thought on the elevation and how to better show it.

Dorskar's Crucible.jpg

[NathanC]

So here's where I'm at.

The two statues in the front should be weathered and broken but I can't get a good brush to really "break them" up. Haven't added the shadows for them yet, but the entrance/court yard is almost done and then in side.

Dorskar's Crucible.jpg

[NathanC]

Been working on it on an off this last week

Dorskar's Crucible.jpg

Thoughts and suggestions welcome

[Chick]

Looking really nice!

[NathanC]

Thanks, Chick.

I think I'm about done before I want to start playing with the lighting.

Dorskar's Crucible.jpg

[NathanC]

So I started with the interior lighting yesterday, and added windows for a natural light source (thought I think that the place would be lit by torches in my humble (read lighting inept) opinion.

That said it's intentionally dark.

I might make a few more changes like the rubble in the water before it takes a trip to the finished section.

Enjoy.

Dorskar's Crucible.jpg

[Larb]

Nice to see your version of this map - it's coming along really nicely. I have a sketch map I made of this monastery but modified to fit an eastern setting although I didn't really change the layout a great deal. I used the Falcon's Hollow adventure as an L5R introductory adventure - I just changed the setting and some of the plot points/encounters. My map Takauro I posted here a while back is basically an L5R version of Falcon's Hollow. =P

[NathanC]

I've always liked this module, but never really felt the map that came with it did the ruins justice.

I'm planning on doing Crown of the Kobold King next

[JDCt]

Perhaps I should have looked about a bit more before commenting on the first version of this map you had made in a previous post. This looks much better and the detail you have added really makes it. I particularly like the bit of broken and submerged wall with the runes on it. A very nice touch as it gives a sense of what the walls might look like which is otherwise hard to show on a top-down view.

Great work!

[NathanC]

JDCt, oh god the first was was horrid, like the worst. I'm glad you dig the little things, I was just explaining to my wife that my players never really notice that stuff, which is one of the reasons I post here. Thanks.