Warm Salutations

[Stell]

Hello there!

I'm Stell, from Canada's west coast. I do D&D* and my maps are absolutely functional tools, drawn on scraps of paper (usually) or in my notebook (if lucky). I've also used PDN in the past but would like to move to something handsomer and more robust, so I expect I'll be learning Inkscape this winter. My handle on discord is 'Epistellar' and that's how most of my work is signed. Sample of my work below.

I have for some time very much admired Cartographer Guild's yearly awards and am glad to be on the forum.

Small scale map of my WIP world, 'Wel'.
PDN
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Obviously for my own utility and not player facing. Something interesting, or at least unexpected, emerges almost without effort by randomly and semi-randomly accreting detail atop detail, a principle I took from here.

The not-projection is a bit unusual. I couldn't be bothered to mentally deal with distortion, and though tempted eschewed the Traveller-icosahedral maps. I just unfolded a cylinder... I tried to be clever by reducing the size of the polar part, which was sliced off at 60N, so its circumference was 1/2 that of the equator (as a little circle of that latitude would be on a spherical earth). Waste of time though, v2 will just be a cylinder with impossibly large polar landmasses and it will be great.

Medium scale map of an unplaced peninsula
Hex notebook, marker
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Quite a scrawl, eh? Leaving aside the annotations for changing the system**, you can see the peninsula itself and perhaps guess at the symbology. I call 'em 'Quasi-hexes' or 'qhexes', and though they're overlaying a printed grid in this case they don't need to be. Meant for lightening-fast drawing of an area, so a province can be dealt with with as systematic and definite an approach as a dungeon of 10 foot square. Meant to be drawn with pen and scrap paper in an airport or similar.

Isometric Dungeon Map
Marker
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This is pretty old, haven't drawn one of these in a while. Assume the tunnels are one square wide (which for me is 3x3 metres) and scale it from there.

Portrait
Marker
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If your NPCs don't look like cursed Zardoz-Landsknechts what're you even doing?


*Not using the Dungeons and Dragons 5e or 6e rulesets, good heavens. OSE or my homebrew of GLoG.
** I was figuring out a way of dealing with tides and ships' draughts.

[moki]

Oh my!! This is so cool to look at, I am glad you finally joined the Guild. I myself use Inkscape and I am learning it aswell! so if you have any questions I would definitely try to help to the best of my abilities. Also while looking through your first map I thought some of the labels were really funny such as "Lobotomized figurehead totem king" and "Psychadelic alien glass jungle" you campaign seems really interesting and the attention to detail you have is a joy to see! I am glad you are here and welcome!