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A Red and Pleasant Map
🕑 Added 2015-09-22 14:32:57 +0000 UTC I am an unashamed fan of the machinations of Jez Gordon who works as a layout and graphics god for a few small press releases every year. Among last year's masterpieces of his work we had Zak Smith's Red and Pleasant Land (winner of a fistfull of ENnie awards) which he laid out and added a few maps to.Combining the inspiration from reading the book with my love of the black, white and red isometric map that Jez drew for it (if you don't yet own a copy of this awe-inspiring book, you can see Jez' final map that inspired me on this blog post about awesomeness from earlier this summer - http://goo.gl/NR4k2p ), I decided to finally draw the isometric map that I wanted to since forever.
The last time I drew a crazed isometric "cityscape" map, I spent a lot of effort keeping the geometry in line so it made sense. This time around I spent a little less effort on the geometry, but this time it was specifically to make sure it didn't make sense in certain areas. There are places where a path that remains level will link to areas above it, below it, and even pass over itself.
This map was drawn on a ledger-sized sheet of isometric graph paper. A page size that it turns out doesn't fit on my scanner... not even when cut in half. I had to scan three different segments of the finished map and then splice them together.
Items/encounters on the map include a flail snail, the Giant Chicken of Bristol, some sort of Jabberwocky, slimes, a tortoise and of course the Ace of Spades.
I hope you find some use for this - it took me over a week to put together when I should have been working on other things, but the whole thing makes me very, very happy.
You can download the gigantic 300 dpi map from my blog post at https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/tuesday-map-a-red-and-pleasant-map/
Thank you, patrons, for making these crazy flights of fancy possible for me!
Comments
Neil
I just need a marble to travel through that map now and it would be perfect. :)
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