My next map made within Campaign Cartographer 3
Working more in my enhanced parchment style. The first try is here:
Created for a BareBones Fantasy RPG Campaign I am running, a close up of one of the city-states of Stavengaard Province.
One change was to use alpha blue around the darker shades for trees and mountain area. This allowed the bitmap to preserve the parchment texture unlike just blur as I used before. Thanks Tomb of Ultimate Mapper!
I used the black and white overland style from Annual 2 for the mountains and style sheet. Thought they would look better in a tighter close up. But one of the things I really liked about my first version was that it could be created by someone just with the base CC3 software and free symbols from the site.
I think I like the roads being a pale shade of the parchment bitmap but was the last change I made so not totally sold on it yet.
I like to create the map with the default black and white symbols since I like to have a printer-friendly copy too. I them edit each symbol but changing properties – select color white – then change that to the darker parchment bitmap. It is kind of tedious but less than an hour.
