(Last Updated October 9th, 2020 – 71 cities & towns)
While the focus of my mapping work has been dungeons and similar sub-surface environments, I’ve been putting a fair chunk of work into making useable and yet believable fantasy city maps.
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Sooo good! I especially like what you did with the Esran’s Isle map.
Thanks, Greg. Esran’s Isle is one that I love because it came as a flash of inspiration and was my first attempt at a city map in decades.
And it worked. It is the inspiration behind the rest of the urban maps I’ve drawn since.
i would like some side views ….or bird eye views…(Isometric??)…curious on your artist approach there…..where roofs and castle wall can be seen….. as you approach the city or town stand on a hill side…..before yee enter. imagine more work….but truly gets the imagination up a notch for artist and player….i always seem to sketch for my players….to give scale or theme
I wish.
I lack the artistic skill to provide such maps. I’m a lousy illustrator, and a horrendous sketcher. I draw decent maps, but that’s about it.
Speaking of how you design your maps, do you draw then scan, or is it a strictly digital process, and if so, what software do you use?
There is almost no digital artistry involved at all. I draw them by hand, scan them, touch them up occasionally in photoshop, and then post them.
Here’s an overview: https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/on-the-drawing-of-maps/
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I have loved your maps since I fits saw them. I have refereed a game world that has run almost 30 years now, and I know how hard it is to design cities that seem like they’ve grown organically. Dwarves are probably the only folk who could plan a city AND STICK TO THE PLAN . . . everybody else needs a city that has roots. Yours have that feel. Very cool.
Your stuff is awesome and inspirational, both here and in the published source material. I use them with Maptools on a big screen tv at our game table. I would love to see you do street maps like you do for the dungeons. Even layouts of unique buildings you would find in a big city like you have for the taverns and inns page. Maybe even more Eberron style streets and buildings.
I really like your city and castles. They are believable. so many seem like just an artficial collection of drawings
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I find it curious that beyond Summerthorpe and Dunnsmouth none of the village and hamlet size maps has graveyards or cemeteries. Thinking of it 80% of the adventures that I have run has one or more scenes taking place in a cemetery or graveyard. Have you ever done a cemetery or graveyard isolated?