Fantasy maps created using Xara Xtreme

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Oh! You're right! I fixed it - thanks.

Michael "GP" Tumey

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One more map I thought I'd post before getting offline - things to do!

Here's my September Map Challenge entry (and winner) at the Cartographers' Guild Sept. '09, called the Archean Trade League - kind of a pirate era fictional map in a colonial wilderness area.

And of course here is the full sized version of that map...
Archean Trade League map

This is the first map, I began attempting to combine hand-drawn scans with digital creations in Xara Xtreme.

Enjoy!

GP

[a4hire]

Great Maps Michael , I really enjoyed the high resolution maps on your web site. Thanks for the links.

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Thanks for the comments everyone, I enjoy what I do!

Another part of creating maps is creating map objects. Now while I prefer fantasy themed maps to inspire my imagination, some maps are needed for other themes, from Old West to modern games.

The first attachment below is a sample of modern map objects: an uzi submachine gun and a dentist's chair (attached are both the image of .XAR file).

The next is along Echo Canyon, part of Zion Canyon, Utah, for an Old West game.

The next is part of my Necromancer's Crypt map, this was a time consuming boneyard with a detailed hand-drawing (took an hour) and 3 hours of tracing shapes, applying bevels, and drop shadows, but the result is pretty nice.

Just a variety of stuff I create and get asked to create!

Enjoy!

GP

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For my December Challenge map at the Cartographers' Guild (I didn't win this one) I created something for a twisted Orc's Christmas map. Orcs are those ugly green guys in the Lord of the Rings, for those who don't know.

I wrote a fourteen stanza tongue in cheek poem celebrating the Yuleblood Raid, reflecting orcish ancestral traditions - a great 12 day killing spree!

Anyway, this is the map I created - in many ways more of cartoonish style in this map - it was fun to create!

Link to larger file: Yuleblood Map

GP

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Here's the completed map of the village of Tomme, for the sake of publication, all you get is a thumbnail, this time!

The client needed a zoomed out overview of the entire village, so I created the second inset for that. The top inset features the interior of the primary encounter location in the adventure.

GP

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Here's the last map to earn me an award - the September '09 challenge: create an extra-dimensional location map. So this is the map location accessed via a magic item called the Amulet of Cerene (seen in lower right of map). The map is titled the Assassin's Lair.

Again this uses my hand-drawn and Xara composited style of map.

Link to larger version: Assassin's Lair map.

Enjoy!

GP