Coffeebreak Cartography #3

Continuing the series focusing on what it’s possible for a busy GM to get done in very little time.

Today a bit of a cheat, this is actually a lunchbreak job rather than a coffee break.

A well spent lunch time

Time saving photoshop tips in this map are the repeating patterns used all over the map. There’s a pattern for painting the forest, and the majority of the buildings, as well as the swamp. Other buildings are drawn with the thick line technique I mentioned earlier. The roads, walls and mountains are just drawn with a round brush.

Since the dark days of the late '70s, Iain has been playing and running RPGs of one type or another. When not with his wife and children or working as a software engineer/Photoshop monkey he spends spare time either shooting pointy sticks at pointless paper targets, practising the art of card magic, or spending time enjoying the varied worlds of role playing.

Tags: Cartography, Hand-drawn, Map, Photoshop Tips