Black & White Map

[zedturtle]

Well, if you could create tiling background textures of your trees and mountains, that would allow infinite scaling. Even though it wouldn't look as elegant at the transitions.

I don't think that would add any value, unless I'm misunderstanding the idea.

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Bound by technological and time limitations, I'm going to post this, if it works:



Ughh... ummm... right click on it and select ""Open Image in New Tab" or your browser's equivalent function. If you (Otaku) or anyone has suggestions for placement, let me know. Otherwise, I'll try to puzzle out the positioning of the landmarks that Os has identified in a previous post. Maybe another update tomorrowish...

[Otaku-sempai]

That looks very nice, Zed. The scale is slightly off from C. Tolkien's maps, where they show about 200 miles from the Gulf of Lhune to the source of the Lesser (Little) Lune River; the line of mountains in the north that runs north-east to the Ice Bay of Forochel is about 210 miles long; and the Southern Ered Luin is about 170 miles north to south. Your hexes are just a bit large by comparison.

I'm not trying to be overly critical; it's just that I've been measuring these distances out for my own purposes.

[zedturtle]

Okay. Redrawing, scanning and resizing is always tricky. I will tweak some tonight and see if we can't get a better correspondence.

[zedturtle]

Check this out and let me know if the scale seems better to you. I'll expand out the hexes on the left side, once we're happy with the scale.

[Otaku-sempai]

This looks much more accurate, zed. I would say call it workable and the map looks great!

EDIT: I've done a work-up of locations for your map; I just don't seem to have any way to copy it over to here or to make an attachment. I've added one additional feature: A Mannish hamlet/trading post called Anthorp at the confluence of the River Lune and the Siruial from the Hills of Evendim.

[Robin Smallburrow]

These maps are great Zed! Any chance you can do Harad in the future - I have lots of maps but none to proper scale unfortunately - see link in my sig and also this one:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/987 ... %20No1.jpg

This map was an attempt by me to merge with hexes the map made by Valarian of NW Middle-earth with one I had of Harad, but I would definitely prefer the maps you are doing!

Robin S.

[zedturtle]

Alrighty, it's in the queue. May be a little while before I get to it, though.

[zedturtle]

By the way, once the map of the Blue Mountains is completed, I think that it should be posted to the House Rules forum, don't you?

I'm not sure... the geography isn't house rules, but I guess the settlements might fall under that purview. I guess I will post the final result in both places, probably as a downloadable PDF.

Working on placements now... doubt I'll have everything finished tonight, but maybe tomorrow.

[zedturtle]

General placement check:



This is everything from Otaku's suggestions and the official maps that I can see. If anything's missing/out of place, let me know.

I guess we'll need to figure out travel zones and then we can repeparate things into an adventurer's map and a loremaster's map. Or we could leave that to folks imaginations and call ourselves almost done (some cropping, maybe some graphical tweaking).

[Robin Smallburrow]

where is Lake Helevorn on this (I thought that the lake survived the drowning of Beleriand)?

Robin S.