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Comment on Custom old school hex map for sandbox campaign by Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:48:38 +0000

I really like this. Very well done.

Comment on Custom old school hex map for sandbox campaign by BXDM

BXDM — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:30:22 +0000

This is a gorgeous map! I’m about to kick off a sandbox B/X game, and I am artistic/cartography challenged. I would love to use your map for my home game. Do you happen to have a copy saved without place names? Also, what is the scale on your map?

Thanks for sharing!

Comment on Dyson’s Dodecahedron by Dyson Logos

Dyson Logos — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:30:57 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out!

Comment on Swashbuckling Adventure Scenario Generator by Lee

Lee — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:09:59 +0000

This looks like fun, thanks!

Comment on My gaming retrospective by buzz

buzz — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:58:32 +0000

Though Holmes was the first D&D product I owned, I only got in one abortive attempt to play it. At school, all the experienced kids played AD&D1e, so that was what I learned and played.

Gotta say, though, looking at B/X now, I can see why it’s at the epicenter of the OSR. It’s the most coherent pre-2e D&D that I’ve seen.

Comment on Custom old school hex map for sandbox campaign by Ara

Ara — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:03:48 +0000

Thanks, Matt.

I’ll give this a try and a smaller scale and see what happens.

Comment on My gaming retrospective by Daddy Grognard

Daddy Grognard — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:38:36 +0000

Your entry point to D&D mirrors mine; the group I joined back in 1979 was using AD&D exclusively and the only awareness of B/X was via the adverts in the games magazines. Unlike many others who started with 1e, I never moved on to 2e or later iterations of the game; I’ve stuck with the original books for nigh on thirty years and am now introducing the next generation to them. I appreciate that there’s a lot of love for B/X but don’t really share it. That’s the appeal of the OSR – it’s a broad church (hey, it let me in; it must be!)

Comment on Custom old school hex map for sandbox campaign by Matt Snyder

Matt Snyder — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:28:12 +0000

Hi Ara,

I’m fairly proficient in Illustrator, but i’m not much of an actual illustrator!

So, I used the bezier tool to draw everything you see on the map. Now, I lifted a lot of those icons, mainly from The Western Countries. The iconography are pretty similar to several of those kind of maps. I did do some minor variations on the icons, and created one or two new items (the standing stone, the temple).

As for the hexes, that was a matter of drawing the hex size I wanted using the polygon tool in one corner of the page. Then, I copied it,doubling each time, into a tall row that fit the entire height of the page. Then, again, copying each row and offsetting a bit to line up the hexes (this is slightly tricky). I doubled these as well, which makes it go much faster. (That is, you copy 2, then 4, then 8, etc until you fill up the page.)

Once I had this precise, it’s in place as a layer. I used a couple copies for layers, including a secondary one where the fill of each hex becomes a color, rather than transparent.

In short, it’s “by hand” and takes a little work. But, once it’s set up, you can easily port it around.

Comment on Custom old school hex map for sandbox campaign by Ara

Ara — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 03:51:03 +0000

I am curious about your process for creating this in Illustrator. How did you get the hex grid? Where did the icons come from?

Comment on Swashbuckling Adventure Scenario Generator by Shoe

Shoe — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:05:12 +0000

This generator is awesome. It seem to me, with very little modification that this can work for fantasy games as well

-Shoe