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| Markustay |
Posted - 25 Jun 2015 : 15:28:13
Thread re-purposed - see below
When I had the fire I lost pretty much everything, including all my map files. I had a bunch of maps on DeviantART that I had taken down and no longer have. Most of these I have been able to find again somewhere on the web, but I don't have a copy of my original Chult map - the one I did before I posted the new 5e* one, showing Chult 'broken off' from the main continent (that one is still up on DeviantART).
A long while back someone sent me their copies of all my maps... but I don't think I saved all of them, and no longer have those E-Mails. 
Anyone have a copy of that Chult map? There was some stuff on that one I just can't find anywhere else (like the Isle of Dread conversion material which is no longer available on the Paizo site).
*CORRECTION: Thats the 4e version of Chult - I have no idea what Chult looks like in 5e. |
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| Dalor Darden |
Posted - 11 Oct 2025 : 15:19:06
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Originally posted by Azar
Apart from any potentially annoying innuendo, did he produce interesting content and/or spark constructive conversations?
It wasn't "potentially" anything...it was homophobia...period, end of story. |
| AJA |
Posted - 11 Oct 2025 : 13:46:37
CEV is one of, like, two or three posters to have been banned from Candlekeep. That should tell you all you need to know about CEV. Also,
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Originally posted by Azar
potentially annoying innuendo
You can **** right off with this, Azar.
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| Azar |
Posted - 11 Oct 2025 : 07:36:55
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Originally posted by Delnyn
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Originally posted by Azar
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Copper Elven Vampire needs to make a cameo now.
No.
Just... No.
May I please receive the CliffsNotes as to why that person (apparently) was disagreeable?
King ArchCEV was banned for repeatedly posting homophobic contents after being warned not to do so. The posts have been taken down and are most likely not to be reposted, EDIT: Copper Elven Vampire came back as Archfey of Debauchery and King Libertine as an attempt to circumvent the ban.
So if you see a brand-new scribe who - for example - specifically asks about Curudin Ahmaquissar, you are likely dealing with the same poster.
Apart from any potentially annoying innuendo, did he produce interesting content and/or spark constructive conversations? |
| Delnyn |
Posted - 10 Oct 2025 : 21:25:52
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Originally posted by Azar
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Copper Elven Vampire needs to make a cameo now.
No.
Just... No.
May I please receive the CliffsNotes as to why that person (apparently) was disagreeable?
King ArchCEV was banned for repeatedly posting homophobic contents after being warned not to do so. The posts have been taken down and are most likely not to be reposted, EDIT: Copper Elven Vampire came back as Archfey of Debauchery and King Libertine as an attempt to circumvent the ban.
So if you see a brand-new scribe who - for example - specifically asks about Curudin Ahmaquissar, you are likely dealing with the same poster. |
| Azar |
Posted - 10 Oct 2025 : 15:10:34
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Copper Elven Vampire needs to make a cameo now.
No.
Just... No.
May I please receive the CliffsNotes as to why that person (apparently) was disagreeable? |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 10 Oct 2025 : 04:36:04
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Copper Elven Vampire needs to make a cameo now.
No.
Just... No. |
| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 08 Oct 2025 : 06:14:58
-Copper Elven Vampire needs to make a cameo now. |
| Azar |
Posted - 05 Oct 2025 : 10:31:22
CAPTAIN HERO IS BACK! |
| cpthero2 |
Posted - 05 Oct 2025 : 06:55:50
Master Rupert, et alia,
Do any of you fine gentlefolk know of any resources that might demonstrate the state of the Inner Sea in the approximate date range of -247DR'ish? Ish to be taken as plus or minus.........a couple of hundred years.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best regards! |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 02 Dec 2019 : 02:50:04
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Hey MT...do you happen to have any knowledge of a map to a Dwarven Hold that you haven't "let be known" before? I'm looking for a map I could use for a Dwarf Hold in the Dragonspine Mountains...but I lost my own map that I made a while back and now I'm too lazy to create another. 
Perhaps you missed it when I previously shared a link to a site I'd found, where the guy does a free map every week and has hundreds of them available on his site... He does a new one every week, under the Friday Freebies section, and sometimes those weekly ones combine to form really big dungeons. He also sells "enhanced versions" of the maps through DriveThruRPG, though I've been sticking with the free versions.
http://www.paratime.ca/index.html
I did miss it!
Thanks so much Wooly
Not a problem! 
I was just looking for that prior thread I shared with that link, and found info in there I'd forgotten: this is the guy that did the maps for that pale imitation of Undermountain that we most recently got from WotC. They horribly nerfed the dungeon, but the maps are nifty. |
| Dalor Darden |
Posted - 02 Dec 2019 : 02:44:55
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Hey MT...do you happen to have any knowledge of a map to a Dwarven Hold that you haven't "let be known" before? I'm looking for a map I could use for a Dwarf Hold in the Dragonspine Mountains...but I lost my own map that I made a while back and now I'm too lazy to create another.
Perhaps you missed it when I previously shared a link to a site I'd found, where the guy does a free map every week and has hundreds of them available on his site... He does a new one every week, under the Friday Freebies section, and sometimes those weekly ones combine to form really big dungeons. He also sells "enhanced versions" of the maps through DriveThruRPG, though I've been sticking with the free versions.
http://www.paratime.ca/index.html
I did miss it!
Thanks so much Wooly |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 02 Dec 2019 : 02:41:11
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Hey MT...do you happen to have any knowledge of a map to a Dwarven Hold that you haven't "let be known" before? I'm looking for a map I could use for a Dwarf Hold in the Dragonspine Mountains...but I lost my own map that I made a while back and now I'm too lazy to create another.
Perhaps you missed it when I previously shared a link to a site I'd found, where the guy does a free map every week and has hundreds of them available on his site... He does a new one every week, under the Friday Freebies section, and sometimes those weekly ones combine to form really big dungeons. He also sells "enhanced versions" of the maps through DriveThruRPG, though I've been sticking with the free versions.
http://www.paratime.ca/index.html |
| Markustay |
Posted - 01 Dec 2019 : 21:12:47
I think I started mapping one dwarven hold awhile back. Can't remember which or why, and have no idea where that map may have ended up (I don't even see it on my old HD, so probably goes back to the computer I lost). However, you can usually find some decent ones online.
@Divinity - I thought of that, and would probably work that way now, if I were to start any HUGE maps again, but I've been keeping them fairly small lately. Also, the way I work is sort-of like that anyway. For example, once I get the terrain done, I flatten all that onto on layer and move on to settlements and such. So as I finish each major portion of the map, I flatten those layers. This means I have to go hunting through old files if I want to change something i have already 'finalized', but it at least keeps the files sizes manageable, for the most part. THAT, plus having the new computer helps IMMENSELY. It used to take me 7-8 minutes just to open GIMP, and then another 7-8 minutes to open a decent size map. Saving would take 5 minutes+. Now GIMP opens instantly, the maps open in about 10-15 seconds, and I save in about 30 seconds. For larger files I mean - small, single-settlement type maps are all 'instant'. Got to love SSD's.
I still get some weirdness when I save files with 'paths' - I think its a memory-leakage problem with the newest ver. of GIMP. I should report it to the team. A get a lot less crashing now as well (in fact, I've only had one crash that I can remember with this version & computer setup). Thus, mapping has become quite a bit less frustrating.
I have a 'dream project' I still want to do, of a layered city map. An immense city, with each map layer being a different level of the city. This would mean seeing the INTERIORS of each and every building, on EVERY level. VERY ambitious. Perhaps impossible. But I can dream, can't I? |
| Dalor Darden |
Posted - 01 Dec 2019 : 20:57:00
Hey MT...do you happen to have any knowledge of a map to a Dwarven Hold that you haven't "let be known" before? I'm looking for a map I could use for a Dwarf Hold in the Dragonspine Mountains...but I lost my own map that I made a while back and now I'm too lazy to create another. |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 02 Dec 2018 : 04:21:50
That sounds brilliant Craig. Will we Candlekeepers ever get to see the fruits of your labours?
-- George Krashos |
| Divinity |
Posted - 01 Dec 2018 : 21:26:54
Hey Markustay,
Reading through the last page, you mentioned the process you were going through for making your maps. Wooly commented about making layers in separate files: this is actually how I'm doing my current map. I did all the land textures in one file (3.5gb - though that includes a lot of map overlays to see where places are.) and I'm doing all the location labeling in a second. I'll probably have to do the land area naming in a third because this second map is 4.75gb with 800 layers and I'm about halfway done.
Anyways... I 'visual stamp' the land map, duplicate it into my second map, put it as my base layer and label over it. Every time I see a change, I go back to the land map, make the change, then replace the base layer on the second map. It's the first map I've done like this because it's so big but it seems to be working very well. I thought I'd throw that out there! I'm happy to answer any questions if you have them.
-Craig |
| tehguitarist |
Posted - 09 Jun 2018 : 13:40:25
Hey man,
Love your maps!! Did you ever release the full version with kara-tur and everything? The preview from years back has me itching! |
| Bragi |
Posted - 05 Jun 2018 : 21:38:19
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Originally posted by Markustay
Just a tiny piece of my map - I wanted to show the Moonsea off. Its FAR from finished, obviously. Even the terrain is still very rough. This was started primarily so I could get the layout correct for adjoining areas (UE and The Dales/Cormanthor). The UE is MUCH more done then what you see here - this is a few months old already.
This looks good. The only thing that I noticed was there are no locations marked inside the Moonsea itself. The Bell of the Deep and Mareliar. I added the Isle of Maos to mine but its existence is unconfirmed so leaving it off is probably a good idea. If you literally make Vassa in to the shape of a shoehorn, I don't think anyone would mind. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 22 Apr 2018 : 19:46:29
Just a tiny piece of my map - I wanted to show the Moonsea off. Its FAR from finished, obviously. Even the terrain is still very rough. This was started primarily so I could get the layout correct for adjoining areas (UE and The Dales/Cormanthor). The UE is MUCH more done then what you see here - this is a few months old already.
Moonsea Closeup.
Getting Vaasa to still look like it used to, while at the same time shoe-horning in all the newer stuff we got in 3e/4e/5e was 'fun' (and by fun, I mean getting a root canal at the dentist kind of 'fun').  |
| Markustay |
Posted - 19 Apr 2018 : 16:43:30
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
The site you're asking about Mark is spelled "Fhaoral"
Thank You Brian!
I thought that may have been an 'h' but I wasn't sure.
Now to see if I can figure-out what it is/was.... 
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Fhaoralusyolkiir
(FOUR-uh-loo-sy-ale-keer) -8,993 DR - -80 DR (as an Aryselmalyn garrison city); 573 - present (as temple).
Fhaoralusyolkiir was once a primary garrison for the Coronal of nearby Coryselmal. Nestled along the cliffs just west of the Selmal Basin, Fhaoralusyolkiir still retains some of the grandeur of its glory days more than nine millennia past. Its grand guardposts and city gates are set into the valley edge of the Selmal (between the Apprhun Mountain peninsula and the subsea slopes that become Alaghôn), their blaze coral tridents still gleaming and straight. The former palace of the garrison commander has become, in recent years, a great temple to Deep Sashelas. While there are about 200 sea elves in residence here, most are tied to the temple and much of the garrison city remains buried back within the cliff in mostly collapsed caverns.
I did find that yesterday, just using the letters 'oral' (and there are over 100 instances of the word 'coral!'), and although the description sort-of matched the test, the name was too long. I wonder if the shortening was a mistake on the part of the cartographer, or an aesthetic choice (long names drive us CRAZY). Its placement is also odd - I'm going to move it over near the shore. Even if it is supposed to be a (sea) cave-ridden mountain turned-fortress, I don't think swimming twenty or so miles underground to get to it is optimal from a defensive PoV.
So by comparing several maps, it appears Koalinth occupy a lot of the old Jhaamdathi ruins. Psionic sea hobgoblins?  |
| Brian R. James |
Posted - 19 Apr 2018 : 16:38:15
The site you're asking about Mark is spelled "Fhaoral" |
| Markustay |
Posted - 19 Apr 2018 : 05:14:15
On the maps of the Inner sea that came inside The Sea of Fallen Stars sourcebook, at the tip of Turmish there is a site called Fl**oral. I don't know if the missing part is one or two letter, or even if that second letter is an 'l' (it could be part of an 'h', etc.)
Anyone have a physical copy of the book and is able to read that label? Also, I tried to find it using just the letters I was somewhat sure of, and I couldn't within that source. I also couldn't find Pirate's Doom, which is also on that map, but it also appears on the FRIA maps, which that other site doesn't. My point being - that even if I have the correct spelling it still might not have an entry therein (in which case, does anyone know what the heck that is?). Its really weird, because it doesn't appear on any other map (and the FRIA has all the other SoFS sites), and its also on dry land, so it seems odd to have been created just for that book, without any lore attached.
Getting so close now... my quasi-insane desire for 'completeness' is keeping me from putting the last few touches on this one. Placing the 12 cities of the sword had some interesting results, though. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 10 Apr 2018 : 19:17:44
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Originally posted by Markustay
Thanks Wooly!
Not a problem.
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Originally posted by Markustay
So I am drawing in the Methwood ATM, and I can't help but wonder - Does anyone else think there might be an old, beat-up Vardo (gypsy/Raumvaran wagon) somewhere in there where a discredited sage (of alchemy) is cooking-up up some strange, addictive substance known as 'Cerulean Sky'?
It could be a typo -- the Mathwood, home of a discredited sage who studies numbers all day long. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 10 Apr 2018 : 18:55:17
I asked about this stuff in the novels forum, which was probably not optimal...
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Originally posted by Markustay
Not sure where the best place to ask this was, but someone had sent me the map from one of her books of the Ash Lake region, and I need to know a few things, like, what exactly are these (settlements or ruins?) and if settlements, what exact size?
Arush Vayem (which has a '?' next to it on the map)
Djerad Thymer
Djerad Kethendi
Arush Ashuak
But I have since found my answers simply by looking up Tymanther in the FRwiki... uh-DOH!
However, that now has me wondering where, EXACTLY, is Ruinspoke? The optimal spot would be at the (new) mouth of the River Alamber, just a few miles west of Unthalas, but I don't want to contradict the novels... anyone who has read them can give me any info? |
| Markustay |
Posted - 08 Apr 2018 : 22:15:30
Thanks Wooly!
So I am drawing in the Methwood ATM, and I can't help but wonder - Does anyone else think there might be an old, beat-up Vardo (gypsy/Raumvaran wagon) somewhere in there where a discredited sage (of alchemy) is cooking-up up some strange, addictive substance known as 'Cerulean Sky'? |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 08 Apr 2018 : 18:56:26
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Originally posted by Markustay
On the VERY bad map that came in the Watercourse novel (1st one), there is a site called 'Berrywilde' - not sure what ts supposed to be. The largest plain black squares are obviously keeps, but I can't tell what this smaller square is (settlements are round). I tried going through the novel to find it, but unfortunately, I do not have an OCR version, and by pg.11 I was feeling very queasy (for multiple reasons).
Getting REAL close to releasing something...
I found this, in a discussion about Sespech, here on the 'Keep:
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Originally posted by Mapolq
And the Watercourse Trilogy did have a map of the environs of Innarlith, but it was a simple one. It has only a few locations not mentioned in my map (like the estate of Berrywilde), but those are very small places which are there because they're important to the plot.
Further creative Googling found that it's Phyrea's family's country estate. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 08 Apr 2018 : 18:31:26
On the VERY bad map that came in the Watercourse novel (1st one), there is a site called 'Berrywilde' - not sure what ts supposed to be. The largest plain black squares are obviously keeps, but I can't tell what this smaller square is (settlements are round). I tried going through the novel to find it, but unfortunately, I do not have an OCR version, and by pg.11 I was feeling very queasy (for multiple reasons).
Getting REAL close to releasing something... |
| Markustay |
Posted - 07 Apr 2018 : 18:41:14
Hmmmm... thats a wee bit of a problem. Is there a portal associated with it? I have a separate icon for 'Eldathan portals'. Up until now I just thought all Eldath's 'Holy Sites' had them (or rather, the sites themselves became dedicated to Eldath because the portals were there). Nevermind - just read the entry myself. Its a ruin... although it could have easily been rebuilt in the past two centuries, especially if the site itself was 'holy in nature'. And thanks for the response, George.
Trying to release an updated map of a region I did for something else, and now I find myself having to create yet another 'starter map' for an adjoining area (I can't really directly attach my Unapproachable east Map to the Old Empires - they only meet at the corner). Thus, I have to create a rough (bare bones) map for the lower Taan (Murgôm, Semphar, & Raurin) and Golden Waters area. Fortunately, I already have a basic Utter East map (and I am hoping I at least sized THAT correctly), so I might have another corner of that one done elsewhere.
EDIT:
On the upside, I got a nice chunk of the OE done yesterday (by extending an existing Vilhon Reach Map), and I managed to get a map someone sent me from one of Erin's novels (Ash Lake region) to fit 100% perfectly - something I was unable to do on the larger, 5e-era continental map I did awhile back (that map was very rough - many changes have been made since then). I had a lot of trouble getting that whole region to work nicely (especially given Chessenta's topsy-turvy geographic conditions) on the large map, but it all seems to be coming together on the detailed one (as I expected). I realize now I should have just eliminated the Toadsquat River completely - it was a 3e-add cutting across the Eastern Shaar, and I didn't like it then, and it makes no sense at all on my 5e map. Also, Lake Umber up next to Thay was moved WAY east from where I had it on my big map - the new layout is 1000% better, IMO (but still using all of the 3e UE maps within the 1e/2e layout - no small feat). |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 07 Apr 2018 : 06:12:13
Eldath, Crystrum of Tranquility, Prayers from the Faithful p.22.
-- George Krashos |
| Markustay |
Posted - 06 Apr 2018 : 16:19:18
Anyone know what god 'Holyheart House' in the Chondalwood is to? I can't seem to locate it. I'm assuming its a nature-based god, of course, which could be why I am not finding it. |
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