Raven March: OSRIC game world sneak peek

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:44 pm

Here.

Just a bmp captured from Campaign Cartographer 3... by no means a finished project, but a nice little look at the whole thing. A certain amount of focusing in will reveal details, but not to close.

Raven March supplement will concentrate on the eastern end of the northern continent.

This isn't an official OSRIC game world, rather a world compatible with OSRIC.

More soon... it's coming together fast.

Wheggi · Post by **Wheggi** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:58 pm

Nice Semaj. I'm very interested in seeing what you do with this. The continent layout lends itself to many interesting possibilities as far as the development of societies on the planet.

- Wheggi

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:35 pm

Thanks, yeah, there are some interesting little corners. For instance, see the SW peninsula on the southern continent? You can't see it on this bmp, but that's a rainforest with a primitive culture guarding a giant crack in the ground referred to as "The Gates of Hell." I'll let you guess what goes on down there.

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:29 pm

This is a really cool project, Semaj. I know we've talked about it before, and specifically I like the fact that you're going to do your campaign world "as is" without trying to make it more generic. The modules you're doing for XRP are from this world, yes?

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:32 pm

Yes, though they don't say so in the text.

I'm going to post some close up shots here after awhile.

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:43 pm

Is there a point at which you're going to put the Raven March "Gazeteer" up on Lulu for people to get the finished product?

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:04 pm

Mythmere wrote:Is there a point at which you're going to put the Raven March "Gazeteer" up on Lulu for people to get the finished product?

This is my plan of attack... I know it looks like a nail but it's actually a tack.

Ok, poor humor aside...

1. Free PDF for the Raven March.
2. Not-so-free detailed PDF for all of Shiaar.

I'm working on 1 and 2 at the same time, and there's a method to my madness.

Maps included. I'm using CC3... which I recommend, btw, but apparently CC2 viewer, which is free, won't adequately render a CC3 drawing. Big hiccup in my plans, but no show stopper.

3. Later, a gazetteer for Shiaar available on LuLu or some similar avenue.

1 is on the verge of being finished... finally. 2 won't be too far behind.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:18 pm

A closer look at the March.

Obviously I'll have to expand the city names to make them readable.

PapersAndPaychecks · Post by **PapersAndPaychecks** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:21 pm

To what extent are those place-names anagrams?

They look sort of anagrammatic (is that a word? Semaj will know) to me.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:35 pm

PapersAndPaychecks wrote:To what extent are those place-names anagrams?

They look sort of anagrammatic (is that a word? Semaj will know) to me.

Some are. Some aren't.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:56 pm

Snag #435... I'm going to have to replace the CC3 symbols on the map with CC2 symbols in order for the whole thing to be viewed through the free CC2 viewer. That's really what I want... a map that can be expanded for detail.

That's a pity... the symbols for CC3 are nice and I really wanted to use them.