Weekender XLBS: Journeying Into The World Of Tabletop Cartography
September 11, 2016 by dignity
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happy sunday!
Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday arvo
Happy Sunday to all.
You guys think the Celts are bad you haven’t see the monster! It has different types from the sprue cut and uncut and I am not talking about how you take it off the sprue.
Great XLBS guys, thanks. Looking through the comments across the forums, Re-Roll has been very well recieved by the majority of backstagers. I don’t think anyone sees it as anything other than to compliment the website. I commented previously that to me it’s worth the backstage subscription alone because I don’t have the time to do the site justice and I like to browse content at my leisure and digital issues allow me to do that. GW have White Dwarf, Manic have Ironwatch, Warmahordes have Chronicles, BoW have Re-Roll :-). If you want structured feedback, put up a short questionaire… Read more »
Happy Sunday!
Know where you’re coming from. Campaign Cartographer is a b**** to learn to use, but you can do some great stuff with it
I maybe could be a little clearer that it was about the time it took to put together as much as it was about unique conent. I think if Re-Roll can be put together quite quickly, then it needs no new content. If it’s taking time to do it, then I think that time needs to justify itself as it takes time away from doing content for something else. I could easily be wrong about this and even with recycled content only it does work as a recruitment tool and so justifies the time. I think that charging for it… Read more »
Campaign cartographer seems like a good tool. Does it have any potential to be used as a campaignmap for miniature games?
I’ve taken my first steps into DBA and would like to make up a small campaignmap for my romans and carthagians to fight it out over.
CC3 does have the option to insert hexes onto a map. I have used it for a small campaign but I tend to agree with others who have commented that it is a hobby in and of itself. If I used it more often I would get better at it but there are people who use it professionally to do maps for game companies and books.
Happy Sunday!!
Well it would be happier if the video even started on my Android tablet… Over to my laptop!
I have been having problems on the tablet as well as it suddenly stopped working on Chrome. I have got it to work on Puffin though
Glad to be of help @warzan cant wait to see more!
Great show . Mierce miniature sell bases with arcs marked as part of their templars forge range. 30 40 50 60 80 100 and 120mm
@warzan check out Burrows and Badgers by Oathsworn. They produce a range of minis such as rabbit warriors you could use for the rabbit men. Another good mapping software is Dundjinni. http://dundjinni.com
And the old Bunnies and Burrows RPG by FGU
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/82542/Bunnies-And-Burrows
Happy Sunday All.
Intresting discussion about bases. I’m no great painter but have often found that if you put a little bit of effort into the basing of the minatures it can forgive even my sloppy painting. What I don’t like is when bases are over engineered with massive rocks or large parts of scenery taking the focus away from the model
I’ve always wondered why no one produces clear plastic bases that require no painting or flocking too allow the minatures to look like they belong on the specific table they are played on.
@warzan love the map, it looks really good.
Wow, thanks for the shoutout, my daughters eyes lit up when she heard it this morning (as did mine!). Really nice to meet you in person and glad you had a great day there. The exhibition is my go to place when I have painters block or in need of hobby inspiration besides BoW of course.
Nice to meet you too dude 🙂
Ben I think you must have missed my message about free Forgeworld open day ticket a few months ago but glad to see you got to go there in the end 😉 WH World was 100x better than the last time I visited a good few years ago, the cake at Bugman’s was epic!
I got first mention woohooo!!!
Great show guys, as always. There is another series of programs for dungeon and world building called Hexographer, Dungeonographer and Cityographer. There is a free trial version of Hexographer that is pretty powerful. It is more of a 2d style design system. Matt Colville has an entire YouTube series about running Dungeons and Dragons. He used Hexographer to livestream via Twitch with his followers to create a world called, Collabris. The videos of the world building process as well as Dungeon Master skills series can all be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/mcolville. One of the concepts that he likes to focus on,… Read more »
Morning chaps. Many thanks for the golden button. The Cwn Annwn (phonetic kun annoon, I think.) Are indeed from Welsh mythology. With regards to the warband I’ll be taking inspiration from the broard range of the Celtic peoples. I’ll certainly be looking at the ancient Britons, also the Irish and Gallic Celts as well as the Welsh. Fionn Mac cumhaill and Cu chulainn are planned as well as Boudicea. And possibly Pwyll Prince of Dyfed. Kind of like the Avengers of the Celtic world.
Hexographer also has 2 other programs that are free to use they allow you to make dungeons and cities as well.
Ben the Harey(Rabbit man relation?) Is right when he talks about authors basing worlds on what they know. CS Lewis based all of Narnia on County Down as it is where he spent his holidays as a child
And Ridley Scott based the nightmare industrial futurescape of Blade Runner on Middlesbrough…
Happy Sunday everybody
I think that you need a new episode of Justin vs Dragons, where Warren vs the mighty cartographer. Apparently he only knows one spell and he casts it often and with vigour on Warren, confusion. There is Justin in the corner, “We could go down without a map”.
“No I am making this map is kills me” Warren calls out. Justin “I’ll go find the local priest, I hope he knows resurrection”.