• March 2017 Regular Challenge Results


    The Voyage of the Caribbean Crown
    by Diamond


    March 2017 Challenge Results

    The theme for this month's challenge came from Guild member Mouse. She suggested that we "Map a voyage by water" and put forward a couple of excellent ideas on how to run the challenge. Ilanthar explained the rules...
     
    This month's challenge is to do a map depicting a voyage by water, may it be by sea, river or lake, on a sloop, galleon or giant turtle and for whatever adventure or delivery you want!
    You can also decide to use some random elements, generously provided (as the idea of the challenge) by Mouse (here) :

    Dice 1: vessel
    1 = coracle / canoe / raft / rowboat... or other very small one or two man vessel.
    2 = fishing boat / dredging vessel / tug... or other type of commercial 'working' vessel.
    3 = gunship / battleship / aircraft carrier... or other type of naval vessel
    4 = submarine / amphibious land vehicle
    5 = pleasure boat / cruiser / ocean liner (larger recreational / leisure craft)
    6 = sailing vessel (any kind)

    Dice 2: water body
    1 = River
    2 = Inland sea
    3 = Ocean
    4 = Canal
    5 = Flooded area
    6 = Reservoir

    Show us some leagues under the seas, search for the Nile's source or any wonderful travel - and hopefully not too moisty - map!

    We had several boaty-themed entries, and sadly a couple that sank before the end. Among our completed entries was Along the Guilden, the Cormorant journey by fol2dol, showing a river journey from the French fantasy world Tregor. Fol2dol cleverly used the challenge to make a map for his next D&D session.

    New member Hustle joined a challenge for the first time and created A Sailor's Journal depicting "an excerpt from the private journal of a sailor in 'The Queen's Navy'". But there's a twist. The Queen and the sailor are ants, and the body of water they're crossing is a puddle. (Never, ever doubt the creativity and imagination of Guild members!)

    Francissimo also had a creative interpretation of the challenge criteria, inspired by Dan Simmons' Hyperion books. Space map River Tethys depicts "a river going through multiple worlds by using some kind of stargates to join all those world in one huge interplanetary waterway."

    Mouse joined the challenge too with entry After the Storm showing the rescue operation on a lowland plain after a massive flood.

    Our winner this month is Diamond with map The Voyage of the Caribbean Crown, depicting "the (very) ill-fated voyage of a luxury cruise ship from our world, the Caribbean Crown, that gets sucked through a portal to another world." Excellent story to accompany the map too. Diamond wins his eighth gold compass, quite an achievement! Check out the work in progress thread here.


    April 2017 Challenge

    April's challenge has already started but there's loads of time to enter. Your task this month is to create a map with an inset. Diamond says...
     
    Your challenge this month is a bit different. You can map whatever you want, in whatever style you want, but your map must contain an inset map. Wiki defines an inset map as:

    An inset map is a smaller map featured on the same page as the main map. Traditionally, inset maps are shown at a larger scale (smaller area) than the main map. Often, an inset map is used as a locator map that shows the area of the main map in a broader, more familiar geographical frame of reference.

    What you choose to depict on your inset map is also up to you, but it MUST be at a different scale than the main map. So if your main map is a regional map, maybe the inset shows the continent the region is on, or maybe a street map of a city located in the region. Or you could go the opposite route and have your main map be a city map, and the inset might show the region the city's located in.

    You could also think outside the box and have the inset map (or maps; you could have more than one!) show local mineral resources, or religions, language groups, whatever you want. Be creative!

    You read the rules and ask any questions here. You can start a thread or view the current entries in the Mapping Challenge folder here.

    Happy mapping!








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