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    Map Baldur's Gate - Sword Coast map [commission]

    Last year I had the pleasure and privilege to work with James Ohlen and Arcanum Worlds on this piece.
    It began as the 20 year anniversary of the original Baldur's Gate video game, which I played many, many times.
    And, aside from the classic crashes =P , I enjoyed immensely. Except the Flaming Fist.
    Ok, ok... so I was trying to steal people's stuff and pickpocket... nobody's perfect. ;P

    So this was beyond cool to work with the man who helped bring that to life way back then.
    I wanted this version to be something people could be inspired by, and hopefully transported into the environment.
    I hope this version will stand the test of time and be around for another 20 years.

    It ended up becoming a campaign setting book over on the DMsGuild -
    https://www.dmsguild.com/product/269...aldurs-Gate-5e
    Definitely go pick up a copy. Works like that help more maps get made.

    It was origianlly to be part of an anniversary book for Beamdog.
    Beamdog is the company that revamped BG and is made up of people who originally made BG.
    Not sure what changed and why, but I'll let you know when I know.

    I'll be dropping a few more maps over the next few weeks, plus some closeups over on
    twitter - https://twitter.com/jstevensonart
    and tumblr - https://jstevensonart.tumblr.com/
    maybe even instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jstevensonart/
    though IG is a bit more of a pain to work with. Like today.
    shakes head. IG is just idiotic at times.

    I hope you enjoy this look at the Sword Coast.
    They needed it to resemble the layout of the original game, which you can find easily online.

    Baldur's Gate - Sword Coast by jstevenson.jpg

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    *clap clap clap*

    Astounding! As i said in the last thread, the words to praise your work start coming up short for me. This is so evocative and it transports me into that place for sure...so i'd say you absolutely succeeded in that!

    Thanks for sharing your works with us, J. I know i love to get lost in your maps every time.
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    Sooooo good! You don't normally get to see this far south in Faerűn, so this is a pleasure to see, great work, John!
    Last edited by Adfor; 04-29-2019 at 06:33 PM.

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    Holy....Be still my beating heart. That is epic, the client must be ecstatic! John, this is your best work yet and that is saying alot. Quick, somebody give this one an award! This is the leading candidate for map of the year, I know it is a bit early, but come on....
    Last edited by Galendae; 04-29-2019 at 02:16 PM.

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    I beg you, a tutorial on how to do forest like that.

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    I'm not a computer gamer but I've heard that Baldur's Gate is ranked among the top 10 computer games of all time. What a cool honor to work on such a prestigious project. And your clients were privileged to have such a talented cartographer breath new life into their world. Excellent work.

    Cheers,
    -Arsheesh

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    Dang it!! You are making it really difficult to keep up with all this fine work, and I am gonna have to get another hard drive just for my inspirational folder if you don't slow down.

    Oh, and this is excellent BTW!!
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    That is gorgeous!! Snagging for the inspiration folder for sure.

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    That's great ! If only the original game would look more like this I might play it.

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    Nice ! Gorion would be proud of your actions !

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