Erythræum, the rpg world

[kortleggur]

I am preparing two sites. One is an English castle "Raby Castle", the other is the Egyptian temple complex at Luxor. I am using the roll20 standard and D&D 5th rule-sett. So I am using 140x140 pixels per "square", and I will cut everything down in 25 x 25 square theaters. So that each theater will be 125 feet or 38,1 meter. That should be good for slicing down the grand temple and the little castle.


Here are overview maps


Raby Castle



Luxor Temple

[kortleggur]

The temple is 20 frames.. here are the first two


the gray area is overlap

I have started to play around with patterns on the flooring

and the second frame

[kortleggur]

The castle is only 10 frames

here are the firs 3.

The entrance


The keep


and the courtyard

[kortleggur]

Perhaps it would be more standard to use a tile-sett to make players more comfortable. Or will that curb there creativity, I am not making a video-game here, no! What do you think?

[jkat718]

First off, this is a great idea, to convert real-world locations to D&D battlemaps. Most people won't recognize a location by its floorplan, but a DM can still use them for either inspiration or an on-the-spot battlemap. I think the style you have right now is perfect; a tileset would just make it look too rigid. Of course, for those who would actually use these as battlemaps, the fact that each square is not assigned a terrain type could be a hinderance. Maybe do both? Us the maps you've already made as a starting point, alter the floorplan just slightly to fit on a grid more exactly. For making gridded maps, I'd recommend Grid Cartographer.

[kortleggur]

Us the maps you've already made as a starting point, alter the floorplan just slightly to fit on a grid more exactly. For making gridded maps, I'd recommend Grid Cartographer.

ok, I downloaded the free tool for gridcart2 and put the temple up in it. I will need to buy it to export images and stuff like that. But here is the screenshot of the main temple, the one facing the inner courtyard.

[kortleggur]

In action

[CaptainJohnHawk]

These are looking great sir.
Very creative idea.
Take some REP

[jkat718]

I will need to buy it to export images and stuff like that.

If you want to send me your map files, I have the pro version, so I can do image exports and that sort of fancy stuff. For what you're using it for, it would probably be easier to use a straight-up image editing software for this project, given the fact that you're only really using the wall and floor features. For making a whole bunch of maps all at once, though, the pro version has some cool features, like notes (kind of redundant if you're exporting to a VTT, though), extra terrain types, and tinting. With some work, you could probably replicate a lot of those in an image editing software, so you're really just paying for convenience.

[kortleggur]

If you want to send me your map files [...]

Sure, here you go:
Temple.zip