Hi Folks,

I think while I get the shading/hand drawing stuff working right for me, I'll keep going with the Hex maps for the moment. They do the job, while still time consuming, not so much as hand drawing stuff, once you've got the symbols saved as either AI objects or brushes, well they're there aren't they? Here is the above map (more or less), done in hex style:

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