My Version of the DCC Purple Planet
Hi, this is the first time I've shared a map here. There is an adventure pack called Peril on the Purple Planet published by Goodman Games for Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC). The overland map of the plateau is hand-drawn in black and white, and I believe drawn by Doug Kovacs.
However it's not suitable for showing to players since it has keyed locations marked on it. Also I preferred something in color. I acquired a cartography program called Hexkit by Cecil Howe, along with two additional packs of his tiles, through Bundle of Holding, so I decided to finally do something with it. The license allows for non-commercial sharing of works created with it.
I guessed approximately how many six-mile hexes I would need to lay out this plateau. I used a combination of hexes from the Fantasyland and Dangerous Scenery tile sets. I followed one of Howe's tips posted to Youtube explaining that you could take transparent icons and lay them over solid color backgrounds, so I could make purple mountains and hills, and pink dunes, to match the overall "Purple Planet" theme. I also made the snowy mountains rougher by adding an additional icon on top. Unfortunately there were no transparent mushroom forest icons, so I was stuck using the supplied orange tiles for those.
Anyway, it took a lot of hours getting used to the interface, but I think that what I produced looks pretty good. I think it has a bit of a stained glass feel to it. There were three important locations that I marked with "smoke" tiles. They were on the original map, they are described as having smoke columns above them so they'd be seen that way from a distant, and there are detailed rules for how far an adventuring party can see depending on height and terrain. I plan to use a "fog of war" effect to reveal the map to may players a bit at a time (this mechanism is also available through Hexkit), so the first they'll see is the smoke.
And here it is. I wanted to post something here because I've enjoyed seeing all of everyone else's posts. Thanks for having me.
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