Caergyd Point - Patrons' Edition
Added 2023-03-21 00:42:04 +0000 UTCCaergyd Point was inspired, in part, by Conwy Castle in Wales. "Caergyd" is my attempt at a made-up Welsh castle name. All I really know about Welsh is that there are several castles with names that start with "Caer" and that a lot of Welsh words have a Y in them. This is the culmination of those two pieces of knowledge. Hopefully it's passable.
This map was largely designed to be an ideal castle for a party to buy or otherwise acquire. To that end, it's got a lot of things a party would want in a castle: a smithy for repairing equipment, a laboratory/study for the wizard, a chapel for the cleric, a kennel for whatever filthy creature follows the ranger around, a secret room, a tavern, a trading post to unload loot, and several empty rooms for the party to do what they want with.
There's one more part of this map to finish: the sea cave underneath. I decided to make it separate in order to keep the map from being too huge. It's about half-finished already and I should have it up tomorrow.
There are only three things in the cave: a dungeon, storage space, and a parking spot for a ship. Still, for parties that do a lot of sailing, it'll be pretty useful. Or if you want to use this place as a pirate fort. Or if you want to have the party storm the castle to kill the bad guy, but leave a way for them to escape. I guess it opens up a few options.
Anyway, I'm gonna wrap that last bit up. Let me know what you think!
Download from Google Drive here (under NEWEST PATRON CONTENT).
Comments
I definitely used lighter colors on Mont-St-Michel than the ones I used for Caergyd Point. It's different for each map. For example, the Black Loch maps tend to use much darker colors than either of those two. Anyway, it sounds like your computer is working fine!
Milby's Maps
2023-03-28 00:29:01 +0000 UTCThat waterfall looks nice and bright white, although I do realize that the monitor I normally view my email and web stuff on has the brightness set down and the blue light adjustment on. However, even on my newish LG, the Caergyd Point maps look like I have a filter on them. I only noticed this in comparison to the Mont-Saint-Michel maps. Do those look of similar brightness or not to you? Of course , if nobody else worries about this, then I won't either!
Jeffrey P
2023-03-27 23:05:47 +0000 UTCI'm not sure. I rarely use pure white in coloring my maps, so I wouldn't expect any part of them to be that light. This isn't one of my more brightly colored maps, though, so that could be it as well. The waterfalls in this map about as close to pure white as you'll find in anything of mine: https://www.milbysmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Silver-Dragon-Inn-WEB-35x62-1.jpg If that looks fairly bright, it's probably me. If it doesn't, its possible that your monitor might need its colors recalibrated.
Milby's Maps
2023-03-27 23:00:54 +0000 UTCIs it just my computer, or are the maps rather dim? Compare to the brilliant white of the DM's notes, I feel like I have some setting wrong on my monitor.
Jeffrey P
2023-03-27 22:32:35 +0000 UTC
