The Basin - Step 3

Artistic creation

Locating the sites/locations on the map

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In photoshop elements while looking at my basic 8"x8" outline map I turned on ruler and grid which overlaid an 8"x8" quarter inch grid onto the map. Next I rolled 2 eight sided dice and 2 four sided dice for each site/location writing down the numbers next to each. The two eight sided dice gave me the large one inch square on the map while the first 4 sided die gave me the half inch quadrant within that inch square and the second 4 sided die gave me the quarter inch quadrant within the half inch square. The list now looked like this:

8 and 2 - Fortification / Outpost - 7,3,3,4

1 and 5 - Lair / Monster - 1,6,3,4

7 and 2 - Landmark / Travel Feature - 7,1,4,1

6 and 1 - Civilization / Isolated Structure - 3,3,2,2

5 and 4 - Resource / Uncommon - 6,7,3,3

2 and 2 - Ruins / Structure - 3,8,4,3

2 and 1 - Ruins / Structure - 1,8,1,4

5 and 3 - Resource / Uncommon - 5,4,1,4

2 and 4 - Ruins / Resource - 8,3,2,1

8 and 6 - Fortification / Significant Stronghold - 5,2,2,3

4 and 2 - Resource / Common - 6,6,3,4

6 and 5 - Civilization / Small Settlement - 6,1,4,4

6 and 3 - Civilization / Persistent Encampment - 7,7,2,3

4 and 6 - Resource / Exotic - 1,8,3,3

3 and 1 - Resource / Common - 6,1,4,1

8 and 6 - Fortification / Significant Stronghold - 1,4,1,3

7 and 5 - Landmark / Historical Site - 4,5,1,3

1 and 6 - Lair / Exotic - 4,6,3,3

7 and 1 - Landmark / Travel Feature - 6,8,3,1

4 and 4 - Resource / Uncommon - 7,7,1,4

After numbering all the locations I went back to the map and marked the site/location number on the map. Having these locations on the map would now give me some interesting ideas as to the design of the map. The next step will be to create the landform map using Campaign Cartographer 3 and then use Adobe Elements to tweak that map to make it look a slight bit better...