BlackKnight wrote:

Yes, Looks good ZeroOrOneTurtle

Thanks, BlackKnight!
 

Caveman wrote:

...Cheers again!
 

Glad I could help.  And thanks for pointing out the link to the forum.  It looks like there's some good stuff to dig through... Cheers!
 

Caveman wrote:

Looks good to me, know what you mean by a bit bright, slightly tone downwards might help?

Where exactly did you put this land?

I use Flickr myself, how did you link the picture Tortuga? been trying to work that problem for last month or so...

Thanks, Caveman.  It's the upper portion of the peninsula jutting out from the mainland southward from the Gal Hills region, right across the mountains from the city of Gal itself.  On the main map, it is undeveloped- with only the forest shown.  The towns are my own homebrew, as are the names of the adjoining bays.  At this point it's sparsely detailed, as my immediate goal is to set up a small sandbox with just a few hooks to get a game going.  I'll be able to edit in more detail as the campaign progresses- if the characters stick around the region for any length of time.  My general concept of the peninsula at the moment:  Very sparse human population with just a few mostly Keltic towns / villages.  There are Viking settlements (outliers from New Vinland) on the peninsula's lower end- Thorp-thull is visible, and there may be one or two more off the Western edge of the map.  And of course there are monsters, and ruins (Roman, most likely).

As for linking a Flickr photo:  On the photo's page, click the share button.  Click on the "BBCode" tab.  From the drop down menu, choose an image size to share.  I usually just pick one of the "medium" options.  Copy the text that appears in the box.  This text can be pasted directly into a forum post here.  That's it.  No need to use the image button or use any other code.  It's not necessary, but you can delete the second link in the copied text.  If you leave it, it'll add a line of text under the photo:  "Photo by Caveman on Flickr... blah blah blah."  The method works well in a photo sharing forum I use, and I wasn't sure it would work here.  But, alas, it does!
 

An early attempt at digital "hand drawn" cartography for me.  I used CC3+ to generate the hex grid but everything else was done in Photoshop, by hand, using a drawing tablet.  The map is still a bit "bright," and I may tone it down a bit with addition layers of digital paint.  It's thinly detailed, but I've included a few things I know, or think I know.  As the campaign progresses, I'll be able to edit in more landmarks.  This is a part of the small peninsula that juts off the main continent, a bit South of Gal.

Handy Haversack wrote:

...And less of the Blair Witch part...

Yea, it did employ some well worn horror film tropes, but at least not with shaky cam-corder video.  The BWP, imo, was one of the biggest cinematic let downs of all time.  If they had put as much work into the actual film as they did the hype campaign, it might have been passable 

Oh, and I'll be on the lookout for "Tonight She Comes."  Thanks!

 

Well, in the last two weeks I've read collections from R.E. Howard, Lovecraft, and lastly CAS (The Collected Fantasies Vol. 1).  All three were great.  Howard's work was a revelation.  Lovecraft's work is spooky good but there were no great surprises, as I've had a fair amount of second hand exposure to his mythos.  But Clark Ashton Smith?  Wow.  This guy was a mad genius.  I'm thoroughly impressed by the breadth of genres he moves through with ease, with imagination overflowing throughout!
 

Brock Savage wrote:

It's such a damn shame how Howard's life ended. I can only imagine what he could have produced in his 50's or 60's.

At this point my knowledge of Howard's life is not much more than Wikipedia-deep.  But yea, it's tragic that he died so young.  And it does seem he had the kind of talent that would have become more refined in later decades.  It is a damn shame that those with that kind of raw and powerful vision often have such troubled souls.  

Idk, the trajectory of societal change has the potential to drive us all a little mad.  It seems Howard was more troubled by it than most, living in a time and place where "civilization" was rolling in with incredible rapidity.  I can "grok" how maybe it did make him feel at odds with his times, and perhaps like a stranger in a strange land.

Ghul wrote:

I would like to go adventuring at this location. What golden treasure might be found! ;)

It would make a cool setting for an adventure...  There's treasure aplenty.  It just needs to be populated by random baddies, and the dangers exaggerated into traps!
 

I'm sold on the hexagonal cloth / beach ball model.  Or as I've come to think of it:  The six-headed tailless flying squirrel model.  If the squirrel is fuzzy enough, the turtle will enjoy a deep sense of appreciation for having a warm shell.

Brock Savage wrote:

...there is just enough evocative description to fire up the imagination but things are left vague enough to ensure every DM will have their own vision...

Yessir, that's it precisely.  It's one of the huge draws of AS&SH for me.  It's a relatively young setting, it's not over-developed, and plenty of breathing room has been left for the DM's creativity.

Thank you kindly for the welcome