The Campaign Builder's Guild

Agreed on blending the dots... I think I'm going to blend the black outlines PERIOD... after looking at what I thought was a finished map... I have to agree with you... its been nagging at me, lol

Thx ghost.. and yes... its done in a way I didn't want to look perfect... I was going for like someone stated before an "old world" look to it. I'm currently working on individual mini maps for each town & possibly each region in more detail as well... we'll see about that tho... I've got a couple more weeks until my playgroup starts my campaign.. so it may be possible. This one took me about 5 or 6 hours from start to finish...

thx for the spellcheck :S my players would've given me shit for that lol

Ok... went off of some of ur names dragon... I believe I have a finished map

reposted....

The town "dots" have been added... as I said before.. any help in naming towns is greatly appreciated...
I also darkened the title line... I agree with you elemental.. hopefully the color changes I made before stuck as well in the new conversion to jpg...and unfortunately they didnt ... reposting...

Okay... color redone.. critique away...



Btw... if anyone can help me out with some more names for towns on the map it would be greatly appreciated

This is the map I'm working on for my current campaign... its not yet fully complete.. still have a few locations to add, but please critique!
(Colors are off a bit and a little too bright... was going for more flushed.. need to tweak em')

ok... an update on what I've currently got planned
(this is a rough outline of the campaign as a whole)

Claudus Invicta (the new emperor) married the previous emperors daughter
It was an arranged marriage (which she didnt want)
Invicta frames the church of Bane for the murders of some of his advisors after he learns of thier planned coup
(the advisors were in on the coup so he had them assassinated... his bride was in on it as well but he was unaware)
The Clergy and servants of the church of Bane are charged with treason & sentenced to death by be-heading
During thier executions the PC's escape with a small group of Banes faithful and fight their way out of the prison
(collecting their equipment on the way out)
From there they hide in the countryside, building their forces & creating their base (at the behest of the higher clergy)
After building their base the clergy sends them on an assassination mission to kill invicta
Now is when the PC's learn of the Empress's involvement in the coup (she is the contact who leads them into the castle)
The empress is unfortunately caught aiding the PC's and they are forced to flee the castle again.
Invicta now knows of his wifes involvement but uses her to his advantage (claims the PC's have kidnapped the empress)
The kingdom is now split & in civil war (one half Banes church .. the other half those loyal to the emperor)

Ok... any comments or suggestions on what I've got so far (remember its just a rough outline)

I like the idea of the newly appointed emperors wife being the true power-player behind the whole conspiracy. I definitly think I'll be using that one (Thanks).. As for what classes the characters will be playing, I believe one will be playing a MC Sorceror/Warlock, another will be playing a Warden, another always plays a barbarian so I'm fairly certain thats what she'll be playing, another has usually played a sneaky rogue or rangerish type character, the other two will probably be a figher or paladin type character and another caster type character.

One of my friends had a couple good ideas (work buddy that is). He suggested having three advisors to the emperor. One, an archwizard who is some type of diviner(he's also the one who found out of the plot by the church of Bane). The second, a cleric of Pelor, He serves as an envoy to the people and voices the citizens needs and opinions. And the third, the warlord, the commander of his armies (this is the guy who was in on the plot from the beginning, was the "inside guy" for Banes clergy, however, he got cold feet when the emperor pre-maturely learned of their treaturey so he switched sides). Also the emperor has in his employ, his spymaster, who's in charge of all the royal assassins and bounty hunters.

I like the ideas so far... maybe they could find a town or city that's sympathetic to Banes church and use it as a base of operations. lol, maybe take part in building a base in an abandoned cave system to serve as an underground temple to Bane.. (help create the BBEG's complex the goodie two-shoes will attempt to raid) And I like the hunter idea as well.. thankfully I've got a while to plan this campaign (current game we're playing in just started and the DM has planned this one for a while).. the ideas are startin' to pile up now  :whoa:

No prob nomadic.. appreciate the warning. And if you hadn't said something and I just expected it to not happen, you're probably right.. it would have bit me in the arse  x.

If anything they wont mess with each other just out of fear. Fear of punishment from one of the other's masters (clergy) for messing with their servant.

Not going to happen.. first off we're a group of friends who wont screw over each other (on purpose at least lol) and second, all the players are smart enough to realize that even though theyre evil they'll have to work together to accomplish what tasks the clergy of Bane sets before them. Plus they're all going to be on the same general side and the clergy of Bane won't accept failure and will punish those who fail.. (in my campaign at least).