Cities of the Core

[vipera aspis]

this map is awesome. i enjoy making maps too. though usualy i dont use a computer. great map!

[Joël of the FoS]

I believe technically any work that difers from the original by more than 15%, or in a seperate medium can be regarded as the intellectual property of the new artist

15% only ? Seems low to me.

Anyway, you can look at the Mordent Carto Society website to have a good idea at what you can do on our fan side.

Joël

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

For Mordenshire click here. It comes with a complete map and write-up IIRC. Plus some other fun additions such as houses.

Yeah, but it's a map for ancient Mordentshire, back when Strahd and Az first visited a few hundred years ago. It's a good start, but could use an update.

I did just that for my Mordentshire Miser adventure:
http://themistway.com/miser.html

The direct link to my updated map is here:
http://themistway.com/pics/mordentshire-map.jpg

It probably could use even more updating, since the map still seems a bit sparse compared to the bustling feeling Mordenshire seems to have in the books.

[Wiccy of the Fraternity]

My bad. It's 1 inch equals 2.5cm. 1m is 3ft approx. I'm not used to the imperial system. When my mum tells me the temperature she uses farenheit and I have to ask what it is in real money.

1" = 2.54cm
1m = 3'3" (and a tiny fraction)
1.629Km = 1 mile

Remember, the 1,600 metres running event is not quite a mile

I was taught how to convert to and from farenheit and celcius some years ago, but I forgot the method. It is something like divide by 5, multiply by 9 and add 32, or something like that when changing to farenheit, you kist reverse it for changing to celcius. Actually, I think that is it, I just tried some things and it seemed to work

For once my poor excuse for a brain managed to recall something accurately

[quoteI believe technically any work that difers from the original by more than 15%, or in a seperate medium can be regarded as the intellectual property of the new artist (not that I'm claiming it).[/quote]

Not quite, it is called Artistic Licencing and still remains property of the original artist unless they give you permission to claim ownership of your reworking. This is the same copyright law that allows music artists to retain ownership of their songs when they have been covered by another artist.band.

[Catman Jim]

The scale was left in from the old map, but because I don't have the original, I really don't know how big 500 feet is on it (I can't measure it in inches).

The original map from the Black Box was approximately 8.5 inches by 9.5 inches, so it would be 4250 feet by 4750 feet, or about 1300 meters by 1450 meters, if I've done the math right. Of course, that was pre-Grand Conjunction, so the city could be very different in size now.

[Le Noir Faineant]

*greedy look in Des' eyes*

You have a new city map for me, don't you?

Seriously, that map was amazing!

Any chance that you would do another one?

Yours,

Rafael

[Ail]

Um, not it's not. 1m equals 2.5 feet. So, 150m equals 375 feet.

1" = 2.54 cm
12"/1' = 30.48 cm
5' = 1.524 m/152.4 cm

I don't know who taught you either the imperial or the metric system, but I assure you, 1.5 metres is the closest approximation to 5 feet you're going to find.

500'/5 = 100, 100x1.524 = 152.4 m or roughly, for game purposes, 150 metres.

Edit: Removed remark when I saw the corectional post. I'll leave the hard data in there though for future reference.

I'm sorry to point this, but you mean
1.5m
and not 150m.

5ft is the width of a grid square in a battle map.

Ail