So right now I'm making my second campaign/1 shot. It may turn to a campaign it may not. But I'm drawing a map of a warehouse. It's 30 x 20 ft. However, I've made a set of stairs leading up to a platform, and on the edge of the platform there is a fence. Now I know it's a long way to go and ask the D&D community about how to draw a damn fence for first time D&D players but why not? So here's what I need help with: How do I draw a fence on a top down map? Right now it's just a line but I was hoping to get a little more creative. But just a heads up, I RARELY draw. I've drawn much more since I started playing D&D. Before I maybe drew like every 2-3 year. So it doesn't have to be something for an art gallery. Just look more creative and nice, than a thick black line. :P
Thanks in advance! ^^
(Sorry if it's not allowed to post this kinda stuff in here. Just thought that drawing a map would go in under arts & crafts. That counts for tips as well I hope.)
Are you drawing this by hand on grid paper or something similar? If so then just a solid line with perpendicular lines to indicate a fence or gate would probably suffice. I'd highly recommend using some sort of online or digital map making program though as there are a ton more options to show exactly what you are talking about that would work very nicely.
I'm not exactly sure how you picture this fence/railing to look, but you can always just draw squares for the vertical columns that are planted in the floor and then connect them with 2 parallel lines representing the horizontal beams.
I have dungeon painter studios but when it comes to printing the damn map out it's easier to jump in a volcano and survive than printing a working sized map from that program. It's good for some things but the printing shit never works for me. Have to try something else at some point because I really really need ******* maps. But I don't want to buy all of those map making tools and find out they are too complicated or thing or that so.... Yeah. I just hoped that there was a easy way of making maps that didn't need an insane amount of eye to detail each time a player wants to more more than 1 ft. At the moment I'm using a small school mather folder thingy that has 1 cm grids. But I was just hoping for a cheap and easy and perhaps free dwarven forge ish thingy.
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So right now I'm making my second campaign/1 shot. It may turn to a campaign it may not. But I'm drawing a map of a warehouse. It's 30 x 20 ft. However, I've made a set of stairs leading up to a platform, and on the edge of the platform there is a fence. Now I know it's a long way to go and ask the D&D community about how to draw a damn fence for first time D&D players but why not? So here's what I need help with: How do I draw a fence on a top down map? Right now it's just a line but I was hoping to get a little more creative. But just a heads up, I RARELY draw. I've drawn much more since I started playing D&D. Before I maybe drew like every 2-3 year. So it doesn't have to be something for an art gallery. Just look more creative and nice, than a thick black line. :P
Thanks in advance! ^^
(Sorry if it's not allowed to post this kinda stuff in here. Just thought that drawing a map would go in under arts & crafts. That counts for tips as well I hope.)
Are you drawing this by hand on grid paper or something similar? If so then just a solid line with perpendicular lines to indicate a fence or gate would probably suffice. I'd highly recommend using some sort of online or digital map making program though as there are a ton more options to show exactly what you are talking about that would work very nicely.
I'm not exactly sure how you picture this fence/railing to look, but you can always just draw squares for the vertical columns that are planted in the floor and then connect them with 2 parallel lines representing the horizontal beams.
I have dungeon painter studios but when it comes to printing the damn map out it's easier to jump in a volcano and survive than printing a working sized map from that program.
It's good for some things but the printing shit never works for me. Have to try something else at some point because I really really need ******* maps. But I don't want to buy all
of those map making tools and find out they are too complicated or thing or that so.... Yeah. I just hoped that there was a easy way of making maps that didn't need an insane amount of eye to detail each time a player wants to more more than 1 ft. At the moment I'm using a small school mather folder thingy that has 1 cm grids. But I was just hoping for a cheap and easy and perhaps free dwarven forge ish thingy.