Cian wrote:

>>6) TMLers now communicating via psionics and I failed the roll

>Probably 6, but we all failed the roll. I’m in my busy season,

 

That’s what I was guessing (till I found my glitch).

 

>building some big stadium shows and other events.

 

That sounds fun!

 

 

>I could whip up a quick and crude continent outline. I would have to go look at the description.

 

Thank you for the offer and my apologies for only just seeing it now (see previous post on mailing list glitch at my end).

 

As you may have seen in my TTA write up, I did actually produce a ‘quick and dirty’ map – although it had a couple of glitches I only noticed when I printed it out far too late to have time to fix it before the session.  But then the players never went there in any case so I’ll save it for later!!

 

I’ll probably end up sending all this ‘sub creation’ to Freelance Traveller (a bit like my article on Denizens of Marburg), so it’s probably worth trying to get it as good as I can manage.  (Which is to say, not very thanks to the method I use for creating the things.)

 

Essentially, one of my favourite things is to draw world maps or continent outlines.  I much prefer to do it on paper but accept that I really need to have an electronic version.  I could use online thingies to generate computer drawn maps – they look very nice – but I miss drawing the crinkly coastlines… and I can’t always easily get features where I want for game purposes (e.g. for Junidy needing a north and south continent at the very least, ice caps, etc.).  Just call me Slartibartfast.

 

So my method is to take a blank Traveller map (that’s my other criteria, I want the ‘standard’, not the internet ones with half triangles off to the west) and import it into an art package on my tablet.  (Doing it on the PC won’t work because I can’t ‘draw’ on it with a stylus).  And then, in another layer, use the stylus to draw the map as if I were doing it on paper.  It can be a bit tedious – especially as I can’t often use ‘fill’ and there’s probably better ways of doing it, but I’ve not worked them out yet.  And just when I get some sort of system going have to change tablet (from iPad originally, to android and now to Galaxy Book (Windows)) so I’m constantly (well, every three or four years) having to learn new software.  (Minimally it must allow layers and preferably allow text placement.  Back in Brushes on the iPad I had to add text in PowerPoint after I’d imported a base image and that was a real pain if I needed to make a correction.).  Oh, and I like the blank IS Form 6 to have blank hexes for a key.

 

It doesn’t produce the highest quality maps, but they are mine and were fun if not quick.

 

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