Author Archives: Tolrendordm

The Annual Challenge: April Issue

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Tolrendordm

I didn’t quite get as far as I wanted on the March Challenge, having found that merging a Fractal Terrains full ‘world’ with an already created ‘world map’ in CC3 is not that easy 🙂 There are a number of … Continue reading →

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The Annual Challenge: Fractal Fun

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Tolrendordm

The March Annual issue is all about Map Projections, which normally implies that you’re starting with a globe!! In the last post on this topic I talked about how small and insignificant my Tolrendor ‘World Map’ was when placed on … Continue reading →

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Map of the Month: Profantasy Competition Winner!

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Tolrendordm

Profantasy recently had a competition to map an island, less than 3 miles across. The map could be drawn with any tools, as long as it met this basic requirement. There were a number of great entries (see here). Cartographer … Continue reading →

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The Annual Challenge: March Issue

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Tolrendordm

I’ve been looking forward to the March Issue!! Map projections are something I’ve never really spent a lot of time thinking about in relation to fantasy maps. I have however, always admired the projection maps produced by Ralf Schemmann (of Profantasy) … Continue reading →

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Content Corner: Targrin ‘Shadowblade’

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Tolrendordm

As promised, here is my first 13th Age character, a half-orc fighter created to match the character portrait I created for the February Annual Challenge. Several key things that need to be created for a 13th Age character are: a … Continue reading →

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Cartographer’s Annual Challenge: February 2014

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Tolrendordm

The Annual Issue for February wasn’t a style, but a collection of ready-made characters and monsters created using the recently released Character Artist 3 (CA3) add-on for CC3. Although I recently purchased this add-on, I’d never used it, so this month’s … Continue reading →

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Map of the Month: Dungeons of Schley

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Tolrendordm

For the past year, due to the Cartographer’s Annual Challenge, most of my personal mapping efforts have been directed at meeting the Challenge. As such, the Map of the Month column has suffered somewhat. So I’ve decided that from now … Continue reading →

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Icons and Tolrendor

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Tolrendordm

To play a 13th Age game, you can’t really ignore the Icons; they’re a fundamental part of the RPG. So if you want to play in a setting other than the default Dragon Empire presented in the core rule-book, as … Continue reading →

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13th Age: Inspiration!!

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Tolrendordm

A couple of months ago, I spent a few hours at the Dragonmeet convention in London. Unfortunately due to the fact I’d only flown in from New York a couple of hours prior, and I had other commitments during the day, … Continue reading →

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D&D 40th Anniversary: Words to Celebrate

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Tolrendordm

Over at the lair of the Kobolds, they’ve been running a cool D&D 40th Anniversary series of articles (one, two, three, four…) where they ask various luminaries of the RPG world four questions about their past and present D&D experiences. … Continue reading →

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