Overland Map Icons

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:18 pm

Anyone have a web site that contains icons for fantasy overland maps?

I'm looking for stuff to denote villages, towns, cities, ports, and points of interest.

Steel Rat · Post by **Steel Rat** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:28 pm

RPTroll wrote:Anyone have a web site that contains icons for fantasy overland maps?

I'm looking for stuff to denote villages, towns, cities, ports, and points of interest.

I've got a category for it on my site, but sadly nothing really there for fantasy. Just never got around to doing much with them. You looking for top-down or more like CC2 with an isometric sort of view?

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:37 pm

I've got an existing overland map in sepia I want to add stuff to. I plan to use a hex grid and stamp it with the icons representing fortresses, towns, villages, cities, and encounter locations. That way, as war ravages the towns and cities I can change the icons to reflect who occupies them and their state of health. Most of the stamps will remain invisible until the players actually get to the town or until the aquire a map of the area.

I also plan to mark encounter locations and (invisible to the players) the location of enemy forces.

So for that I"d like to get my hands on some generic icons to place on the map.

heruca · Post by **heruca** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:43 pm

Here you can find some abstract symbols:
http://www.dundjinni.com/forums/forum_p ... p?TID=7051

Also try Darkness' Campaign World Art pack:
http://www.dundjinni.com/art/user_art.asp

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:08 pm

I guess our previous discussion today spawned this question.

Are these free to redistribute or use on maps I might share with others?

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:42 pm

The requirements of the forum are that anything posted there be free from copyright and usable for any purpose.

You can read the forum posting guidelines here:

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But you had better say thank you or you'll get in trouble.

Post by **dorpond** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:53 pm

I was actually going to play like this too RPTroll ( I think we are talking the same thing ).

It was actually going to be more lilke the mapping function of World of Warcraft.

The whole inside of the map will be FoW (inside meaning that they will be able to see the borders fine). When the party starts to travel, I slowly start to reveal parts of the overland. If they happen to get information in town about a town or location, I remove the FoW covering that town or city. if the party is traveling through the woods, the FoW might reveal a crater or cave -- it makes exploring the whole area fun.

As a GM, I can have certain areas populated with certain random encounters. When they enter those areas, I can just do a random check (DMGENIE does this well) and have it create the encounter.

Anyway, I know what you are asking - it would be nice to have castles, towns and villages.

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:57 pm

There is a free campaign mapping tool called Autorealm that has those kinds of symbols in it. In the same category as Campaign Cartographer but easier to use (if slightly more buggy).

You could grab that and then put any of the symbols you need on a blank map. Export it at a resolution good enought to make tokens from and then use TokenTool to make tokens from the exported bitmap.

heruca · Post by **heruca** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:30 pm

RPTroll wrote:Are these free to redistribute or use on maps I might share with others?

Regarding Darkness's Campaign World art pack:

"This art is free for all to use without restriction. If you like it then the artist encourages you to donate a few bucks to any charity such as...

Donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation."

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:05 pm

dorpond wrote:I was actually going to play like this too RPTroll ( I think we are talking the same thing ).

Emryys once said that we were all looking for basically the same thing we just disagree a bit on how to get there.

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:41 am

RPTroll, have you looked at Hexmapper from Arr-Kelaan. It makes OS maps like the world of GreyHawk style...
There are icons in there, but they're not of the DJ quality/style... Cool OS look though

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:26 am

Most of my gamers are looking for functional vs. golly gee whiz although I do have one guy that went ape caca over Vry's maps. So now that's become our standard outdoor battle map.

The link posted by Herc had some stuff I might be able to use a terrain stamps. I'm still trying to figure out is if this is going to work. It will first required hexes work properly. (poke)

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:37 am

Emryys wrote:RPTroll, have you looked at Hexmapper from Arr-Kelaan. It makes OS maps like the world of GreyHawk style...
There are icons in there, but they're not of the DJ quality/style... Cool OS look though

Windows 95 VB

I need stuff that runs on my linux box.
Maybe I can snitch the map key stuff though.

Monty · Post by **Monty** » Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:14 pm

I have taken 58 symbols from AutoRealm for my use so if you want them as weel I have attached them so you can use them if you want.
I aimed to make them around 200 px each to retain some quality when used in Maptool so hopefully it will be useful for anybody looking for this kind of symbols.

Post by **aliasmask** » Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:23 am

What's the licensing on these images. Did you create them, did they come from the program where it specifies they are open source and you're allowed to distribute them?

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