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Airships & Steampunk Classic World/Kingdom Preview
Hi All,As we approach the end of the month, it is time for another preview. Here are the Classic World/Kingdom icons created by artist/cartographer Keith Curtis. As usual, the icons match up roughly to the isometric style world/kingdom icons.One more preview before the end of the month--likely tomor...
Isometric World/Kingdom Steampunk & Airships Preview
Hi All,Keith has finished up another subset of this month's icons! In addition to the standard capital, city, town, village, & fort, this month we've got a dam, airship hangar, airship (of course!), mooring, forge, factory, mines, university, floating city, and even a volcano that has been t...
Airships & Steampunk Settlement Icons Preview
Hi All,We still may add a couple icons to this subset, but here are the Airships & Steampunk settlement icons for the month. In includes several airships, a couple airship hangars, and a factory. For non-airship buildings we have a steampunk university, workshops, library, mansion, cathedral, opera ...
Several Battlemat Samples & Poll Request
Hey folks,I'll be posting our poll for October's theme tomorrow & sending out the month's icons. So If you have theme suggestions, please post a comment.Here are several ship battlemats (which will be part of the download) which really helped us make sure the set was complete.Joe
Classic & Isometric Icons Previews
As with our "settlement" icons, we're making most of our "world" classic & isometric style icons into ship tokens. We've also got a couple of non-ships for asteroid cities & towns as well as ports to place on planets.We'll have a few more battlemat ships to show off as we...
Mosquito Battlemat
Hey folks,This month's battlemat previews are going to be a bit different from the past. I'll be making several ship battlemats with the graphics artist/cartographer Keith Curtis has created.Here we're starting small: This ship is a small Mosquito with a low forward deck, a main deck and...
Magic in Space Not-Settlement Icons
It was the dawn of the 3rd age of mankind... The Deep Space 5 asteroid station was a dream given form. Its mission: to provide a neutral territory for the factions of cosmic space to meet and negotiate in peace. One faction's ships are inspired by sea creatures, another by insects, and the third...
Magic in Space Ideas
Hi Folks,This post is just for you at our highest backing level to have some extra insight & input into our new icon set for the month.Keith and I have talked over what to do, and while we can't do anything exactly Spelljammer, we can do our own take on a nautilus ship, moth ship, hammerhead shi...
August's Utopian Future Icons (& Two Prior Sets)
Another month is in the books! Below are links to the Utopian Future icons Keith Curtis has created. As a bonus/in case you forget to get them, we have links to the past couple of month's icons as well.Don't forget to vote in our theme poll if you're at the $3 pledge level or higher. It ...
Utopian Future Battlemat Sample/Preview
I'm really happy with how this battlemat preview of a small ship has turned out! Instead of our often contrived maps, here's a map you can use for your far future game. We'll include the raw battlemat image & .wxx file for your use too.We will post the links to get this month's icons...
September's Theme Poll
We've got one more preview for this month, which we'll post tomorrow. Meanwhile, what should we do next month?
Utopian Future Classic World/Cosmic Icons Preview
As with our isometric icons previewed a week or so ago, here we have a mix of icons useful for cosmic/sector maps as well as some for an alien's planet surface.In the case of the planet surface icons, I adjusted the background colors of the terrain to have no blue so we get a more alien look usi...
Utopian Future Buildings & Top-Down Ships Preview
As posted the other day, Keith and I looked to Star Trek Federation for inspiration fitting our Utopian Future theme. While before for the settlement subset of our Outer Space Expanded set (Sept 2020) we did several buildings for a moon colony, here we're doing another set that could be a moon c...
Utopian Future Isometric Map Icons Preview
Let the previews begin! "Utopia Future" won our poll for the run-off for what type of future icon set we should make... which implied to us to look for inspiration from Star Trek's Federation. We did this a couple years back (and to a small degree even before that)... so while we're ...
Theme Clarification Poll (take 2)
[My apologies--I intended to let you vote for all the ones you like, not just your favorite.]"In the Year 3000" won our poll, but that can vary quite a bit--do we create far future icons of a Utopia that are Star Trek-y? Or has society collapsed and now we have a Mutant Future along the line...
Theme Clarification: What do you want to see?
Hey folks,In the Year 3000 (Far Future) is our winning theme of the month, but that can be taken several different ways... so we want to ask especially those of you at the $7+ level what you'd like to see.To Keith, "In the Year 3000" suggests a more utopian society (Star Trek ish) than s...
August's Ancient China Icons (+2 previous sets)
Below is a link to the Ancient China icons Keith Curtis has created. As a bonus/in case you forget to get them, we have links to the past couple of month's icons as well.Don't forget to vote in our theme poll if you're at the $3 pledge level or higher. It ends at 9pm US eastern time toni...
August's Theme Poll
Hi Folks,As usual, vote for all the themes of icons you're likely to use. Looks like we'll be doing something different thematically from prior months which have focused on medieval and earlier time periods or fantasy.We'll have July's icons posted tomorrow.Joe
Ancient China Battlemat Icons Preview
It is a bit hard to come up with a single map idea that will incorporate a fishing boat, tents, furniture, weapons, four sets of stairs, and more. So I had to fall back on just making a labelled collage of all of this month's Battlemat icons.As usual, we'll have links to get the actual icons...
Chinese City/Village Settlement Map Icons Preview
We're nearing the end of the month, so here is one of the final two previews! I'm very happy with how this example map turned out, even if I had to shoe-horn the bridge & ship into it. It would be nice if I added a few more copies of the houses on the lower left and upper right but I also do...
Ancient China Classic World/Kingdom Icons Preview
Here is a sample map with all the "classic world/kingdom" icons that artist/cartographer Keith Curtis has created this month. More previews coming!
Revised Ancient China Isometric Map Icons
After yesterday's post, we had a couple of good suggestions and I realized Keith & I forgot a couple of additional terrain icons we had planned. So here we have the same preview plus those additions & some tweaks to fit all the new stuff. For terrain, on the far left we have bamboo forest & rice...
First Ancient China Icons Preview: Isometric World/Kingdom
Artist/Cartographer Keith Curtis has cooked up over 20 ancient China isometric world/kingdom map icons in this month's set. Yes, it has several icons to let you build a great wall and of course there is an imperial city, palace, and martial arts temple. We also have a couple shrines, pagodas, to...
Ancient China Icon List
Hi Folks,This is a special message for those of you at the $7 pledge level to have some extra input on the icons this month. Keith and I have brainstormed the lists, and here is what we came up with for each set.Classic & Isometric World/Kingdom: City, Town, Village, Palace, Fort, Temple, Ruins, Cas...
June's Undersea Icons Download Links
Below is a link to the new Undersea icons and the past couple of month's icons as well in case you didn't get a chance to download them.Don't forget to vote in our theme poll if you're at the $3 pledge level or higher. It ends at 9am US eastern time tomorrow.June's icons: Underse...
July's Theme Poll
Help us pick next month's map icons theme! Please vote for as many as you'd find useful. Thanks again for your support!
Undersea Battlemat Icons Preview
Hi All,First of all, if you've got an idea for next month's theme poll, please get it to me soon. I'll post the poll for July's theme tomorrow.Meanwhile, this post has all the battlemat icons for our Undersea set.The other big Worldographer news is a new feature just added today in v...
Undersea Settlement Scale Icons
Hi Folks,We'll be adding a few of the suggestions based on our last post to the sets. Meanwhile, here is our settlement scale map icons preview. It is divided into two main groups: ancient looking undersea buildings and futuristic buildings. Hopefully we've hit all the main needed buildings!...
Classic Undersea Map Icons Preview
As promised, here is a preview of the classic style world/kingdom icons!Just like the isometric icons, here we have kelp areas, some algae "farmland", undersea hills, mountains, a smoker, and a volcano. For features, we have ancient domed city, town, village, villa, fort, and ruins icons. Th...
Undersea Isometric World/Kingdom Preview
Hi Folks,Keith Curtis and I are set to have a shortened month because we both were exhibiting at Origins last weekend and we both have short trips set for late this month. So Keith has completed all the isometric & classic icons. Above is a sample showing the isometrics, and I'll likely have a s...
