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Longboat Mountain: Longboat Valley
🕑 Added 2024-05-16 18:28:07 +0000 UTCHere’s the map that started the whole Longboat Mountain set (location G on the Longboat Mountain overview – posted last month). I drew this based on a dream I had just as I was waking up one morning, and liked it enough to expand the whole thing into a whole set of maps. We won’t be tackling the points of interest in the Valley quite yet, as we’ll continue going through the other points of interest on the mountain proper before we detail the key locations up here, but since this map was the one that started it all, I wanted to show it off now instead of hanging on to it for months.
Longboat Valley contains the remains of a boat of Brobdingnagian proportions – a titanic craft from another era or world where trees grow to a size where you can cut them into almost mile-long ribs for the ship’s construction. At some point in the prehistory of this world, the boat got stuck (some say tossed) upon the heights of what is now Longboat Mountain. The structure of the boat is roughly four miles long and takes up almost the entirety of the valley that may have grown up around it, depending on the story.
The floor of the valley is broken up into sections by the massive ribs of the ancient craft, with small forests and pasturage taking up some of these. At the centre of the valley is a lake (F) and a collection of massive stones that were evidently a stone circle that had fallen as the waters washed away their support. The cold pond here comes from a stream (G) from further up the mountain before flowing down the valley and the rest of the mountain. Along the side of this lake are the pastures of the farm at H.
The path up the mountain follows the stream as it descends (A) and leads through the eastern portions of the skeletal craft. The great ribs of the ship act as a wall behind the farmstead, and beyond it are the “bones” of the old aft castle – spars still pushing hundreds of feet in the air. A path leads through the hills, past the building and standing stones (I) and then to the back of the valley (J).
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,200 x 13,200 pixels (34 x 44 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10‘ squares that make sense with the design) – so resizing the image to 2,380 x 3,080 pixels or 4,760 x 6,160 pixels, respectively.
https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/05/16/longboat-mountain-longboat-valley/
Comments
Simon 'Landmine'
I was about to say that I couldn't see the hexes on the 'hexes' map, and then when I zoomed in, I realised that you'd marked them with pale blue dots. Carl Sagan would be proud!
