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So how do I make the actual style? Well first of all I have to decide on what kind of symbols I need to draw. After a while I thought that this might be something others miss too so I decided to ask Profantasy if they might be interested in making a style out of the symbols, which they were. So I started making my own ruins to be able to make the map I wanted. This was the kind of city I wanted to draw. But in the middle of those fallen cities life continued and people built new houses among the ruins. After the fall of the Western part of the Roman Empire the population in many towns shrank and a lot of the old buildings started to fall apart or where used as quarries. But sometimes I feel that the styles in the program miss some bits and pieces, for example I had an idea of a map that I originally got from an old map of Firenze in Italy where people lived among the ruins from the Roman times. It’s actually something I can sit and play with just for fun, dreaming up different places and try to make them as good looking as possible. One of the things I really like is to just make different versions of villages and cities. One example is my latest style, City ruins for City Designer 3.
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Other times I’ve made some styles when I’ve felt that I’m missing something in Campaign cartographer 3 or any of its add-ons. Most of the time I have to flesh out the styles with more symbols then the ones I’ve used in my maps, so that the style will work on its own. Both those mapping styles where later turned into styles for the monthly annuals. Two examples are the maps I made for the Trail of Cthulhu RPG campaigns Mythos Expedition (September ’14) and Cthulhu city (December ’17). Most of my styles have been made this way. Whenever I make my maps I always wonder if the map I make can be made into a style for CD3. I actually don’t remember exactly how many but I think it is around 15 styles so far. I’ve made quite some styles for the annuals over the years.