Actually, the maps look pretty awesome:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fantasy-Campaign-Materials-circa-1976-198_W0QQitemZ300258533540QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item300258533540&_trkparms=72%3A1222%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
EDIT: Is one of those larger maps Blackmoor? It looks sorta like it...
Quote from: KenHR;248953Actually, the maps look pretty awesome:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fantasy-Campaign-Materials-circa-1976-198_W0QQitemZ300258533540QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item300258533540&_trkparms=72%3A1222%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
EDIT: Is one of those larger maps Blackmoor? It looks sorta like it...
Pfft! I threw away my own 20 years of D&D notes. Why would I buy some other guy's? :D
Besides - my maps (http://jalan.flyingmice.com/Karai.html) were better!
-clash
Quote from: flyingmice;248966Pfft! I threw away my own 20 years of D&D notes. Why would I buy some other guy's? :D
Besides - my maps (http://jalan.flyingmice.com/Karai.html) were better!
-clash
Obviously you're not the target market. :)
Your maps are objectively better, though. That's fantastic work.
On the one hand, it'd be kinda cool to peer inside someone else's world. But do I really need another pile of random papers. I have enough trouble deciphering my own decade plus old notes - I imagine someone elses would nigh impossible.
Quote from: Nicephorus;248982On the one hand, it'd be kinda cool to peer inside someone else's world. But do I really need another pile of random papers. I have enough trouble deciphering my own decade plus old notes - I imagine someone elses would nigh impossible.
Absolutely. It's neat to come across a stray page of notes or some maps in a used book or boxed set, but this might be a bit much. I just thought it was funny that someone was even selling someone's random notes and scribbles.
Nice maps Flyingmice.
Over $10 now. It looks like a fun collection; if I was studying the cultural/ethnographic history of D&D, it'd be a gold mine. As it is, yeah, I don't have room for such a thing.
Quote from: wulfgar;248992Nice maps Flyingmice.
Thanks, Ken, Wulfgar! I do think they are good, but not objectively better. They are a completely different type of map, and you can't compare apples and oranges, and "objectively" can't apply to anything where personal taste is involved in the judging. They just are
subjectively better for me, is all. :D
-clash
Quote from: Elliot Wilen;248995Over $10 now. It looks like a fun collection; if I was studying the cultural/ethnographic history of D&D, it'd be a gold mine. As it is, yeah, I don't have room for such a thing.
I was, of course, joking in the spirit of the original post. Still, it's nice to know
someone was interested! :D
-clash
Quote from: flyingmice;249037Thanks, Ken, Wulfgar! I do think they are good, but not objectively better. They are a completely different type of map, and you can't compare apples and oranges, and "objectively" can't apply to anything where personal taste is involved in the judging. They just are subjectively better for me, is all. :D
-clash
No, no, no, did you get the memo? I am the final arbiter of taste in gaming maps.
Yours are objectively better. :)
Quote from: flyingmice;249038I was, of course, joking in the spirit of the original post.
Of course! I wasn't ragging on you for harshing his buzz or whatever.
Disappointed to see that the price is now $3.50--either I made a mistake or somebody retracted. I hate to see culture go into the trashcan; obviously we can't save it all but I'll bet there are some pretty inspired campaigns out there that were private labors of love and collaboration in small groups, that never made it into publication in the wider world. For people who are seriously interested in gaming culture, that stuff ought to be as interesting as the multivolume collections of Prof. Tolkien's not-ready-for-primetime notes.
Someone probably realized that the typed / printed notes don't have spaces between the period at the end of a sentence and the start of the next one. Deciphering someone else's notes would be hard enough, but jammed together ideas like that would make it impossible for me.
Quote from: flyingmice;248966Pfft! I threw away my own 20 years of D&D notes. Why would I buy some other guy's? :D
Besides - my maps (http://jalan.flyingmice.com/Karai.html) were better!
-clash
Those are freaking amazing Flyingmice, as someone who loves making his own maps, what's your secret?
I have a bunch of ideas I'll sell on eBay if anyone is interested...
(And some used gum.)
Seanchai
Shipping is to much on this one for me.
Quote from: GrayPumpkin;249077Those are freaking amazing Flyingmice, as someone who loves making his own maps, what's your secret?
Thanks, GrayPumpkin! :D
I used pencil to lay it out, colored pencil for political differentiation and water, Mars .005 technical pen for lettering and inking, and a spray airbrush with ink for relief shading.
I studied maps of real areas with landforms like what I was drawing to see what rivers would look like in that type of land. For example, the south-western section is very flat, alluvial land, so I studied maps of the rivers in Louisiana and tried to get that looping, braided feel to the rivers in that area.
Patience is always a virtue as well. :D
-clash
Um... Clash? I checked out your maps with a fistful of Lube they're so awesome. As a dude who LOOOOOVE to draw maps, I gotta give you mad props.
Also: Someone needs to kick this guy in the balls for that artwork. Christ.
-=Grim=-
Bidding is up to $31
Just over five hours to go on the auction...
Hmmm...checking this guy's other auctions, I see this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Judges-Guild-Miscellaneous-Unique-Items-1976-1978_W0QQitemZ300258527954QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item300258527954&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14
Is/was he connected w/Judges' Guild? It almost seems like the "Bob" he mentions here is Bob Bledsaw?
Quote from: GrimJesta;249364Um... Clash? I checked out your maps with a fistful of Lube they're so awesome. As a dude who LOOOOOVE to draw maps, I gotta give you mad props.
Also: Someone needs to kick this guy in the balls for that artwork. Christ.
-=Grim=-
Thanks, Grim! :D
-clash
Well there you go. The guy is Bill Owen, co-founder of Judges Guild!
And the auction of Doug's stuff (whoever he is) fetched a pretty penny.
I offered $38, since I was interested in some guy's game scribblings from 1976. Whoa. 164 bucks for the final price. That's impressive.