Comments on: As Much of the Story as Possible:Map Talk with Sean Macdonald

By: Lilith

Lilith — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:18:34 +0000

Very nice interview and lovely maps!

By: Jakk

Jakk — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:29:09 +0000

Great maps, and a fascinating interview… like Bog97th, I would also be interested in knowing what software Sean uses, in particular for the map of Armand’s Apartments.

By: Bog97th

Bog97th — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:21:40 +0000

I also would be interested in knowing what programs he uses.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:57:27 +0000

Great interview!

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:35:44 +0000

Perhaps crushing is an overstatement. Let’s just say that the traffic and the file size together made a noticeable spike.

More visitors is certainly all to the good!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:03:02 +0000

Having just thumbed through my copy of _ToME_, I can concur with Mrs. Nephew’s comments– and given that there aren’t usually a lot of maps in Ars Magica stuff, it’s fantastic to have gotten such quality work.

-Ben.

By: Jeff Visgaitis

Jeff Visgaitis — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:26:42 +0000

Crushing on bandwidth for those little jpegs? Maybe you need a better webhost…

By: Darkon Turas

Darkon Turas — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:21:52 +0000

I would love to know which programs he uses to work on those maps with. I keep thinking its something a bit easier to work with than Photoshop.

By: Joe Frazier, Jr.

Joe Frazier, Jr. — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:56:49 +0000

Great article! As a member of the cartographersguild, I greatly enjoy seeing great maps and any tips anyone can provide is much welcomed.

By: Cam Banks

Cam Banks — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:22:29 +0000

Sean is one of the greatest people to work with. When I was writing Price of Courage, a huge Dragonlance adventure for Margaret Weis Productions, Sean and I would bounce ideas back and forth all the time for locations and encounter areas. Sometimes I would throw some crazy idea at him and he’d come back with this amazing map, which I would then turn into a series of cool encounters. I really hope I get to work with Sean again; I miss it!

By: Dragonhelm

Dragonhelm — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:37:28 +0000

Sean certainly has come a long way since working with us over at the Dragonlance Nexus. He’s one of our greatest success stories. He’s quite a talent, and just a great guy.

Trampas

By: Bill Steinen

Bill Steinen — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:30:47 +0000

Along with being an excellent cartographer, Sean runs one of the most fun D&D campaigns I’ve ever played in; he really puts my Kobold wizard through the paces. I urge everyone to buy lots of stuff with his maps so he’ll stay in a good mood and not do bad, bad things to poor little Smeepax.

By: Kobold Quarterly

Kobold Quarterly — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:22:32 +0000

The images are crushing on bandwidth already, and the WotC ones cannot be provided at full resolution.

Using them in a discussion of mapping at low resolution is covered under fair use. Using them at full res is potentially infringement.

The Open Design map, however, could be linked to higher-res. Hm.

By: Darkjoy

Darkjoy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:24:26 +0000

The maps are very good looking!

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:31:57 +0000

Great interview. Any chance of having those images link to full scale maps? That would be great.