So I spent a good amount of time tonight whipping up an eye of terror map for an upcoming rogue trader game and thought I'd try and share it with everyone. Comments would be appreciated.
Eye of Terror Map - v1.0
Wow, this is great, good work. I assume we have your permission to download this and use it?
Nice. A couple of things...
1) Cadia should be a fortress world, not a war world. Fortress world has only popped up in DeathWatch to my knowledge. It's basically a gray hexagon IIRC.
2) You're using the official icons. It makes the map look consistent, but if you need to use both "Hive World" and "Mining World", some people with color distinction issues, or some printers and monitors, may not show those shades of blue quite distinctly enough. As a general rule, using color as the only distinguishing characteristic for info-graphics is going to cause someone, somewhere a problem (And I've run into this problem with some of the icons in their printed products when slight variations in ink or lighting cause it to look like both or neither). That's a quibble with whoever came up with the icons, certainly your map looks sweet.
3) I wonder if there shouldn't be a different icon for Dark Mechanicum forge worlds? Perhaps the forge world icon laid over the chaos icon? Not absolutely needed, but might add a bit to making the Eye look like a sea of badness.
Cardinal Nicodemus said:
Wow, this is great, good work. I assume we have your permission to download this and use it?
Of course!
CorpseGod said:
Nice. A couple of things...
1) Cadia should be a fortress world, not a war world. Fortress world has only popped up in DeathWatch to my knowledge. It's basically a gray hexagon IIRC.
2) You're using the official icons. It makes the map look consistent, but if you need to use both "Hive World" and "Mining World", some people with color distinction issues, or some printers and monitors, may not show those shades of blue quite distinctly enough. As a general rule, using color as the only distinguishing characteristic for info-graphics is going to cause someone, somewhere a problem (And I've run into this problem with some of the icons in their printed products when slight variations in ink or lighting cause it to look like both or neither). That's a quibble with whoever came up with the icons, certainly your map looks sweet.
3) I wonder if there shouldn't be a different icon for Dark Mechanicum forge worlds? Perhaps the forge world icon laid over the chaos icon? Not absolutely needed, but might add a bit to making the Eye look like a sea of badness.
Thanks for the help! I'll try to make the changes in the next version!