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Old 02-05-2012, 01:10 PM   Top  -  End  -  #61
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Should we include maps in this thread? I've got a few from a friend that is great at that stuff.
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Old 02-05-2012, 03:40 PM   Top  -  End  -  #62
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Maps should be fine. In fact, I think there were already some earlier in this thread.
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Old 02-05-2012, 09:00 PM   Top  -  End  -  #63
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Old 02-06-2012, 12:47 AM   Top  -  End  -  #64
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^ chanimur is awesome. I just discovered him (her?) the other day and saved so many maps for inspiration. *claps*
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Old 02-07-2012, 03:31 PM   Top  -  End  -  #65
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Jim (Chanimur) is definately a him. Look him up as Diamond on the Cartographers guild. He's always putting forward quality stuff for their contests.
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Old 02-07-2012, 03:44 PM   Top  -  End  -  #66
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Because women are unable to create any quality work.
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Old 02-07-2012, 05:25 PM   Top  -  End  -  #67
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Because women are unable to create any quality work.
You give me half a mind to sig that, maybe quote mine it by removing the "Because" part :P

In all seriousness, nobody indicated that women can't produce quality work, I think the "definitely" part pointed to the name "Jim" rather than the later part about quality work
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Old 02-07-2012, 06:06 PM   Top  -  End  -  #68
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I know it's really just two unrelated sentences appearing connected to each other because of the way it's displayed.

But you may quote it, with source.
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Old 02-07-2012, 07:58 PM   Top  -  End  -  #69
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Can you guys help me find a couple things? I'm looking for cities suspended from treetops and ships large enough to serve as floating cities.
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I'm also looking for a picture, I had it a long time ago (when the internet was so much smaller). It is a picture of a castle on top of a mountain with a skybridge leading to another tower.
But I'd like any pictures of mountain top castles.
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Old 02-08-2012, 01:23 AM   Top  -  End  -  #71
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Because women are unable to create any quality work.
Hey, I don't like my words being misconstrued. There was nothing sexist meant by my words at all. I know many good artists, certainly better than myself, of both genders in a wide varieties of fields. I also know people that don't have an artistic bone in their body. Such is the benefit of living among such a varied species as man. I'll be more careful next time I want to brag on one of my friends. Sheesh.
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Old 02-08-2012, 06:14 AM   Top  -  End  -  #72
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No it wasn't. It was just a slightly unfortunate combination of sentences.
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Old 02-10-2012, 04:19 PM   Top  -  End  -  #73
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Some buildings, cities and landscapes:
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Old 02-10-2012, 04:31 PM   Top  -  End  -  #74
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I recognized Waterdeep from the first quarter of the map, and I never played anything in the city.

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Old 02-10-2012, 04:36 PM   Top  -  End  -  #75
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That's fairly impressive, haha.
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Old 02-21-2012, 08:24 AM   Top  -  End  -  #76
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I think I may have to make this one into a dungeon...
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Old 02-21-2012, 08:28 AM   Top  -  End  -  #77
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Reminds me of a boss fight in Shadow of the Colossus. Though that area was quite a lot larger in scale.
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Old 02-23-2012, 10:41 PM   Top  -  End  -  #78
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Old 03-04-2012, 07:39 AM   Top  -  End  -  #79
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I don't know how, but the Guild Wars Wiki has tonnes of concept art for the games. And I love it!
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Two islands. Because I'm GM'ing a Wave Crawl. Anyone else with island (or high sea/havens) illustrations?

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This is a really big cave:

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This one is also quite big:

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And this is a really deep natural chasm.
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How has Myst not shown up yet?
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And now for some Uru, because one image dump isn't enough:
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And that's all for today, folks. I may have to hunt down some of the better bits of art I've seen flying around the internet, but who has time for that?

EDIT: Now that I look at this, I realize that I've neglected to actually post an image from the original game. Oh well, more for later.
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RIP
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Hey, I'd play in a campaign with a field of chairs.
The problem with it is, no character has the opportunity to be outstanding n his (or her) field.

What?

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Some real world architecture:

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This last one is kind of large.
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