However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Its nearest connection is K3, the Servants' Entrance. Note: Not all outdoor areas on the main floor are represented. Hopefully this aids in presenting the shadows of Castle Ravenloft for your players. It's organized by floor and color-coded, and includes page numbers to nearly each room. The Castle Ravenloft Map Flowchart reduces the map into a single page with arrows and lines showing all connections to the various areas of the castle. Take out all the vampires and wights, and you've still got an isometric map that's confusing at best, and unnavigable at worst. The extra detail that an isometric map provides can really sell the setting of a map, but it's also easy to obscure important features.Let's face it: Castle Ravenloft is a labrynthine nightmare to navigate-even for the Dungeon Master. Remember that the primary goal of the map is to show the floorplan and allow for easy use for a GM. Again, I add these details on a separate layer to make it easy to erase mistakes without rubbing out the floor lines.

Fill in the blank space with sketched stone texture, add in illustrated doors, throw in some lines to show the rough stone in natural stone tunnels and give the viewer an idea of just how deep the spiked pit trap is. Here I've added the most detail where the detail doesn't overlap the actual floorplan. Focus on the edges that don't obscure details further away. Find every corner, and draw a vertical line to show wall edges. The great thing about isometric maps are the vertical details you can throw in there. Then you shrink the map vertically by 57.7%.ģ. Make it isometric! Rotate the map 45 degrees. I draw these lines on a separate layer from the grid as it keeps everything organised.Ģ. Place lines for all the elements on the ground - walls, doors, outlines of pit traps. First draw out your floor plan as if it were top down. It's also a style beloved of computer games, most notably the Diablo series.Ĭreating an isometric map is actually pretty easy:ġ.

There are some classic isometric dungeon maps out there, particularly those of castle ravenloft - the original David Sutherland maps inspired the styles of all maps of that castle that have come since.

Castle ravenloft isometric maps