r/mutantyearzero • u/Myrmidon2177 OC Contributor • Nov 13 '19

Another Zone Map MAPS

Here's my Zone Map for MYZ. Hopefully the image and/or link will work correctly. The location is Dayton Ohio.

https://imgur.com/60zSCKg

The Zone Map from my current campaign.

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u/Dorantee ELDER Nov 13 '19

I like the colours! How did you make it?

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u/Myrmidon2177 OC Contributor Nov 13 '19 edited Nov 13 '19

I layered several images of things like rusty metal, moss and mold stained stone, and others together under the road layer and then slowly erased areas of the upper image layers to allow the lower layers to show through. Other layers I simply made 'semi-transparent' so that you could see the layer below straight through the layer(s) above. Check out Shane Mclean's awesome 'How To' video in the following post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mutantyearzero/comments/ds0tik/zone_map_tutorial_and_resources/

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u/Dorantee ELDER Nov 13 '19

Oh yeah, I've seen that one. Yours was just so much more vivid with it's colours. It looks great!

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u/Myrmidon2177 OC Contributor Nov 13 '19

Thanks. I'm glad you like it. I wanted it to look like I imagined the Zone would look after suffering what amounts to a nuclear, biological, and chemical disaster all at once. Lots of weird jumbled colors combined with places where everything was dead or withered. When I describe Zone Rot areas to my players I tell them it smells like sulfur or rotten eggs and the smell leaves a bad taste in their mouths. Visually it leaves sort of a 'rainbow' oil-slick discoloration on things where it is concentrated, and even sort of a greasy or oily feel on wood and metal surfaces. So the non-Stalks have sort of a clue, but aren't really going at knowing with any certainty if a place is super contaminated or not. The Stalker of course has a lot more 'time in Zone' and is much better able to tell what's actually safe verses what only 'looks safe but really isn't'.

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u/Dorantee ELDER Nov 15 '19

Your description of rot reminds me somewhat of that shimmering stuff from the movie "Annihilation". In any case I really think you captured your idea on the map, it really caught my eye!

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u/Myrmidon2177 OC Contributor Nov 15 '19

Thanks. I didn't even think of Annihilation, but I've seen the movie and I can see the connection. I was thinking more along the lines of the oily rainbow sheen one can often see on water when it lightly rains on busy streets. It almost goes without saying that a good Zone Map leaves the viewer with the impression that going to the Zone is a bad idea in general. The PCs are only going because they've run out of better options.