Filling the Gaps: following in the footsteps of the Wildwood and the Angle

[k40rne]

Dol Amroth, especially, due to some of these wings, and maybe ease out a bit in a few spots in some of these others too. But generally, no, I would disagree about the rest

I think we are in agreement mostly, except maybe the way the mountains extend too far south, but I can live with that even if they finally clean up Dol Amroth.

- I dislike that word now, I think :P

What, compression?

Bring to caliber of the rest of the word or bring up to modern standards, as people tend to say. Even if not intended, the result implied or de facto what comes out of this screams "make everything the same" to me. If there is anything I would change about Gondor in this regard, would be to have some cities that aren't necessarily just white stone - so something between the first one that we ever see (but that was more of a village treatment) and these others of stone. A mashup treatment. But that's not that important and they're not going to change it now, and overall, these smaller stone cities are actually pretty nice, so like Linhir, Calembel, Arnach etc. Not everything needs to be a walled-in, perfect fortress, huge NO to this. Gondor is not even anywhere near at war in these areas for a chunk of its recent history, why would anything in there be somewhat super fortified or enormous in size. Uniformity or big big size for everything aren't helping, it's just cheapening the world. I like how some of these small-medium sized Gondorian settlement felt, all somehow different, not just same pattern.

I'm literally arguing against uniformity here which Gondor suffers from far too much. We need more character, I'm not saying to change the designs of Linhir, Calembel & Arnach (as if they'd do that anyway). I'm saying the winged tower saturation should be cleaned up here. The ones I mentioned that I really liked are extremely varied & beautiful.

And yes I loved Morlad, it's so well done. The villages are superb, it's the cities & fortresses that need tweaking. Even Dol Amroth has lovely parts to it after all.