Fantasy Problems

I've been trying to create maps for my Dungeons and Dragons campaigns with Dungeon Designer 3; I already have scratch-drawn maps of my own but I thought that professional quality cartography might not go amiss. However I just can't concentrate enough to put my mind to the task and get it done.

I don't know what it is that's distracting me, or what has scrambled my brain but I just cannot focus on mapping out my dungeons. The same goes even for writing and, to a lesser extent, drawing. When I try to put pencil to paper I just can't form a visual image of what I want to do. With CC3 and DD3 I know pretty much what I want to create, but there are things holding me back from actually making those things.

There are also small things in the CC3 toolset that irritate me. I don't know exactly how big I want my map to be when I start drawing it but the first thing it asks is for boundaries. If I get it wrong I have to either scale everything on the map or start all over again. Well, that's another thing, perhaps there is a way to change the size of the drawing - but I don't know very much about CAD-style programs and for some reason I can't concentrate for longer than five minutes to read tutorials/the manual and find out how to do exactly what I want.

So I've been playing Dark Messiah again because most of the combat and such is a no-brainer and right now I feel like anything that provokes creative thought from me will cause some sort of mental emergency shut down in my head. I don't know why; it's as if there's something I'm supposed to be doing but I just don't know what it is. Dark Messiah is fun, but even if I was playing entirely new levels I still probably couldn't play it for more than half an hour right now as nothing is really holding my attention very long.

I'd like to go for a walk in Darwell wood again, or somewhere else I haven't visited yet - but of course my bike is still in the shop and the repairs won't be estimated until Tuesday. Urgh. I hate feeling stranded like this and my sudden preoccupied restlessness isn't helping.

Hopefully tomorrow will provide some entertainment as I've managed to get everyone to come to D&D.