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A personal request to marketplace map tile manufacturers

Above is an example of both what I would like to see a lot more of and a lot less of. First off I love unique themed dungeon tile sets with a large variety of modular rooms that I can just fit together to form whatever dungeon I like. There arent near enough. But for Bahamuts sake please have them actually fit together. This is a super common problem with a lot of sets. The pieces just dont fit. And I feel like I should say more. Just please make them fit each other better and make more. Lots more.
As an addendum to this... less shading.  That is, less shadows from a light source in (for example) the upper right corner of the tile.  The shadows may look nice, but if I want to rotate the tile, suddenly it no longer matches the rest. Still, I (and probably a lot of other people) appreciate all the work that goes into making these resources for us. Keep up the good work.
I've spent a bloody fortune on the great work folks are doing, and I wish I knew anything about creating art for this game system. But the shading....there are a couple artist who I would buy all their packs, but the shadows they use just make it too hard to bother with. I'm always thankful for the guys throwing their art up though. Cheers. 
And here I thought I was the only one who disliked shading because of the limitation it imposes...
I bought a bunch of stuff at first, I found a few good sets like Dungeon Blanks that snap together good or still you what size they snap together. Then have have bought some that look awesome but you couldn't snap a good looking road together for the life of you. I would really love to see even basic sets that snap together easy.
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Andrew C
Marketplace Creator
Torstan, who you will find all over Dunjinii and The Cartographer's Guild, had some really good 6x6sq tiles he made.  They snap together very well generally, unless you want to do trickier things, but then a little time in GIMP (where I build my maps) and I've usually got it looking pretty good. (The dressing objects come from a bunch of places)  This was a crypt location with the 'above ground' part on another image.
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PrincessFairy
Marketplace Creator
I really like your points and suggestions, and yes I am guilty for creating some of the non-conventional sets that are hard to peace together. I assure you that I am trying to get away from that. However, I really like what you are getting at here. The Geomorphic style sets are rather complicated to create, while sometimes you get fairly close to the correct format and get near seamless it is much harder with every piece. The more you work at it the better it gets, and of course as I have started to learn sometimes, if its not made correctly it only goes together one way. I can't mention about any future projects, but I will let you know that I am working towards providing more quality sets.