>Been running a campaign for years >Iron age, sailing isn't

No, you are however a lazy DM. No harm done.

>>45392874
No. This is Grade A DMing. Enjoy it.

This is actually really clever m8.

>>45392874
It's what I've been doing for years - not the Orkneys, but the very home province we all live in.

>>45392874
It's lazy, but not bad. One of the best GM I ever had notoriously ripped off his scenarios from films, books and plays, but always picking something obscure, so nobody ever knew what he's ripping off until the end of each game/campaign, where he pointed out the source.

And just out of curiosity - how do you handle the "content" of the continent? I mean if you've just literally increased Orkney in size, then the whole continent has the same geo structure and climate, which is actually SHIT-tier GMing

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>>45392874
Are they Scottish? They might realise eventually.

that's perfectly fine, real life is great for source material

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>>45392925
Mainland is mainland, pretty similar in climate to the UK. Average temperatures, rains a lot, heavily forested and a few swamps. Main exports are furs and crops.

Southern islands are slightly warmer, think Northern Spain and France. Mountainous, where dorfs originate from in the setting. Exports a lot of fish and wine.

Rousay and Shapinsay are colder than the mainland, think Scandinavia. Snows often, but not constantly so life still goes on as normal pretty much. Relatively uninhabited.

The northern islands are all but abandoned. Cold as fuck, where the now extinct elves are from. Tundra climate.

I'm no expert cartographer (That's why I copied Orkney lmao) so I know the climates aren't accurate for the distance between the areas. The players don't seem to mind.

The actual island chain is just tiny part of the world. I really liked the setting of Dishonored in terms of scale, with a massive unexplored content that serves as stereotypical exotic jungle land™.

>>45392982
It's officially shit tier and you should feel ashamed for wasting perfectly good idea on such awful world.

>>45392874
No, though you are lazy.
Well done.

>>45392990
Thanks friend.

My players enjoy it, and that's what counts.

>>45392999
Then I recommend them making an effort to acquire some fucking taste.

This is literally Generic Fantasyland: Orkney Edition

>>45393020
m8 I've literally just told you basic stuff about the climate and a tiny bit of knowledge on the races. What did you expect? Do you want me to have Discworld levels of original climate?

>>45393020
I should also point out that when we started they had never played a tabletop before so they wanted something that was easy to get into.

>>45393029
If you have pre-existing map, it's child's play to fill it on with something interesting for a change. Instead you took real-world map, then applied generic sauce of mediocrity over it and called it a day.
That's shit GMing and you know it.

>>45393020
You hipster cunt.
Suck my knob faggot

>>45393053
>that guy

>>45393020
>>45393053
Shut the fuck up, you self-entitled little shit.

>>45392874

Do you think you're a bad DM for this?

I do not see why you'd be a bad DM for this.

>>45393053
What's the bet this faggot has never played, let alone GM'd, in their shitty little life?

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>>45393053
>Hurr durr I don't like how someone else is having fun

>>45392874
No, although how the hell did they circumnavigate when cultures don't like sailing?

>>45393277
They built a boat with the money they got from rescuing a duchy from cultists and decided to become renowned explorers.

>>45393053
>real-world map
So what?

>generic sauce of mediocrity
What, because he went with a few established archetypes? I'm not even convinced there are any actually good, wholly original ideas left out there. You can just bury your make-believe elitism elbow-deep in your own uptight asshole.

>called it a day
He's been running it for years, you twat.

>>45393277
If the Polynesians were able to cross most of the Pacific Ocean in glorified canoes I don't see how a bunch of murderhobos with money and magic couldn't circumnavigate the globe.

>>45393277
PC's are wonky and tend to go against the grain of their native societies, because it's hella easy to explore a fantastical world by intentionally seeking out its limits, whether geographically or socially and culturally, and the contrasts with the 'real' world we're all familiar with.

>>45393319
They were literally at the end of the last great adventure when they looked out across the ocean after saving the duchy. I asked them what they wanted to do and one guy's character said "I should buy a boat."

And here we are.

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>>45393069
>>45393083
>>45393091
>>45393105
>>45393254
>>45393304
>All this assblast about single anon
>Who still makes a point about sloppy GM
Holy shit, Scottish Patrol, calm your manboobs. Don't you have cattle to rustle or sheep to shag?

>>45393348
Before you go
>>>/o/
>>>/u/
>>>/t/
and never return,
see
>>45393254

>>45393348
It's 6 people's views against one butthurt That Guy who can't handle other people having fun and not DMing his way.
Stop being so salty, kid.

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>>45393385
All I see is six morons falling for bait so blatant it's just amazing, but whatever, what to expect from cattle rustlers

>>45392982
>Tundra Elves

Oh man they better be like eskimos. That's fucking cool.

>>45393385
>I think That Guy means people I don't agree with
Now THAT is a That Guy

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>>45393393
>>45393408
>The samefagging
>This damage control
Stop posting. You're pathetic, mate.

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>>45393053
>>45393348
>>45393393

>>45393421
Literally no one cares about what you have to say. I'm not even using the weird new definition of the world.

This is you versus the sensible part of /tg/, basically everyone else.

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>this whole thread

>>45393442
>This is you versus the sensible part of /tg/, basically everyone else.
Says the one guy whom six others called an idiot.

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Hey, if this technique is good enough for George R. R. Martin, it's good enough for you.

>>45393474
I knew it was the UK reversed, I didn't realise he stuck Ireland onto the bottom as well. Neat.

>>45393548
kek
Mordor confirmed for rightful Ottoman clay

>>45393548
There's usually only ONE of those assholes in map threads.

It's rivers that everyone harps on.

>>45393348
Suck me off

>>45393548
Whoever did this seems like a cunt.
It looks like a cool map.

>>45393548
I wonder if I took a map of europe, rotated it 90 degrees, smoothed some coastlines, removed spain, italy and britain my players would recognise it?

>>45393595
If you do it at a non right angle it'll work.

>>45392874

This was a great idea. Not lazy at all... It was an intelligent use of your limited time and attention.

Very well played. I'm blatantly stealing this idea.

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>>45393471
Funny, because he's not me, the poster from here: >>45392990 and >>45393020

It's just amusing watching you now morons fighting each other when I'm back two hours later. Today's quote for shitstorm reached and it's only 2:16 PM

>>45393443
Thanks, I tried

>>45393474
Well, it is just the War of the Roses in fantasy. York/Stark Lannister/Lancaster, etc.

>>45393471
Oh, and one more thing
>Let's shun him! There are 6 of us!
Reddit much? Especially when it turns out other picked up my mantle

>>45393595
Are they Americans?

>>45393668
>>45393679
see
>>45393431
Go back to 9gag.

>>45393431
Yes, that's precisely why this thread went completely trainwreck and all you shitters do is pretending it didn't affect you a tiny bit. Fucking ebin

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>>45393686
>I must have the last word
Yeah, bub, go on

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>>45392874
I've made maps before by smooshing real islands together.

This one I think was a couple of islands from around the Comoros and Zanzibar area.

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>>45393668
>>45393679
>>45393691
>100% damage control

>>45393698
>Making fun of someone by implying they want to get the last word
>Tries to get the last word themselves
Oh boy. Keep going, kiddo.

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>>45393704
>Still replying to bait
I wonder. If you are above it, why bother? And if you are not, then what are you trying to achieve, really? Win something? With anons on anonymous internet image board?
The sole fact you are still responding is the best prove how you DO care about some pointless bullshit

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>>45393712

>>45392874
Actually that's much better than the usual OC maps or map generators.

Shit i'll use the islands of the Croatian coast line or the islands of the Greek coastline like that from now on.

>>45393715
>Replying to bait
It's so much fun when the idiots fall for low-quality baits.

>>45393720
see
>>45393712

>>45393715
>falling fir bait this hard
lel

>>45393681
nope. Yurofags here.

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What. The. Fuck.

>>45393670
and Stark has hardly any similarities to York and Lannistars hardly any to the Lancasters, and their conflict is very different to the one between the two.

>>45393548
Even the best map used as described would be utter and complete shit.
Let's use the choke-point for example. If there just happens to be strait like that, fine. But when it's described as THE most defining trait of the local geopolitics and literally everything revolves around it - that's bad world design, because a single aspect is pumped up to the roof.
Or the classic "here be X", because they had to be crammed somewhere and usually if the explaination isn't in line with "they are from other dimension/space/teleportation failure", this turns out into utter shit with completely different cultures and/or climates right next to each other, because.

Tl;dr - best map can be fucked up by poor setting design.

>>45393742
Scandinavia would give you away, I fear.

>>45393805
Mmh, just Google it if you want more educated peoples than I to demonstrate the similarities.

>>45393916
I'll just chop the round bit off the back of Finland , turn Denmark into a proper peninsula and smooth the coast of Norway. That should throw them off.