Map Thread!

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>>51424323
That's a rather, extensive map

Here's one in our DM made for us

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>>51424323
I always liked the sword Coast

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>>51424323
What think?

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>>51424339
I've seen you here before

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>>51424349
>War Torn Bikini Bottom

My sides!

>>51424372
There was so much lore I poured into that map, you have no idea.

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>>51424323
Here's the US 10,000,000 Years In the Future

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>>51424349
>MEXICO

>>51424339
Your GM's spanish I see

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>>51424830
>The face-ass centaur
>the sword wielding dog riding the rabbit
>hay-tail dog wizard
>giant mace creatures
>gains goblin in the ocean
It's beautiful

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Here is my map I am currently working on

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Homebrew

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>>51425013
Medieval snails were BADASS

>>51424349
I'm okay with it.
I mean, seriously, no matter you do it's always gonna be THIS underneath, so why not be honest with yourself and play the real thing?

>>51424830
holy shit, this is bloody awesome!

>>51425049
>>51424387
>>51424339
>>51424323
what tool did you use?

>>51425454
inkarnate

>>51425441
Because the players would appreciate some love towards the presentation. This map just screams laziness to me and makes me want to walk away from the campaign it before the game even started.

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>>51424339
>Corbata
>a fucking city called Corbata

Kek what the fuck.

>>51424482
If he is, he has a weird sense of humor.

>>51424349
The map is shit, but I would love to play in your setting.

>>51425604
meh, I see an expy, it better be called after what it's expying with a few letters changed/added, rather than an attempt at creating disguise. fake originality is worse than tongue-in-cheekness.

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Made this the other day for my new setting

>>51424387
>>51424323
>>51425049
Did you use custom assets for these? I don't think I saw these when I was using Inkarnate

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My political map of 'not europe' for my setting:

>>51424830
I like your use of classic weird races like blemmyes, arimaspi and panoti. Bit disappointed that they share land with so much of the classic guys. Would've not been mad at some goblins and elves here and there, but they completely steal the show from the interesting guys. Would've loved to see some more weird races instead, like the cynophali, the astomi or the sciapods. Some are a bit goofy, but I'm sure you'll be able to make them rad considering you somehow managed to make panoti that are not ridiculous.

Also I love your style. Would play regardless of any complaint.

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>>51425676
Self-consciousness doesn't contradict quality presentation and good taste, as seen here.

>>51425721
I'm the maker of >>51425049 and I didn't use any custom assests. Speaking of assets, where can I find some cool ones?

>>51425721
I think it got updated.

>>51425735
It's not my map, it's from another anon. From what I remember from the notes he posted, blemmyes and panoti are extremely important to the setting, and cynophali and sciapods still exist, but as minor races.

>>51425721
>>51425225
>>51424830

Did you guys draw this or did you some tool?

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>map goes under construction, has to get from one point to another
>more updates begin before the first one is finished
>hasn't left construction for months
>would take about 20 hours of work to make it postable, let alone finished

>>51425781
and don't know about the other guys but I (>>51425721) used http://inkarnate.com/

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Love progresive making this one.

>>51425727
Except for obvious Britain and Russia, this doesn't obviously resemble Europe. Well done.

A lot of white spaces / "terra incognita"s - yes or strongly yes?

>>51425790
You certainly did. I didn't check the updates so I thought you used something to modify an inkarnate map.

>>51425771
I still don't feel satisfied, it makes me think that it invites people to not give the "new" races a chance if it's to be played in a game. But, like I tried to say, it's a minor complaint, the setting looks great. Even without weird races like blemmyes it would have some interesting/funny nations.

>>51425721
shit that is niiice.

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>>51424323
Made this obvious "not middle east" some time ago. The setting has evolved quite a lot since then in my mind, so most of the names and geography got changed, but since inkarnate got updated I can't edit it.

May post it if I beat my laziness and decide to make a new one from scratch.

>>51425898
>God and Magos
damn, that's cool. will you have John Presbyter's kingdom too?

>>51425849
I think you should tell that to the guy in person:

http://irondoors.deviantart.com

>>51425915
The Ice Caesar is an unholy mix of the Russian Zar, the Prester John and Ahriman.

I was thinking about introducing rumours of a more conventional Prester John-like figure in not!India, but it would be a side-note.

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>>51425771
>posting other people's maps

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>>51425894
danke, anon-kun

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>>51425951
>>51424323
>We Share Cool Game Maps we have

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Hello yes judge my completely original and totally not-britain map I'm making for my setting.

I need professional help.

>>51425949
>mix of the Russian Zar, the Prester John and Ahriman
Not gonna lie, not sure how it's supposed to work.

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>>51424830
This is so beautiful

>>51425978
not really talking about the thread topic, it's just rude to save and post other people's maps unless they're completely finished

>>51426035
He posted it on his deviantart, do you think he gives a shit?

>>51425898
>Skanderi
Is it populated by kidney-stealing goblins with a love for bunkers?

>>51425781

I drew mine in Photoshop.

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Made some shit

>>51425727
This is actually really good, however I think that having so many kingdoms dulls down feel. Consider making som of them Grand Duchies or just Duchies.
Also, if you care to, I would like to hear about these realms - because it is a good map.

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Map I've been working on. I have slowly been getting more done but it's frustrating seeing the previous detail become faded constantly

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I've been using Inkarnate a bunch for the campaign I'm working on, gonna dump the three maps I made so far.

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>>51426341

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>>51426366

And then Inkarnate had to go ahead and completely switch to all new map assets so now my maps don't match.

OH WELL.

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just made this with inkarnate, what do you think?

>>51426012
To make not!christianity more interesting and less recognizable, I made it literal that we christians worship an undead dude. So everything that is related to the religion is gonna be pretty grim. Fits well with the theme of the Ahriman (not to mention that christianity was the main rival of zoroastrianism for a bunch of centuries).

I'm a bit of a slavboo so there's no bias against the russians at all, but in a setting where the protagonists are based in middle eastern empires the Russian Empire is the perfect threatening dark power. They're the main colonial power in the area, specially in persia and central asia. Also remember that from the perspective of the setting Russians come from the northern steppe, not the west, the same direction where Ahriman and Genghis Khan (often identified with Prester John) come from.

>>51426095
Not really my problem that albos got a cool version of the name Alexander. Skanderbeg is not famous at all outside of his region, anyways.

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>>51424349
Second

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might as well post this outline, going to be a few years before I finish this though

Areas in red circles haven't been touched in a long time, they're extremely, extremely, extremely unfinished, the top one will be completely remade

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I posted it again

>>51426434
that's based, in my setting my religion is based on not!zoroastrianism mixed with not!catholicism as well

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Made this for a homebrew Symbaroum setting, probably going to redo it properly in Photoshop at some point.

>>51426443
I know that you probably use photoshop (or gimp) but what I don't get is how you can get the colours so crisp and blend in with eachother.

>>51426453
I use more of a bizarro not!islam where Allah and Muhammad are the same for my main religion, although it will probably hard to see it as that for someone without some knowledge of the religion. I use zoroastrianism more to define 'how the world is' rather than 'what people believe'.

I don't discard having a small community of followers of 'old religions' though. But that belongs to future steps of worldbuilding.

>>51426710
I'm using paintnet, I take two relatively similar colors (for example, a mild brown and a mild green), take one with the dropper tool and reduce its opacity/transparency to 30-60%, then mix that with the second color to get something in between. Often I make multiple layers of these to get smooth transitions without having actual antialiasing, this makes it much easier to do huge edits without redoing the coloring each time.

>>51426452
Gosh that is a beautiful map.
Very obviously fantastical but still good.

It also pisses me off to no end because you have done it all by hand.

>>51426736
>paintnet
wow thats a blast to the past.

But thanks, I'll shamelessly rip off your maps someday.

>>51426443
>low zhur
>high zhur isn't at the top of the continent

>>51426737
Thanks, also it pisses me off too because by the time I get back to working on it, I'll draw a mountain range or whatever in a slightly different style to what I used to do, and I can just barely tell.

But I felt the need to do it all by hand anyway because muh artism

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God, main looks garbage in comparison to all of these

Peep the shamelessly stolen names

>>51426858
You can easily do this one with inkarnate.

>>51426858
Shit son, at least you did it by hand, thats rare.

Most of these probably copy and paste.

>>51426425
I would consider reducing the amount of towns and villages, since its pretty packed for the scale you are going for.

I would remove the hills that you have lined that one mountain range with, it looks a little weird.

coast to coast rivers should also be avoided, rather make it two separate rivers coming from the mountains going to each their separate shore.

Lastly i would use the remove sculpt tool at the smallest size and cut slightly around the water edges to give it a more natural formation to it.

slightly offtopic, but is there any kind of village/town name generator?

>>51426598
Did ya use the tool in the OP for this?

>>51426907
If you're going for stuff like Goldridge, Fangmoor, Bluetower, a random generator is a very bad idea.

If you want non-english names, fantasynamegenerator website has tons of things you can use, I'd recommend twisting and modifying the names that come out.

>>51426930
Yeah, Inkarnate. It got an update a few days ago which removed/replaced all the old assets. The new version produces results such as >>51425721 which tend to be better for regional maps but make for terrible world maps.

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Map I'm using currently for their starting area.

>>51426937
Goldridges and stuff I can make up myself, but more than one or two they sound horribly.
I want vaguely english-sounding stuff, like Bree or Tottenham. Things that mean nothing (at least in modern times), but are unmistakably town names.

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>>51426955
And the world map.

>>51426380
>>51426425
Love these isometric maps, like Runewars and Mage Knight.

>>51424339
>Daedric shrine
I assume this is an elder scrolls campaign? If so, what province is this region supposed to be a part of?

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It updated before I could translate it from Icelandic so basically:
Krákueyja = Crow Island
Goggurinn = The Beak
Norðurhöfn = Northport
Herbúðir Manna = The Kingdom's War Camp
Græna Hafið = The Green Ocean
Trévirkið = The Wooden Fortress
Vængjaborg = City of Wings
Bjargborgir = Cliff Cities(wow these 2 don't work in english)
Hvíta Auðnin = The White Void
Lífsvellir = Fields of life
Svefnmýri = Sleepmarsh
Sunnanhöfn = Southport
Frjálsu Borgirnar = The Free Cities
Herbúðir Orka = Orcish Warcamp
Dauðaslétturnar = The Death Plains

>>51425991
Looks fine to me, could use some more stuff inland.

>>51426453
so you mean Catharism
which btw is fucking HERESY. cya @ the inquisition tribunal

>>51424830
You can feel how much love went into this one.

>>51426858
I like the low long-spanning mountain range near ofrana, but you've gotta fix the weird sideways range by caloph

>>51426452
Please don't abandon your project.

>>51426320
Looks good. Lots of hard work.

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>>51425991
Wow that took way to long just to find this, save your maps separately kids. I'm also asking for tips since its my first large map for my setting, anything I should add, anything I should change?

>>51427157
Well the idea is that its just a blasted wasteland and I figured the dune like hills would be enough.

Also a small game for you all, try to guess which of these formless blobs is currently in or were recently reformed trough revolution.

So Inkarnate updated and completely gutted its assets. Are there any good places to get more?

>>51428656
I would appreciate ugly drawn landmarks more than pretty downloaded pixel art.

>>51428656
this
>>51428811

There are a bunch of resources and tutorials that are just photoshop filters and then a little legwork with mountain ranges or whatever, but even just doing upside down V's would look better than most of this copy-paste style-devoid bum

Maybe its just me, but even on a map where someone really seems to know how to use inkarnate and make it look good, I cant stand how 99% of all of the towns are the same three little buildings, and the map is dotted with a hundred of the same little house silhouette, and half of the trees are all the same little doodle.

Even if you dont have a tablet you can hand draw a few different mountains and create stamps for all of them so you can make a dickload of different little doodles, then stamp them apart from eachother so it doesn't look as copy paste as the four different mountains you get with inkarnate.
Then do dots or something for insignifigant towns, a little rook for forts, then hand draw silhouettes that are styled after the architecture you have in mind for the city instead of just >this sticker has a shitload of houses so I'll use it for literally every big city on this map

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first map i made a week ago. the coastlines are too round and i should have added 1 or 2 more villages / made some of them bigger because of trade routes and shit but whatever

>>51429165
looks like an actual cheap hand drawn map you'd get from some loser shopkeep who's never traveled further than the end of his own nose though, which is charming

>>51429206
which was exactly what I was going for, nice. Someday, when I get off my lazy ass I'll write a campaign for that country

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Continent map for the setting I've been using for two years. I need to make a digital version, the hand drawn map feels unprofessional

>>51429903
No offence, but this is Europe. The Dwarfen Kingdoms is just flat out Russia, you got the Mediterranean sea right beneath it, and Vandt City States is the UK, complete with the English Channel. Judging by the "land of the Inquisition" right next to Spain there, that might have been intentional, so I don't know. Just think it's a bit too on the nose.

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>>51429903
lmao this looks 1:1 like europe

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>>51425951
>>51426035
Agreed

>>51426077
It was only only deviant art as a means of uploading to reddit to figure out how I can get rid of terrain degradation.

Which I succeeded in getting the guy who owns inkarnate to do for me in the end for the finished project.

>>51430136
It's intentional to a degree. There's a decent amount of original concept countries, especially in the east, but I was going for a not!Europe look when drawing it. Since I'm making a digital version soon is there anything you would say I should change to make it a little less oblivious?

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>>51430290
The map of this posts inserts into this little spot here on this map.

>>51430475
Maybe your grandchildren will actually see this setting completed.

>>51430544
>Maybe your grandchildren will actually see this setting completed.
Very true, especially since I won't move onto another country until I've finished writing up most of this ones history and city/town/village/location knowledge.

Might be able to finish a fucking continent by the time I die.

>>51430383
Not really, just keep in mind that its abig landmass with a massive country in the north-east, an ocean in the south splitting it, whose opening is tiny gap. I guess, if you don't want it to be too obvious, change the general shape in some way, or orient it somehow different? I don't know, not an expert.

Also, just noticed that your UK actually has a Kent, so there's that.

Anyone have any advice on coming up with names for various cities, bodies of water, ect?

It's always the part I have the most trouble with.

>>51430822
If you want names that mean something, no advice.
If you want fantastic sounding names, random generate them.

>>51430822
I'd suggest that you use a random name generator in conjunction with looking at names that look kinda nice but aren't quite there. Then change them up slightly, or take the first syllable or the last and stick a new one in there to make it better.

>>51430822
>Anyone have any advice on coming up with names for various cities, bodies of water, ect?
I try to actually figure out the history of the name first, much like it happens in real world. First thing I wonder is if I want it to be based in understandable language (english or your native), or if you want to invent a whole fictional world. In general, if possible, I prefer using entirely made up words as little as possible, as they almost always end up sounding B'grade and distracting, not to mention they are frequently difficult to remember and end up surprisingly indistinct.

Part of that is asking myself what am I (the author) trying to convey through the name. After all, names are like any other part of your fiction, just another channel to communicate. The most common answer is: I'm trying to communicate (some aspects of) the place's history and cultural significance. Just like in real world, names emerge organically, through some form of local or global history and necessity. They embody elements of pragmatical necessity, local distinctive features, but also coincidence, or even perhaps personality of the historical figures who established them. Naming traditions can mirror local customs, religion, aesthetical preferences.
(cont, 1/2)

>>51430475
Such a terrible world map for all that beautiful work on the zoomed in part

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>>51431973
Well that is just the outline of the world map and the different countries. Not a finished project.

>>51425655
>That file name

You got me there kek

>>51425655
Ha! , never noticed that it's Spanish for Tie.
coincidentally that's the city we are currently in since our last session

>>51430597
Just end up posting it here, we'll Play it in honor of your sacrifice

>>51432074
I meant design wise - the zoomed in part has a ton of creativity, but overall one super long land mass to the left, with two big blocky chunks across the ocean? Why

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>>51425743
kind of remind me of the warhammer fantasy map
>here be mummies
>arabian nights
>here be ninja
>french poncy knights
>not!atlantis/albion of the shiny elves
etc etc

>>51432187
It's okay as long as your players don't know the meaning. It's a good word that sounds very spanish. Because you're pronouncing it well, right?

https://es.forvo.com/search/corbata/es/

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>>51432279
Generic cataclysm type thing split the continents apart from the 'First Fall'.


>>51432217
I'm pretty sure everybody currently here would be dead by that time. But I'm sure I can pass it on to someone.

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>>51425898
>Pirate Theocracy
Piqued my interest desu

>>51432476
That's the point.

>>51432279
Actually I see what you mean now.

Maybe I should go and make a proper world like the one we actually live in.

But that'd take a lot more effort then just splitting one landmass into three.

>>51432563
Well it's basically what the name says. Maritime thalassocracy based around trade and piracy, but ruled by priests and fundies from the inland mountains of the main island who easily conquered the capital in a moment of weakness. So now you got fundie pirates.

It helps that they don't share religion with any of their neighbours, which justifies assaults on any stranger ship be it foe or not.

>>51425743
Man that actually looks like a really fun setting

>>51432878
Then go and play Pathfinder, because it's basically Golarion.

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>>51424349
>L-shape
>Lou'ez'anna

>>51424323
How in the fuck did you get the maps to line up so well. I've tried making one big map over multiple Inkarnate maps, but they never fit together.

>>51432540
Left-continent should see a doctor for erections lasting longer than four hours.

Are there any of these programs that can help construct a city? I've got an idea for a campaign centered entirely around a city-state that'd only be run until about fifth level or so and I need to start crafting up the resources.

>>51424323
>http://inkarnate.com/
So how do you make coastlines that don't look like crap?

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A map I made for my brother's setting about a year ago. Only thing I remember about the setting really is that Red and Orange used to be a single nation and Blue and Green are at war.

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>>51433705
This. I can make great maps with photoshop but I can't manage a good coastline in inkarnate

>>51431173
(sorry for the delay, got distracted)
When it seems necessary (either because I have too high density of "english" based terms in one region, or when I want to communicate that the particular region has been named by particularly strange culture), I "invent" new words by looking into particular real-world inspirations for the culture that proposed that name. I look into real-world languages that I can associate with that culture (like my nomadic tribes being inspired by mongolians, so I'll look into mongolian, or my empire inspired by greco-indian nations, so I look into sanskrt...) Then I'd go through their dictionaries (google translate can do), looking for words that seem appropriate (for a city build on a major rocky formation, I looked up a word for "tooth", for an instance). It usually takes several tries to find a word that sounds "right". Then I just do some small adjustments to the spelling so that it's not TOO immediately identifiable, and I get my name.

>>51433733
What's your process for getting mountains like that?

>>51424387
>Ohio is a blighted wasteland

Are you sure that's not now?

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>>51433784
Oh god, I always get asked this. I really need to make a tutorial.

I use photoshop. The gist of it comes down to this: I use actual heightmaps on a greyscale layer, set up that layer as it's own color channel and use Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and apply the new color channel I created as the texture.

This gives me realistic looking shading that I can use as a base for the landshape.

I've also been playing with creating non-shaded relief maps, which I like better for what I'm trying to do.

I had a series of threads a while back where I asked for people to submit their maps to me and I'd make them a non-shaded relief map.

The attached image is one of those maps.

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Is there any option to make a higher resolution map? It's not so good for making big territories. Otherwise 10/10, would recommend to my friends.

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>>51433913
>Those coastlines and islets
How!? I keep trying but all I get is crappy looking obvious lines. It's making me stick to landlocked ideas.

>>51433705
>>51433733

You're supposed to make shit coastlines first and then "carve them" with the eraser to make them pretty.

>>51433984
I'm a lazy drawfag, anon, so the shape of a coastline isn't an issue for me. (In fact I'm so lazy my team only had some shitty sketches by now.) Isles were made by drawing a blob of land and erasing it with a tiny brush until I was satisfied with the result.
Also magnifying glass is really useful.

>>51424323

I didn't know inkarnate let you make maps that tall, did you just make it really large and crop the image?

>>51433892
Oh I've actually seen those threads, although it's been awhile.

What's the source of your heightmaps then? Are you making those manually somehow?

I'd love a tutorial pretty please

>>51434093
Those are 3 maps made separately and then merged together, I suppose.

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>>51433984

Here's something that might help.

I'll post more...

>>51426991
what did you use to make this?

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>>51434121

Ok, that's what I figured. It looks pretty great.

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Do people want to see shit like this? I have more.

>>51433984
>How!?
There is only one answer: observation. Look at enough real-world maps. Then keep working until you are satisfied. Patience when looking at real world: and patience when you are sculpting. There is nothing more to it.

>>51434182
Yes, go on.

Also, a lagoon is just a small lake.

>>51434182
That's informative, anon, please continue.

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>>51434182

Has anyone read this book? I met the artist, he was at gencon and was super nice. Apparently he did all the maps for the D&D horde of the dragon queen stuff. The book is legitimately great and also covers heraldry and stuff. He spends a few pages talking about materials and pencils etc so even if you're totally new to art you can probably use this book to create a decent map.

>>51434215
>>51434219

I shall continue then, glad it's useful. I've got a whole folder of this crap.

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>>51434242

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>>51434249

>>51434215
>Also, a lagoon is just a small lake.
I was wrong, In my lenguage its diferent.

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>>51434256

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>>51434111
>>51434134
That tutorial is fantastic. My method is pretty different but that tutorial would probably give you the same result with less work.

Replace the steps where you paint in mountains with actual heightmaps and you'd end up with a result just like mine.

I get my heightmaps from a few different places. World machine is my favorite, you can create some really cool landmasses, export the heightmaps and work with them that way.

I have used actual SRTM data in the past but it's more work than it's worth.

Google images is also great for finding heightmaps.

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>>51434269

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>>51434281

>>51424323
>http://inkarnate.com/
So on the main site it talks about tropical islands, volcanoes, adding your own assets and different brushes etc.
Where is all of that?

>>51434242
That's the first time I hear about this book, but I'm legitimately curious about it now.

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>>51434312

It's really good, I actually spent money on it.

>>51434304

I think they have some shit otw, there was a blog post about it a month ago.

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>>51434332

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>>51434343

Some of these have some good tips for beginners.

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>>51434359

>>51434312
>>51434242
I've thumbed through this book before. It's definitely nice. You can probably find a lot of the information online but the way the material is presented in the book is pretty useful.

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>>51434377

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>>51434382

>>51434332
>>51434378
Now I'm considering it, too.
Oh, I forgot I'm poor and I won't even get it easily in my country. One can dream...

>>51425441
sad that you unironically believe this about original settings. means you've been exposed to nothing but crap.

>>51425898
>pirate theocracy
okay

>>51434430

Ah sorry, maybe you can find the author's website and ask about buying it directly somehow.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzS5fqP5rugESzk0T0tBUEdsVHM

This is a .rar of all my map resources like fonts, textures, brushes, etc. Obviously helpful if you have photoshop. I may have missed some but it's a bunch of stuff.

>>51434560
Aww man, I didn't mean to sound cynical. Anyway, big thanks for resources, mate. It will be useful.

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>>51434613

It's fine, maybe he'll release a pdf (though he'd be a fool to do so haha)
This text blurb has a followup example to make sense of it, ill post it next..

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>>51434636

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>>51434645

This one is good too

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>>51434653

>>51434636
>>51434645
>>51434653
>>51434661
That looks so neat. Thank you, anon.

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>>51434661

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzS5fqP5rugEWVdqcWM0MWFYeUE

Oh, here's more map making stuff. This is like a series of little sketchie bits that can be put together to become a map, which might be cool. I think I'm out of map making pics and stuff so I'll post.. a map!

My DM made a little inkarnate map and it serves its purpose but I felt like remaking it in photoshop to fix it up a little. It's nothing special but I kind of like it. For some reason the world feels reeeeaallly small, and I was hoping to fix that... but it still feels that way. I think it's just a small scale world. Like it takes us 2 days to get anywhere. Still, the game is fun.

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>>51434714

Oh, this is an isometric grid in case anyone wants to make a fancy dungeon map.

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who /handdrawn/ here

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>>51434742

I once drew up a map of the Mystery Lake level in The Long Dark. You explore a lot and it helped to get my bearings and I didn't want to just google one and cheat. I explored a bit and got it more accurate as I went along, and this is the 'final' one where I was pretty sure of it and made it larger. I think it turned out ok though I could probably redraw it better.

But that's the only map I've ever drawn now that I think about it.

Spoilered in case anyone is playing the game.

>>51434742

Oh and your map is excellent, btw! I really like the coasts.

>>51434862
>The Long Dark
More like The Muh Dick

>>51435373

Yes......

So what you're saying is your dick is suffering from hunger and exposure?

>>51434862
That's a pretty cool map guy. I used to do the same thing for older video games that either had no map or were very laggy with the map itself. Wish I still had my Morrowind map I drew.

>>51424323
>Kravenloft
Does the vampire Duke Kstrahd live there?

>>51424387
Geology doesn't work this way at all. But its still cool.

>>51435472
Come on anon. Even GRRM put in more work when he plagiarized real world geography.

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>>51435472
Looks familiar, but I can't quite place it though...

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Wow, you guys have stepped up your game a lot since I last posted on here

Unfortunately, my computer has started slowing down on my considerably, so opening my map files in photoshop has become a non-option

>>51435778

What are the lines? Ley Lines or something?

Looks neat.

>>51435796

They're Rhumb Lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_line

>>51425781
A computer

>>51424830
I want to play this in CK2.

>>51434359
>>51434242
>>51434393
>>51434377

As a beginner, it's super helpful to me to see these kinds of posts that focus on the geographic, biomes, weather, etc. stuff rather than the artistic side. Does anyone have more resources like that?

>>51426035
I don't think that's a real rule. I think you made that up.

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Not World Map, but I made this mansion layout for an intro mission for some noobies.

Trying to improve my skill at asymmetrical map design and free hand, but for now Im stuck at this.

>>51426737
>not making your map by hand
pleb

>>51426786
Before modern colonialism, "low" and "high" generally referred to things that were lower or higher, not things that were more southern or northern. See for example upper and lower lorraine.

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>>51435898

Yea the geographic stuff seems to be key. A true artist can make a horrible map with bad rivers etc, and a scribble on notepaper can look a lot better with good geography and an interesting design.

Luckily inkarnate helps good designers with fewer skills make good looking maps.

Ummm here's another I didn't post before. I might have a few more, let me keep looking. Not sure how geographical it is, but it's really important to get things right initially before you go ham on details I guess.

>>51427133
>using your native language for fantasy toponyms
First time I've seen a nordic person do this.

>>51435847
Actually, fantasy CK is generally an awesome idea.

>>51436022
Postapocalyptic CK2 is even better. Elder Kings and Game of Thrones are the top of the line fantasy mods, but they're awkward and overburdened mechanically, and a lot of the richness of the setting just doesn't come through. After the End does a way better job of conveying its flavor, even though there's a lot of minor religions still in need of more content.

>>51436093
I unfortunately not really can't stand post-apoc

>>51436127
If you like fantasy though, you might like this anyway. It's significantly post, more Canticle for Leibowitz than Mad Max. The apocalypse is mostly background fluff mixed with an excuse to have feudal kingdoms in North America.

>>51432524
Ha, yeah we are

>>51424339
>>51424482
>Valencia
>Seville

You know, it triggers me a little that my two favourite places in Spain are positioned so on this map. Sweet references tho.

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>>51424323

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>>51424323
>Inkarnate
Was this map made in the new Inkarnate beta?

>>51426939
Well it's still in Beta. Supposedly it should be possible in the final product to switch between map styles.

>>51434141
Dwarf Fortress, lol
I just had it make a bunch of random worlds, and exported as .bmp

>>51425727
if you flip the map left to right it will look much better; right now it looks too close to europe

>>51435952
nice! do you have an upper floor?

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I'm looking forward to remaking this in Inkarnate. Maybe tomorrow night.

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And this too. I already have a color version that I converted into photoshop but I want to see how it turns out in their new artstyle.

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>>51437183

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Someday I will actually put down geography on this monstrosity.

>>51424830
Is that the Glagolitic alphabet the words at the top are written in?

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Found an old L5R map psd from back when Inkarnate was not in an open beta. The Toboshi Province was essentially a wasteland savannah type area during the Age of Famine, bordering the Scorpion Clan territories to the south. It eventually got fractured into a bunch of ronin fiefs when my players turned shit all samurai Mad Max.

They had no tokens but a generic city circle back then, so I photoshopped my way to a punchline.

>>51424830
>the different peoples do their borders differently

I love you

>>51433732
Why is your brother's setting a game of Catan?

>>51437103
Why the hell would an underground city have any need for peaked roofs. There is no precipitation whatsoever so it's just a waste of valuable construction materials and less valuable slave labour.

>>51438171
over time, the dripping of water from the roofs will build stalagmite fences around the houses. white pickets aren't easy to come by undreground.

>>51438254
>drow
>farsighted

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>>51424349
>Cloud City of Naw'Lins

Holy Shit that just writes itself.

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Map I made for /tg/ freeform RP group a year or so ago. For the life of me, I can't manage to replicate that style.

Feel free to use it, I guess?

>>51424349
what is that red triangle in dark woods?

Does anyone know of any good icons that can be used as realmgates from AoS in inkarnate? I am making a campaign map at the moment and it would be cool to have some good icons for them.

>>51435719
I think it's a map of France

>>51429165
>>51434742
well the aged paper look is obviously photoshop but the rest is handdrawn

>>51434742
we out here
>>51426452

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Updated my map with the the new stuff that Inkarnate added. This first one is the old one

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>>51442140
And this is the new and improved map. I even added some new stuff to it.

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>>51424323
Hey, anyone got any tips on how to (hand)draw Amazon Type thick forests?

Loving this thread btw

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>>51442420
I'm not an expert, but I made a tutorial for you.

>>51442640
Thanks, that's simple and concise.

Would you reccomend I stick to this scheme for larger landmasses or should I split it into multiple forest "clouds"?

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>>51442420
my method

>>51442683
for an amazon jungle do it so it touches the rivers and actually creates their borders, like the negative space is river so you can imagine the jungle hanging over the banks and shit

then for when it nears a coastline have it stop abrubptly to turn into a sandy beach, or if it turns into a marsh or just back into regular forest it should just sort of peter out and break up as you mix whatever decals you use for marshland or grassy fields with little jungle clouds like you said.

>>51442683
Depends on thickness of the forest. If you want to indicate that in this forest are some paths or hills or whatever, I would recommend multiple clouds. If the forest is really dense and hard to get through, I would use a single cloud.

>>51442640
This reeks of delusion.

>>51442711
to clarify the first line I meant no clouds at all, apart from a few clearings and valleys, but they should be holes in the overall cloud shape, it should still be one big blob divided by rivers only.

in my opinion, at least, but I have a huge boner for impossibly thick jungles that swallow people and civilizations

>>51440642
>Iverian Peninsula

Fucking seriously, mate?

>>51442640
>>51442683
>>51442711
>>51442727
These are great.

I'm working on a Darwinistic Nightmare Island (aka Heavily Forested Australia where everything is constantly evolving to kill you more efficiently) and am looking to make the fauna get thicker and more Amazon like the further inwards you get (civilization, or whatever is left of it, on the outskirts, savegary and cannibal tribes /Lizard people inside).

That is, until you reach the Mountain towards the middle of the Island,sourrounded by a hilly area that acts as the hunting grounds for the Wyverns that roost on top of it.

With this info, what river system would you reccomend?

>>51438171
I always figured it was a combination of the caves being so large and humid that there was the occasional bit of rain, and a throwback to their time on the surface for 'tradition'.

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>>51442734
Why? Isn't this whole fantasy thing about being a little bit delusional?

>>51442152
Lookin good, better than my attempts.

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Question, when you guys make your maps do you tend to make the map first and then plan out things that can happen in each of the marked locations, or do you plan out a whole bunch of encounters and role-playing opportunities and then build the map around it?

Right now I'm doing the second approach and while it means that every marked location will have something for the players to do there guaranteed, it does make my maps look a little sparse.

Pic unrelated

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>>51442770
make the mountain be a circular mountain range with a valley inside of the circle that is literally just a titanic lake, slowly trickling out by way of a thousand waterfalls of pristine unadulterated beauty, crashing into the rocks below amidst a sea of teeth and survival instincts and flowing into rivers winding away from the center of the island

but I'm a sucker for rule of cool geography

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>>51442839
I knew first what locations I want to make. Main location, some cold places, some jungles, some deserts, mountains for dwarves, forests for elves. Basic stuff actually, typical cliches with untypical elements, as the team I'm playing with right now is pretty new to RPGs. I had to take into consideration the description of places from the history of characters my players made (cities, villages etc.), then I had to think about how easy/hard to get to each of this places should be. Also the history of the world I prepared was a big influence.
This picture is the close-up of the main location from >>51433913 I'm working on right now.

>>51442839
I make the world first and then plan things that can happen, but that's because I worldbuild for fun not for DMing.

I'm flexible tho. If I need a city here for my DMing and there wasn't one in my first map, now there's one.

>>51442850
That's a magnificcent idea.

At the same time there's currently an ancient shrine of a long dead civilization resting beneath the mountain, waiting for the players to awaken the skeletal guardian remains from their slumber.

I dig the pristine water source and may build it into the mountain, but the inland sea might be too difficult to work into.

>>51443070
when that happens have them uproot the lake above them, cascading water down through the hollow mountain pooling in the bottom, stopping the waterfalls immediately

so your party will have literally dehydrated a whole jungle by awakening these dudes, and then if they wipe out the whole civilization eventually as nature deals with this change, the inner mountain area can be a dank fucked up mirror to the outside jungle with like, big monster spiders and basically its all just this scene from king kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTWYQhTT388

and the jungle will starve and turn into like, a huge dead jungle swamp some shit

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>>51443103
I think I'm convinced.

Thanks friend.

>>51443129
np, I just like helping

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>>51424323
Setting I am working on.
Plz critique.

>>51443724
Looks really neat! Reminds me a little bit WoW. I'm intrigued about all those nations, all this stuff to discover... I'm jealous of your players.
I guess Chingoku is exotic China, Sutar is Arabian-like country, Kongoku and Niroku are Korean and Japanese, and Nordis is, well, Nordic one, but rest? Avalon is the "good guys" perhaps.
Only islands looks a little bit off - most of them looks like circles. And Straya reminds me of Australia, but I suppose it's on purpose. I like how Kush, Avalon, Niroku and Mikken looks like.
Please tell me more about this world, 9/10, would explore.

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>>51443724
>Straya
>Literally Australia

>>51443724
That's not much of a setting mate, that's just a map. As a map it's alright.

>>51443724
Chingoku - China
Kongoku - Korea
Niroku - Nippon

Racism or am I reading too much into things?

>>51437914
Huh, I never thought about it but I was playing a lot of Catan at the time I made the map

>>51440642
Praise the Fire Serpent.

>>51443921
1/2

Its a feudal setting, in their own 13th century. Large kingdoms rule the landscape, and besides warring lordships and counties, the world is largely at peace.

The Continent of Estheria is a spectrum of European countries in the 13th century. Nordis and Falsen to the North, heavy Scandinavian influence. Arenhigh, and Rhen mountainous Germanic lands that are similar to Germany and Switzerland. Davros is based largely on Irish and Scottish folk lore, a misty foggy land of rolling hills and beautiful countryside. Avalon is the largest kingdom on the continent and is held by elves. It is a huge metropolitan area and the major seaport of the region. Kaspar and Gessin embody eastern Europe and the Slavic tradition. Mikken is a Grecko-Roman mediterranian nation and the primary culture exchange between Estheria and Kaladan.

>>51444238
>>51443921
>>51444034
2/2
Kaladan is a dry and arid continent that spans African style cultures and nations. In Kush, you find dense jungles and warring bush tribes of Orcs and Dragonborn. Sutar is a vast, unending desert with scattered oasis. Sahil, a savanna that serves as the home of many brutal and ruthless pirates. Letho is the cradle of life, the oldest civilizations are found here. Medin is the cradle of knowledge, and is based on ancient Arabic cultures, they are the pinnacle of mathematics and engineering, but an extremist religious movement of Drow seek to take power. Luxe is the cradle of Empires, with the world's oldest Empire, which once ruled the entire continent. It has a heavy Egyptian influence. The main seaport of the eastern lands, and the only land route to Xin Shou.

Xin Shou is a mysterious eastern land. Vishtar is a large country based on India, with lush rain forest, and many ancient temples buried in the trees. Nakala is a nation of barbarians and pirates, and is walled off from Chingoku. Chingoku is a strict and logical society of High Elves who value peace, logic, and zen above all else. They have also had black powder bombs and advanced engineering technology that they guard jealously. Niroku is the ancient enemy of Chingoku, an island based nation of High Elves that value valor, honor, and family above all else, they often raid seashore cities of Chingoku. Kongoku is the northernmost civilization of High Elves, and mostly isolate themselves from their Chingoku and Niroku brothers.

the world in general has been in contact for hundreds of years. All races are dispersed throughout the world, and thought racism is alive and well, society has become a bit of a melting pot, which brings with it its own issues and its own challenges.

The newly discovered lands of Straya and Lehua hint at a larger world out there to be discovered, and an ever expanding universe of people and races to meet and adventures to have.

>>51444238
>>51444271
That's pretty cool. I think you forgot to say something about Cenka, and I wonder what's the difference between Nodis and Falsen, also Kaspar and Gessin. I guess that Gessin is more like Russia and/or East Europe, and Kaspar is rather a Central Europe.
What about Balkans? What is the most Persian-like country? Is Nakala inspired by Mongol Empire? I would gladly hear about Lehua Islands, too.

>>51444238
>Switzerland mentioned
Time to celebrate

>>51444367
Haha. Yes, Cenka is a foil to Avalon, both are very high fantasy feudal British kingdoms fighting for the lower peninsula of Avalon Bay, and sea access to Luxe and the east at large.

the Lehua Islands are an isolated chain of volcanic tropical islands located in the Lunaris ocean inhabited by strange seafaring elves, and colorful aromatic humanoid plants. They are influenced by Hawaiian culture and folk lore. They tell tales of even more foreign and wild lands far to the east, which are largely dismissed as rumors and myths. This is part of how I want to expand this setting. After a few campaigns here, I am going to skip to colonial era Cenka setting sail to the west to try to find a sea passage to Vishtar and Luxe without having to conquer Avalon, and discovering by accident the Americas.

Straya is a penal colony for Avalon. It began 100 years ago, and has since turned into a brave and bustling outback frontier society.

>>51444367
>>51444463
Also, the most Persian like country would be Letho. Its that sort of mid-east cradle of humanity culture. More like Sumer/Iraq but yes.

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This is an inkarnate redo of a sketch for my Heartbreaker homebrew I'm working on. Despite looking a bit like a giant T-rex silhouette and there not being any cities on it or larger details, how does it look?

>>51444486
Looks better flipped vertically

>>51444486
like a giant T-rex silhouette

>>51444463
>>51444481
Aw yiss, Hawaiian folk lore is so cool.
I thought Medin would be Persian. If Letho is a cradle of life, it should be Sumer af.

>>51444503
oh my god you're a genius. It turns out that inkarnate didn't save it in an editable format (I thought it did?) so I'm currently redrawing it to look a bit less Dinosaury.

The basic concept behind the world is that it's a big battleground for the Elemental planes, they scrap it out over this continent and leave it utterly barren and lifeless, bits are flooded, mountains and volcanos have risen up everywhere. Then one-day some Gods show up in a pseudo-spaceship full of Mortals. The gods quickly begin building fortifications with magics the Elementals can't understand and towns and cities being to spring up about this spaceship inside a force-field. The half of the map that's green and full of life is where the Gods dwell, north of the mountains are the Elements who have struck a temporary truce to fight this common foe.

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I finished the simplified map of the Ligenborg Kingdom and surrounding lands. It's the world my players know about. What do you think about it? Did I manage to place the islands close enough to the previous one?
(reference >>51433913)

>>51444549
Medin is more like Arabia. So, that whole area is sort of "Persian" in a word.

>>51444572
Unless you expect the players to go sea-faring the proximity of the islands shouldn't matter too much. The map is great though, looks very cozy.

>>51425898
I've been trying to remake this, but I only achieved great frustration.

Any ideas to make it look less obviously like the middle-east/greater Iran? Bonus points if it doesn't include flip-overs.

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>>51444717
Thank you, that's nice to hear.
In fact one of my players made a character that was trained by retired ex-pirate, that hides on marshes. He doesn't know his master was once a great admiral, a legend that went on a dark path. He was teaching him about survival, cartography and stuff like that and told him many stories about his life as a pirate, but even more left untold.
The other said his parents moved to small dock town shortly before he was born, so he doesn't know his mother was a princess of a small island (the C shape island with a dot inside) and they had to run away because it was a forbidden love. What makes him a prince of this tiny kingdom.
So yeah, it's important, I kinda want they would explore this part of their history. Pic related.

>>51444572
You should make two versions, one with the grid, and one without the grid. Give the gridless one to your players.

>>51445315
Good suggestion. I put there a grid to tell how many days it takes to go from the one place to the other, but they don't have to know it.

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After skimming the thread and the useful guides I sketched this.

Thoughts?

Haven't placed any cities yet

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>>51426296
I actualy think there are too few kingdoms, medieval europe had hundreds. Anyway heres as brief a summary as i could manage for the nations: (attached)

>>51445909
>undead flavor mordor
kek

>>51446003
undead flavor ramen, orcs love it

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>>51424323
Got a WIP here, but before I go any further I was hoping to get some opinions on it.

>>51446057
Welcome to flavortown.

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Are there good map making tools for modern day looking maps?

I want to create an expanded zone map for stalker

>>51445909
You created very cool runes for your setting.
Wait a second, it's your handwriting, isn't it.

>>51447048
Drawn on my phone's screen, which works decently for sketching but for whatever goes to shit when trying to write at small sizes.

>>51446230
simple, but clear. I could give you the predictable rant about bifurcating rivers, but I imagine you've seen that a dozen times already if you're in this thread.

I think if you could come up with a couple different variations on the mountain/tree icons it'd be a little easier on the eye, and you might want to consider making the whole thing a little less dark (the base land/water colours, anyway)

>>51427133
Er þetta þú Kári!?

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>>51424323

Here's a WIP depicting a kingdom in my setting.
Any tips or critics wanna make their voice heard?

The kingdom in question (Varantii) is located just to the north of the Imperial Consulate which is one of the most prosperous rump states from the Empire of the Tetrarchy which had a massive role in shaping the culture and geopolitical structure of the continent. The Imperial Consulate has taken upon itself the burden of upholding the imperial civilisation and have grown into an imperial might of their own.
Due to the Kingdom of Varantii's geographical location it has grown wealthy as a middleman in the trade between the imperial territories of old and the Wild North. As a result it's also a highly syncretic society with quite a bit of conflict between proponents of the southern, imperial way of life and the Old Way.

>>51427184
Pfft. Cathars are scrub heretics. Manichaeism is the OG heresy. (And way closer to 'catholic + Zoroaster')

>>51447896
Lol
That feel when I understand Icelandic

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>>51448180
>Manichaeism is the OG heresy.
Manichaeism is its own religion.

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I swear, they've seen 1/3 of this map, and spent 4months in one dungeon.
I love this map which will never be used...

>>51448339
Also 1 hex is like...1 day overland travel on clear ground?

>>51425727
>Yer Kingdom
>In culture it has the most similarity with Byzantine and Germanic cultures
That means nothing as these cultures share nothing in common.

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>>51447484
Rivers have always been the bane of my existence when it comes to making maps.

Anyway here's part 2. The whole setting is supposed to be very North American Frontiers-y.

>>51448751
you should have a sasquatch icon to place in the foresty mountain areas, like the sea serpent icons used in the ocean.

>>51448858
I like this idea, and would totally do it if I could find a sasquatch icon.

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Not for a game and not quite done. Still playing around with fonts actually. But I'm taking my niece camping for the first time (she's 6) so I made a hand drawn version of where we'll be at. Turned out alright so I thought about doing this for my games. Thoughts/critiques?

>>51425727
Ok the Frozen North I get but why the fuck wouldn't anyone want the Green Plains Region..

You can't seriously act like nobody would colonise that shit. Green plains are literally fertile soil, even if they weren't there has to be SOME RESOURCES of SOME TYPE. Or is it literally just grass for hundreds of miles and no ores beneath the ground. Seems kind of ridiculous desu

>>51449334
A bit of weird flair. "Plains" are a race in the setting, somewhat of a cervid-canine humanoid. That region is called so because of the tribe/subrace that inhabits it, the Green Plains.

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>>51448935

>>51449006
I love it. Its very cozy.

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>>51424323
Play Battle Brothers if you want a fun world to slaughter goblins in... and get slaughtered in too. Orcs are no fucking joke in their big camps

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>>51434742

>>51450378
>that goofy big ass spider
>knight on a horse looking like he doesn't care
>some guys hunting a fucking mammoth
Count me in.

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>>51450493
It was a nice setting. Very cozy. Medieval Ice Age and all.

Was considering rewriting it as a science fantasy. Planet freezes over, civilization dies, magic returns, monsters return, nightmares return. Players are essentially techno-barbarians in the Neo Ice Age fighting the fairy tales of their dead civilization's past and trying to survive another winter before the wolves eat them all.

Sound good?

>>51450378
holy shit this rules

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For a Kill Six Billion Demons campaign.

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>>51426452
>>51426786
Keep up the great work anon, and I very much agree with what you say, when making my maps (as I draw them by hand as well) I always end up slightly switching art styles, which is very annoying.
Pic related is a region of my world map that I just did (Atleast the mountains). Forgive the quality, it was gyazo'd

>>51442988
That looks almost identical to the main landmass "Albion" In the fable series, mainly fable 2 and 3.