Map Thread

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its not spamming if its in the new thread ayyyeeeee

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Does this look acceptable? Am I missing something?
English is not my first language, did I somewhere fuck up?

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These threads are great.

>>51524466
Does that say 'ovenkoven'? Also, there are more German words than kreig, blitz, etc.

>>51525332
Yes it does say ovenkoven. I put the german words there because they sound cool, or does it break the consistency?

>>51524232
How do I make a map in digital media?

I suck at computers.

>>51525413
It looks a little weird. I'm not sure why a forest would be named 'Iron Valley'. I've also never heard of an Esker, but there's apparently a place called 'Esker Murder', so it's probably not something good.

Ovenkoven looks like gobbledygook.

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>>51525446

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>>51525446
S'more.

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>>51525446
Hold on to your man-tits.

Dungeon maps?

>>51525532
>>51525557
>>51525580
Wow, thanks a lot, friend!

Now, if only I had a program that changed PDF files to jpegs.

>>51525332
Certainly, in no small part because Kreig is not a German word.

>>51525621
>Now, if only I had a program that changed PDF files to jpegs.
...Why?

>>51525647
Because I don't have PDF reading software on this laptop.

>>51525704
PDF readers are incredibly easy to find. Adobe, Chrome, Google Drive or whatever.

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My full world map from babby's first map maker. Yes it is meant to resemble Earth somewhat.

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we bp oil spill mode

>Fuck plate tectonics
>Fuck prevailing winds
>Fuck weather patterns
>FUCK PHYSICS

Well, fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls? Ever do this?

>>51528083
Calvinball is lots of fun for a brief time but it's shit for a campaign.

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>>51528083
More or less this. World is laid out as if there are plate tectonics but the world was made by the gods (or so the stories go) and it's nature is sustained through magic. The very ebb and flow of magic acts like new prevailing winds and shape many (if not most) of it's weather patterns.

>>51525621
>>51525704
both firefox and chrome can read pdf
Literally what the fuck are you doing

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anyone got in-universe maps? cuz I do.

>>51527676
tell me about that black hole

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>>51529551
ancient magical event caused an explosion that leveled the big swamp and made it close to sea level, so it swamped up, its also teeming with bad evil shit

dunno what I'm going to do with the islands that shot north, but they'll be something cool

probably also bad shit down inside the hole too

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Still trying to decide what will be my coveted Map 200 in my map archive.

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I'm collecting maps for inspiration and practice, mostly. There are maps whose style I want to copy, or maps with perspectives and scales that I want to learn how to make myself.

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still had this saved on my HD for whatever reason lol

>>51524466
Looks good to me. I like how misty everything looks.

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>>51524232

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>>51525532
>Basic Map Making in GIMP.pdf
>>51525557
>Making maps.pdf
>>51525580
>(Mapmaking) Saderan - A t(...).pdf

cool.

>>51531884
>>51524232
>>51525532

modern housing floorplans.

if you pick a property and then scroll down below the pictures your reach a section of floorplans. (not all of them have this section but a lot of them do.)

https://www.architecturaldesigns.com/

useful for modern or near future games.

>>51530141
>Korean Africa

>>51532940
>Korea is this large strip of country cutting through most of the supercontinent

I recently switched to Paint.NET from MSPaint and I really like it. I'm still getting the hang of the tools though.

>>51532940
>implying Korea doesn't own portions of Madagascar in this universe

Bump for maps.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzS5fqP5rugEWVdqcWM0MWFYeUE/view?usp=drivesdk
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Map making stuff! I don't know why I didn't use media fire or mega, I'll combine these and upload it there later but for now enjoy the fonts and brushes n shit

>>51534212
Big paintNET map guy here

Layers and transparency are your best friends. I keep layers for water, water tint (made with gradients), land, and text. If you want a map that can be edited very easily with consistent blending, you're going to want to turn antialiasing off for brushes, buckets, and selection clipping. During selection I also recommend changing bilinear filtering to "nearest neighbor" filtering, which will prevent your selection from blurring when you resize or rotate it. With these settings, you will only get a single solid color with no blending or little transparent bits.

With antialiasing, however, the map will look much smoother and you won't have to spend hours doing manual blending. The issue is that if you want to do an expansion in the middle of something (increasing the amount of land between region A and B rather than just adding region C as an island or expanded coast) it will get really screwed up.

There's also something that you might not encounter, but I did, and it took tens of hours to adjust. If at some point you decide the map is too small (as in, the dimensions of the image file itself) and you make the whole thing 200% bigger or whatever, your coastlines will become super blocky as every old pixel will become multiple pixels, so it will not be consistent with any new coastlines you add. I ended up redoing almost the entire coastline of my map twice as I doubled its size twice.

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The party is going to a spoopy swamp to find the dark secrets behind a witch hunt that is occurring on an occupied city in the front lines of a war. This is a map of the region. It's gonna end with them fighting a Baba-Yaga and it's house which I homebrewed

>>51540182
Thanks for the advice. I've already figured out the anitaliasing stuff and I'm in process of switching to two layers - one for geography and one for place names. I've download a couple bitmap fonts from dafont that look great.

One thing I'm having trouble with is the clone stamp tool. It seems like it would be useful for repeating geographic features like hills or cities, but I can't figure out how it works.

>>51529333
This one's very nice anon.

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>>51529487
Crazy and slightly embellished in-universe is great.

>>51524232

Does anybody here use maptools?
http://www.rptools.net/toolbox/

>>51541962
The names don't look particularly Russian to me.

>>51542048
Why thank you!

>>51546572
Oletko suomalainen?

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Kicking around a semirandom map for our homebrew setting. Not!France is supposed to be the big empire that the players are trying to save, while the neighboring kingdoms bicker and wage political war.

The brother of the big meteor that created Emperor's Bay is also heading towards the world, but only the players know about it.

>>51546976
Nice map, but the names are cringey for a French speaker.

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I'm gonna try DMing a game in the world of Elona, so here's the map of North Tyris from the wiki with all the names removed.

>>51548084
Happens everytime that the map is not in english (or whatever native language) to be honest. I've learned to try to take it with humour, like the dude who called his city Corbata (tie in spanish) in a previous map.

>>51548084
They're supposed to be. Ain't no subtlety in this place. The aim was to be "vaguely French."

>>51548193
there's a non-cringey way to make not-French place names, like in dragon age

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Its there a easy way to take a map in one proyection and change it to another one?

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>>51548235
You have no idea how bad it gets. You should see the not!Italy.

Oh what the hell, here's the not!Italy.

>>51548307
>NROME
Yes, now I see.

>>51548363
It's supposed to be Firome, but looks like I fucked up that part of the map.

A magical place of halfling politics, besieged by schemings of an mind flayer lich... who is really having a hard time because the fuckers are laughing at his inane plots.

>>51548415
>Firome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia

>>51548461
Looks like I made the wrong decision regarding which country to ape.

>>51529333

>desert at the equator

Anon...

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behold, garish colors!

>>51548929
>Mexico
>Arabian Peninsula

duuuuhhhhhh durrrr hurrrrrrrrr

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Thoughts?

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>>51528083
Too much work. "Gods did it" is my first excuse when someone tries to gain nerd cred at my expense.

>>51531884
>Both of the outermost rooms are shitters

>>51549427
But none of those are in the ecuator?

>>51546976
what's up with the Cascade and Astolfo rivers? real world rivers don't generally split like that

Also, I'm assuming they're flowing out of a lake, because otherwise...

>>51550360
>>51548307

..oh dear.

Rivers REALLY don't work like that.

>>51550360
Yeah, though the whole of not!France is suffering from ancient precursors warping it like playdough.

>>51550372
>>51550469
Most likely. I'm literally reverse-engineering this shit from the notes.

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First Map for first home brew campaign. Going to add some crooked old trees in the marsh areas. Also going to add a few major settlements, but have the rest be not well documented. Opinions?

>>51548301
Bump

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Been working on a sci-fi setting for couple months now. Some of the system names are more or less placeholder but other than that I'm pretty much done with mapping for now. Next I'll start sketching out the different states, cultures, alien races (which are in the minority since most of the galaxy is inhabited by humans) and political relations or whatnot. The zoomed out part is where the players will be starting off.

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I guess while I'm in university I should take advantage of the online library databases

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ooh this is pretty interesting

>>51525532
either I'm a fucking retard or some parts of this are hard to replicate.

>>51549192
Garish colours are the best.

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>>51553268
I fail to see anything particularly interesting.

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>>51546800
Sorry, but I'm not Finnish.

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this is the entire thing. It's done since the taking of this pic. Sorry for the big one being in shitty res it's just that it's huge and I got a bad phone cam

1/3

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>>51558963
this has been finished since the pic was taken

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>>51558979
and last one 3/3

I wish I had a better camera. I want this on digital.

>>51558963
>>51558979
>>51558989
Damn this is beautiful. How long did it take?

>>51549552
Large Island north looks like the product of a game engine. Whole landmass looks boring and unnatural with the way the west and south hotspot bays are distributed and the islands conveniently speckle only near them.

Small Island looks more natural and interesting.

Would ditch big island and make the small one bigger.

>>51550929
The cracked ground/fields/swamp (?) in the center is less sharp than the other symbols and breaks the style.

>>51558989
Kinda reminds me of that nice Elder Scrolls: Morrowind map

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Map for a fairly generic gothic hexcrawler. It's only partially finished. I need to figure out what I should populate Soparish with (it's the spoopy mysterious shit as compared to Norparish's militant paranoia).

>>51558963
>>51558979
>>51558989
Gorgeous. You should take some more pics of it for us.

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>>51525580

Great guide and the one I am using, but skip the river guide in Saderan and use this river guide instead.

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>>51548307
>>51546976

>mfw I use mostly dead or barely spoken languages to avoid that

Well, for the most part. The chinamen have straight up words but they aren't a focus, and not enough people speak Sanskrit for me to get into trouble.

>>51564417
Lithuanian is basically Sanskrit with Slavic loanwords.

>>51565148
?

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Running a modern superheroes campaign with this.

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I'd like to know what you guys thing of the coasts of this continent. It's been a long time since I used inkarnate for the last time.

My boys will be exploring the western unmaped continent in order to prove that the world is spherical and, while they're at it, colonize some land and reach the city in the west that is now blocked by their enemies of the east. Because, if you're doing an exploration game, why not mash all the explorations together while you're at it.

>>51565204
It's true. Google 'lithuanian sanskrit'

>>51565406
I bet the dragon feels extremely bored and lonely.

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>>51566058
Also how retarded/unretarded are this tectonics?

Kind of a specific thing I'm in need of, Maps of a lunar surface for a Deathwatch game, as well as maps for a keep that looks Babylonian/Assyrian that wouldn't clash too much.
I'm not going to find much, am I?

>>51566328
>>51566058
Tectonics wise the mountains are fine, but the shape itself is basically America

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>>51559785
it took me 5 weeks I think, maybe 6. I kinda lost track.

>>51562272
I'll take some more pics tomorrow. Have this one now though.

I'm really glad you guys like it.

>>51566058
>>51566328
The shapes are fine.
The mountains are pretty retarded though.

>>51566436
If the ocean ate most of california, louisiana, georgia, oklahoma, florida, new England, the midwest, and there were no great lakes, and superWashington extended into the ocean, then sure, it's basically America.

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>>51566436
Since they will be only visiting the coast, I don't think they'll notice or it's even gonna be relevant. I'd be more worried about them thinking it's Greece.

It's the California's peninsula that makes it look like N. America, right?

>>51566496
What would be a better mountain setup that would look more aesthetic?

>>51567012
Good but too general. Urals are not formed by tectonics. The alps and the himalayas look more like fat blobs than lines.

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It was a cool idea for a city. Not sure if the map was any good.

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>>51525704

>>51566554
>SMBC
Patrician taste anon

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Battlemaps okay? I'm looking for a burning/burnt up mansion map that I've seen floating around. The larger and more dungeon-y the better. I'll take battlemap requests in the meantime and post from my modest[/spoiler[ collection.

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>>51553184
Found my Map 200!

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mfw I just bought this notebook and started this map about 20 minutes ago and came to tg to start this thread, :]
I need names for the area marked sister cities. they are 4 countries that came together to build the giant wall (also needs a name) there was a fifth but when nomadic tribes broke trough they abandoned the fifth country and walled themselves again instead of fighting the horde. southwest of the pic. help?

>>51530141
All roads lead to Korea.

>>51530141
>"I don't think this is the way back home"
>"Do you see the stars on my shoulders?"
>"Yes, General-nim."
>"That's right. Shut up."

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I kind of like Inkarnate.

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Here´s a large wetland bordering an arctic region.

>>51567233
Urals were formed by tectonic plates. They are just old as fuck and dead for long time. Alps and Himalayas are young and live, they still grow. Wait for few millions years and you will have Ural-like mountains in place of Alps (and Carpathians and Pyrenees) and Tibet like highliand in Himalayas.

>>51548301
Google "NASA GISS G.Projector"

>>51549427
North of Brazil, South of Colombia, Gabon, Congo, Indonesia, Borneo. These would be areas along the equator. Mostly jungle.

>>51573284
The Ogaden begs to differ

>>51558989
Looks beautiful! Much better than any map made on a computer.

>>51573326
The Ogaden is above the equator. But I guess that South Somalia and some part of northern Kenya might be desertic. Compared to North Brazil, Colombia and Borneo, they are small and probably more of an exception.

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Actually the equatorial parts of Kenya and Somalia are pretty green.

>>51527344
>. Yes it is meant to resemble Golarion somewhat.
ftfy

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I'm just drawing a political map and I wanted to drop off some inspiration.

>>51530113
Reminds me of Earthbound so much.

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>>51576845

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>>51576924

>>51576907
>read this
>onette theme immediately begins in my head

God tier taste anon

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>>51525704

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-alL5XTlng4w/VQjwDoo6oEI/AAAAAAAACsI/y5xTvn4QE5I/s1600/The%2BDessarin%2BValley%2B1086%2Bx%2B1379.jpg

This guys maps are always great. Evocative and functional.

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>>51577042
>imageboard
>posting links to images
for what purpose?

>>51576907
It's a good thing Earthbound isn't poisoned by any political agenda in the slightest. Unlike the series this map is based on.

>>51530182
Can you post the one that has the directional guardians and the plane of blue fire that's like an old pc graphic?

>>51577042
Too bad they're wasted on Faerun's wacky geography.

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>>51577504
This?

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A political map WIP

>>51527344
but where are the rivers? how will you know where people will live?

>>51528083
I am always way way too realist in my world making. Causes me to almost never finish.

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>>51579390
A "satellite" map for a good measure.

Bump, I have some stuff I want to post later.

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I draw this kind-shitty in universe map in photoshop as my players go through the world. It keeps me focused as I narrate.

It's not incredible, and it makes no logical sense, but I like how it looks.

>>51525294
>>51541359
>>51541962

Where can I get waymarkers for cities and points of interest like that?

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>>51586288

>>51586425
Gorgeous.

>>51565148
It always sounds Greek to me.

>>51566490
>Jungle of Passion / Passion Jungle

Top kek.

>>51568077
>East EU is west
>West EU is east

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told my friend's I'll make a map for tabletop rpg to play with them, and after doing the elevation map I'm kinda stuck because my knowledge about geography is nil.
It only needs to be semi-realistic, I already marked a bit of the biomes but I don't even know what to do with the rest so if anyone has some free time he's willing to spare could you roughly zone the remaining biomes for me?

>>51567012
How do you decide where the wind blows from?

Also I was sure that in most places wind blows from different directions in different seasons?

>>51585243
Too obviously russia/eastern europe. But it's okay if you're okay with that.

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>>51585243
Ha, my city is called Daiche.
What can you tell me about Daiche?

>>51529588
>This drawing style
Make me your bitch senpai

>>51585158
It's directly on the tool they are using.

It's called Inkarnate, it's free, it's online, and it's awesome, go try it my dude.

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I posted this in the last thread. Looking for some input.

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>>51586358

>>51586358
>>51592731

These are useful, anyone have more things like this?

>>51581444
>>51579390
These are beautiful. Did you use anything special to make them?

>>51592533
Maybe change the font to something more aesthetically congruent with the rest of the map.

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So guys this is literally my very first attempt at making a map after a few glasses of wine last night. Please tell me how shit it is and what I can improve.

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This is a map created by some anon on /tg/ it inspired me to make a conjoined map. Maybe it will inspire others.

inkarnates fucked atm so making some nice conjoined maps probably won't happen any time soon

>>51594526
Thanks!
Just photoshop with Saderan's tutorial (posted around the beginning of the thread) and a tablet.
Maybe I could throw together a tutorial for making a political map and my changes to the Saderan style maps one day.

>>51597515
I honestly think you should just start over and use Inkarnate instead of whatever software you're using.

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I wanted to have a setting based on the Biblical and Mesopotamian flood myths, so I made 2 crude maps on Inkarnate. This one is pre-diluvian.

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>>51598028
and this one is post-diluvian. The southern continent is a bit fucked up from the rest of the map because I had to insert a previously established series of islands for my campaign so far.

I remember Inkarnate had way more options, like volcanoes. What the fuck happened to all that?

>>51597564
I'm curious about Rustport. Is it like some kind of medieval junker town?

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>>51597673

Ok I was using GIMP with some crappy stamps for buildings and trees and stuff and was very drunk lol. Anyway this is my attempt at about 20 minutes in Inkarnate, the large city from the last pic is the big city split in half by the river in this pic, a sort of Constantinople type of city. This is a bit wider though not the whole world.

What I'm really looking for right now to make sure I can make realistic continents and biomes and landforms. I can get more stylish later.

>>51598569
Everything looks fine to me.

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>>51600282
why not just use planetos at that point?

>>51600357
Because the game is supposed to have a ASOIAF feel, but it's set in D&D.

>>51600282
Why doesn't the Kingdom of Lakes and Rivers have more lakes and rivers?

>>51600824
It's all a clever ruse to trick invaders into not bringing a supply of fresh water with them.

Did anyone save up that map that was nothing but dicks?

>>51600824
That's a good question. I'll fix that right now.

>>51566588
>>51566328

Any awnser by anon or someone else? I really want to profit from the fact that the players know literally nothing of this land so I can do whatever I want with it for now.

>>51558963
I really like those islands anon

>>51600979
I'm not an expert on plate tectonics, but I would imagine there would be mountains going down those long peninsulas. The islands in the archipelago in the bottom left corner look they fit a little too neatly together. Maybe you should also add some foothills or make the mountains smaller, depending on the scale you're going for.

>>51601096
Sadly apparently Inkarnate doesn't allow for smaller mountains, which is also the reason mountains stop at the peninsulas.

>>51594867
Not the guy who posted that map, but I think it looks nice as is.

>>51598028
>>51598064

Looks kinda cool, specially the post-diluvian one. The pre-diluvian one looks a bit empty of land, like another original deluge already happened.

>>51530141
what the fuck, korea

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When do threads start to autosage, again?

>>51601096
>>51601129

Actually I kinda managed to make it work. Had to fatten the peninsulas a bit, but it worked.

Also I added vegetation and color to mark the climates (although it gets a bit random north of the mountains). Lots of the trees are probably being removed when I place the settlements.

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>>51602321
forgot pic

>>51602333
That looks much nicer. The trees really pull it together.

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>>51601640
350, I believe.

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Behold, the first map being made with sai. Red isn't a mistake.

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>>51524307
That's beautiful
Did you draw it?
Can you teach me?

>>51605151
310

>>51605752
It's not that it looks bad, it's that I can't understand shit.

>>51610731
*Its not >only< that...

OK YOU GEOLOGIST FUCKS

IS IT FEASIBLE FOR THERE TO BE A CREVICE/CANYON IN A CLIFF THAT'S LARGE ENOUGH TO HOST A PORT TOWN, BUT SMALL ENOUGH TO BE CLAUSTROPHOBIC AS SHIT?

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>>51605983
Thank you, yes, and kind of

stay in these threads and watch all the tutorials you can: http://www.fantasticmaps.com/category/tips-and-tricks/ these were the ones that helped me the most

otherwise just practice

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Is this very retarded?

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>>51602333
Added settlements in those places I judged that would be the principal cities. It's not a super-populated continent, although of course there's smaller population groups not represented.

I also made a parallel map with the different regions or cultural areas. Most of the place is iron age technology at the very best, so there's not much contact or knowledge between those areas that don't overlap. Ignore the names, most (but not all) will be changed.

>>51613466
I suppose everybody living outside of the designated Strait Men area is gay?

>>51614186
Nah, there's some weirdos who are bi.

>>51605983
Study basic perspective and buy a tablet

>>51567654

Anyone know a good place to get more battlemaps like this? I'm gearing up to do some wargaming in various settings (WWI first, of which this lightly ruined village map will work just fine) and I need some decently large battle maps, enough for some squad-level recon and fighting action.

>>51616091
Not really, sorry, but every time I google for city maps (actual ones) I end up finding a lots of roleplaying stuff similar to that anon's map. Might be of help.

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I've posted this a few times and all I've got are jokes about some pf the rushed place names in the south and comments about how it looks like Europe. It's obviously intended to look like Europe. Can I get some real comments and criticism?

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Here's a town map I made for a merchant town located in the center of my continent's "bread basket" farmland.

>>51617050

Man, there should be like a booru for this kinda stuff.

>>51586517
Shame about the independent spelling though

>>51617555
The country to the right either needs to be lighter in color or its text needs to be lighter, because it's unreadable.

Otherwise it's pretty good, though depending on how feudal your setting is you might want more fragmented borders (see the Holy Roman Empire and Hanseatic league). Also, you better have at least a basic physical map to go with it.

You might want to show capitals/major cities on this map, and even throw in a regional map or two.

What's the deal about Inkarnate being "no-skill"? I've hand-drawn maps in the past and I'm thinking about giving Inkarnate a try simply because its faster and makes your map digital right away.

>>51618692
It's easier than literally any other option.

>>51618692
It is built for the lowest skilled mappers with the least extensive maps. On a very small scale with low effort, inkarnate is a great program, but once you move past that it loses its value and limits the creator. Other software becomes better at that point.

Inkarnate is also very limited in style and content, not much imagination can be put into the color schemes and symbols etc.

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>>51618692
Unlike Campaign Cartographer or Hexographer, Inkarnate doesn't require massive manuals or hours of practice to make good looking maps. While you are locked into the one art style that's provided, it doesn't matter if you're making maps for yourself or your friends and don't want to spend more than a few hours working on it.

>>51593012
pic-related

>>51601552
So many people were taking the Long Korea challenge that Paradox decided to nerf long nations and prevent it from ever happening again.

TFW trying to make names for towns in Not-France that don't sound stupid to a French person.

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>>51623027
My map is here >>51617555
Borleans is the Not!France, it also draws influence from northern Italy but is obviously France-esque.
I like to think the name itself isn't that stupid. Orleans is a major city in France, and I accidentally ended up spelling it with a B once in an essay and though to myself 'that's not bad'
I speak French (I live in Ontario), and that's actually a curse for coming up with fictional french sounding place names. I always just try to use words to describe what the place is, similar to English towns like Kingston, Kettleton etc.. Examples of this I've used which turned out all right are:
>Montblanc (white mountain)
>Trois Rivieres (three rivers, this is an actual place in Quebec though)

You can also use one word, in conjunction with some French sounding mumbo jumbo. I find this usually works well.
>Rottoneau (eau means water)
>Lanceau (eau again)
>Maisoi (supposed to be a degradation of 'maison du roi' which means house of the king)

You can also just use French sounding nonsense
>Lysoi
>Orbreaut
>Dumont (technically means 'from the mountain' but whatever)

Finally, there's a good generator for this stuff. You can put in any country and it will list off some tint little neighbourhoods or villages in that country. By putting in France I got
>Germonville
>Dalot
>Gouex
>Ramatuelle
>Couvains

Here's the link:
http://www.mithrilandmages.com/utilities/CityNames.php

also feel free to steal any of the ones from my setting if you want.

>>51612031
>Wind from north
Yes

>>51623741
Also note that France has a ton of relatively dumb place names (Condom, Rotrou, etc, they also named a place in Haiti Trou-Dondon) so like, sometimes absurd sounding names can be alright.

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>>51525704

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>>51623741
Thank you! That name generator is exactly what I needed. I found two other "French" place-name generators, but neither of them seemed very good compared to yours. Plus, I know it's decent if it's recommended by a Francophone.

Here's a map of what I've got so far. Some of the names are shamelessly stolen from Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard, some are shamelessly stolen from old Medieval romances and some I just made up myself. I'm definitely going to add some more soon using the advice you gave me.

>>51617555
Since it's a political map, I'd add important provinces, cities and maybe even notable ruins, castles, roads, ect. For areas that are too small for their name, I'd consider assigning them a number and put a key of those regions to the side. That way, the map will be less cluttered. For example:

1. Auffershallow
2. Mesogor
3. Verillia
4. Duntar Valley Alliance

and so on.

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My amateur hour map.

Campaign I'm DMing takes place on the bottom-right continent, though it's about to expand out.

>>51623741
When in doubt, name your city La Mort aux Juifs.

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>>51623027
>>51623741
>>51624085
To all the amateurs: this is how you do pseudofrench.

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Really basic to start. I want to add an impact crater to the northern edge of the largest continent. Thoughts? Do any of the islands bear too close a resemblance to real world ones?

>>51628786
Australia is pretty blatant, but how much of a resemblance is too close? Shit's subjective, anon.

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Map I made for a game put on hiatus

Is anyone else incredibly self-conscious about names?

I'm more than happy to draw shit and show it to people, but I get apprehensive as soon as they ask what something is called.

>>51627320
Oh no, I thought you were trolling but the province names aren't horrible.
>les
>Mait
>fous
>Quois
This is probably bait but your cities are literally "the" "but" "crazy" and "what"

>>51629167

Yeah, god help me. I try to use names that are similar to whatever real-life culture I'm taking influence from, but I'm always nervous about naming things, certain it's going to sound horrible in another language. I try to google everything I come up with to make sure it doesn't have any obvious/bad meaning in another language.

>>51629232
Les is the only one that's spelled that way, and place names that sound and almost look like normal words is actually surprisingly common.

I'd say Lez (unless it's meant to be an I)

>>51629167
Then think back to the place's history, how that could relate to the name it was given, and how the language would morph it as time went by

Shit, ever heard of "Zaragoza"? It used to be "Caesar Augusta"; get some city named to some king, emperor or hero and then roll the name around until it barely resembles what it used to mean.

Something else that's pretty fun too: Invasions.
Got a river called Ana? Cool, now have some foreign force conquer the area, and "guadi" is "river" to them, so "river Ana" becomes "guadi Ana".
Now have the area be conquered, or even reconcquered, cneturies later. To the new coonquerors, Ana will be known as "river Guadiana".
Bam, there go most southern rivers in Spain.

Do the same by mixing, dunno, ethiopian, german and japanese, then say it over and over in english until the resulting "monster-of-a-word" becomes a way more manageable "monstawah" you could use day to day.

>>51629118
Kind of reminds me of Strangereal. Which isn't a bad thing, mind you.

>>51627320
nah dude
THIS is how you not!french
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev3Noeh4kpg

>>51629167
Some other stuff you can do: The actual name is lost to time, but multiple theories exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania#Etymology
Personally, I love "Rabbit Island", although "City of the Sun" sounds quite exotic

Or, even funnier, the invaders misunderstood the locals, and named a place "I don't understand you" because they kept saying that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n#Origin_of_.22Yucat.C3.A1n.22

>>51621666
>pic
Thanks, stuff like this helps a lot.

>>51629435
It's an I

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Also I wonder if there's anyone here to appreciate my Netherlands

>>51629987
10/10 would steal not!Portugese colonies

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I guess this fits in this thread although it's nowhere as impressive looking as everything posted here.
It's my take on what a linguistic map of Tamriel from the Elder Scrolls series would look like. I know TES isn't originally /tg/ but I've posted this in the TES threads that show up here and it's really just a little project of mine, combining two of my interests, map making and Elder Scrolls. It's nowhere near completion and it's obviously missing the legend. Black borders represent languages, dark gray are dialect groups and light gray are individual dialects; most of the latter are missing right now.
If anyone has any pointers or questions, go ahead.

>>51629987

>Zwurgle
I'm Dutch and I'm ok with this.

>>51629987
>Limburg is called Zuipland
Are you sure it's not the real map?

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Gonna be running a hexcrawler and, I'm not sure, but the rivers look weird to me. Each hex is supposed to be 5 miles, btw.

>>51630422
The rivers are far too straight (and probably too wide, but clarity in mapmaking is ok too), but you can simply state that it's a matter of the IC cartographer not being precise enough.

>>51630527
Mostly this
You could get away with straight rivers if it were way more mountainous, but as you get away from the mountains and the hills rivers tend to get wawy

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>>51629987
>Moop

>>51630422
Put the rivers over the lines between hexes

>>51629987
>>51630203
Limburg represent.

Fuck you.

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>>51629987
>Kabouterland
>Wesleystad

Mfw.

are out there any good tutorials for drawing maps by the hand?

>>51630422
>>51630527
>>51630623
>>51631758
Various mathematical formulae relate the variables of the meander geometry. As it turns out some numerical parameters can be established, which appear in the formulae. The waveform depends ultimately on the characteristics of the flow but the parameters are independent of it and apparently are caused by geologic factors. In general the meander length is 10-14 times, with an average 11 times, the fullbank channel width and 3 to 5 times, with an average of 4.7 times, the radius of curvature at the apex. This radius is 2-3 times the channel width.

>>51632970
Or you could not be autistic and just squiggle the lines a bit when drawing rivers.

>>51592498
dude.... thank you.

>>51632970
Great! Someone who knows their shit about rivers!
Can you tell me more about how fast rivers change their banks? As in, if I build a city on a river bank, can I expect it to be that way 500 years? 1000? 10.000?

>>51623823
look up boreas on wikipedia

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>>51630527
>>51630623
Do these look better

>>51631758
What?

>>51553163
>I guess while I'm in university I should take advantage of the online library databases
I'm in uni too, and would love to do this. Advice on what to look for/where to look?

>>51553268
Is that Quebec City?

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heres my map
it's a work in progress
all hand drawn, every tree!

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I named the towns after trees and tried to give each a theme based on aspects of the tree and the seven deadly sins, for instance pine is mostly used commercially so I made that one the town of greed. Oak town is just a big generic town though. There's also vikings at the bottom because fuck yeah, vikings.

>>51632970
Finally an unironically autistic poster.

>>51634319
I'm not sure why you would painstakingly handdraw a map, only to put fucking Hobart on there.

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>>51634523
Hobart is a small farming village with an important role in my campaign!
Because of it's close proximity to Whyrgrad it's the location of many refugees from the now destroyed Corull looking to seek shelter as Whyrgrad has closed it's gates to immigrants.

The places on the map that i posted are merely the places where my adventurers have visited or heard of so far, not the entirety of the world. (which i have planned but have not put to a map depending on where the PCs go)

>>51601459
Thanks, I wanted to make the pre-diluvian lands the size of continents, but I think I have to re-draw it.

>>51633245
Wind can blow from north, yes, but it due the terrain (look up map of Greece, look at mountains an tell me how there could not be Boreas) or local atmospheric pressure. But general wind direction, in continent scale, is due the coriolis effect.
Or maybe you want it to be magic then fuck this shit and do what you wish.
>>51633209
I've heard it once and look rest on wikipedia lol
But I know some shit. Rivers in large scale tend to be more or less in the same place but in minor scale they bend as fuck if they are not regulated. Large cities did that in thier areas and they are in the same place (look up Mesoptamia, Egypt, China or any European capital). Sure, Castle that once was on bank of river may be on lake now or there are islands with apple tree and sheep on them but general shape is preserved, espetialy in lower parts.
Have two good articles
http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2015-07-28/learning-live-water
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/208-shifting-like-a-snake-ancient-mississippi-courses

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>>51598028
The two big lands with a small island in the center reminds me of Tera's world map. I think The Slayers had an episode with a similar layout.

>>51634319
The White Pine River is triggering me.

>>51633524
It does look better. Remember it's perfectly fine for rivers to go next to or even through cities and towns. Plenty of towns are built on one or on opposite banks of a river.

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Time to post my Germany

>>51641457
>Heineken
That's a Dutch beer brand, you absolute barbarian.
>Schlampenburg
Kek
>Würstchenberg
Top kek
>Drahdiwahberl
Wat is this I don't even
>Wank
Top bants.
>Schmutzigdorf
My sides.

>>51641853
>Wat is this I don't even
Saupreiß, pls

>>51586425
>when fantasy maps contain your home city and the city you went to Uni in

>>51641457
decent map and regions but dear god some of these names have me in fucking stitches
>Heineken
>hangover
>goldenburg
>walmart
>wank
>westwestfallen
>bad kissing
>rhinoland
>daschnschbiagl

>>51643415
Well duh, maybe because that's not a fantasy map, but an actual map of Britain?

>>51643626
I know its geographically accurate. I called it a fantasy map because it really blurs the lines of history. For example the map mixes celtic, anglo-saxon and roman names for places. For example Leeds is called Loidis, but York is labelled Eboracum instead of Eoforwick.

>>51586425
It's beautiful.
I like every part of this map except the water which looks like I'm watching it on a very old tv with a messed up signal.

>>51643714
Loidis is already a brythonic root.

>>51645135
the first mention of it was in 770 something though. The Romans mentioned no town in the area despite its proximity to the forts at Templeborough in Rotherham and York. Loidis was a firmly Anglo-Saxon town that just took the name from celtic.

>>51546572
>A fuckton of air ports
>Nearly no bridges
>Lines aren't colored, only given different names
This is a disaster.

This may be heresy for a map thread, but is there a good way to randomly generate a map?

If I try to make one on my own, it always ends up being not-Europe. I think I need a base to start with and perhaps edit as needed if I want to make a slightly more original world.

>>51645758
That means the toponym already existed and very likely a town there. The first mention of just about everything in England is from that time period because there's fuck all records that survived.

>>51647061
Well, this algorithm seems nice:
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/demo.html

This seems even better:
http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/

Both of them are also good because they explain how they work and it's quite on spot.

on the left, Ancient map that was made by scrying and Geomancy of the isolationist and hostile continent 900 years ago.
on the right the same continent now, after it got slammed into by a heavenly body.
still need to go in and add rivers and mountains in a hand drawn looking way.

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>>51652325
forgot to attach the map. Long day at work.

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Wife drew a map for my campaign

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The 'realistic' version of one of my maps.

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>>51654102
The sea monsters are a nice touch. I'm always a sucker for that stuff.

>>51654302
Sorta reminds me of Calradia, which is ok I guess.

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>>51655185

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>>51656416

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>>51656425