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Thread: Advice for Map Building?
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2020-05-03, 01:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Advice for Map Building?
I have a fairly good idea of what I want my world to look like and am now at the point where I need a map, but I am generally artistically challenged. Does anyone have good recommendations to help make a campaign map easy?
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2020-05-03, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2019
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- Somewhere over th rainbow
Re: Advice for Map Building?
I draw my own, but if you can'r then I guess you could use some ones that are online, the only problem I find is that it pregenerates EVERYTHING, so if there is something specific you want it can be hard to get that.
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2020-05-03, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Advice for Map Building?
I'm not very strong on the fine motor skills
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2020-05-03, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- In my own little world...
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Re: Advice for Map Building?
I'd ask the folks at the Cartographer's Guild. They do map stuff all the time. Some even do commissions.
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2020-05-03, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2018
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Re: Advice for Map Building?
Have you considered a hex/grid map? Instead of drawing the thing whole cloth, print off a grid or a hex grid and just color. Purple for swamps, grey for mountains, brown for hills, whatever. In places with important locales, just make a funny little mark or write a letter in place, just keep a good key and make your map intelligible to you and you're good to go!
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2020-05-04, 09:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2020
Re: Advice for Map Building?
If a hexmap is working for you, you might want to use the Hexographer. Just Google and you find it fast.
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2020-05-04, 11:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2019
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Re: Advice for Map Building?
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2020-05-04, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-05-05, 07:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
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Re: Advice for Map Building?
I will try out hexographer tomorrow or Friday.
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2020-05-05, 07:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
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Re: Advice for Map Building?
There's also Inkarnate, which has paid and free options for subscriptions. Super easy to make really cool looking maps without any artistic skill necessary.
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2020-05-05, 08:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2019
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Re: Advice for Map Building?
Spoiler: Total War
AsThe Celestial Empire of Longshan
Spoiler: Domination Victory
Equinox League
Red Aurora College - Fae of the Four Courts - Khalos Guild - Celestial Empire
(Pretend there’s more spoilers here because I haven’t found the will to digitize my campaign setting yet)
寧教我負天下人,休教天下人負我。