tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post6268066196915925871..comments2023-10-30T09:58:01.179-04:00Comments on Tankards & Broadswords: Campaigns Born From MapsJack Badelairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10932441028544500024noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-20277562814598908902010-09-16T15:58:11.216-04:002010-09-16T15:58:11.216-04:00Campaign Cartographer is sort of the "industr...Campaign Cartographer is sort of the "industry standard" for RPG map-making as far as I'm concerned. You can order and buy it online. <br /><br />For getting inspirations, try to find the Atlas of Middle Earth - it's a book filled with drawn maps, and great for getting you in a map-making mood. You can take one, make an effort to copy it, and add a few "tweaks" to make it your own. <br /><br />It's all about baby steps.Jack Badelairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10932441028544500024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-70511160493656482962010-09-16T15:24:37.449-04:002010-09-16T15:24:37.449-04:00This is a pretty awesome map. Where is a good plac...This is a pretty awesome map. Where is a good place to get started in making them? I'm pretty rubbish at it, myself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14239791801113599773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-59658551729409408722009-10-16T10:07:40.992-04:002009-10-16T10:07:40.992-04:00Maps are part of the reason why I was attracted to...Maps are part of the reason why I was attracted to J.R.R. Tolkien's <i>The Hobbit</i> (and later, the Lord of the Rings). Once I read that, the rest as they say is history. I still love those Middle Earth maps, which are a great mix of detail, evocative place names, and mysterious, dangerous edges.Brian Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05563309422791320114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-49594681350428738832009-10-16T06:33:50.719-04:002009-10-16T06:33:50.719-04:00Neat, you captured one aspect of MERP maps. All t...Neat, you captured one aspect of MERP maps. All the little details you keep coming across the more you look at the map. A cave up in the mtn, hut in the woods.<br /><br />I like the designation of cultivated lands. Wilderness should be wild and mysterious compared to civilization. <br /><br />What are the "watchtowers" around the edges of farmlands?Norman J. Harman Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319655075997712313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-34052012321905812862009-10-15T21:40:00.541-04:002009-10-15T21:40:00.541-04:00Map fascination = yes. This may be in part to me ...Map fascination = yes. This may be in part to me being a visual learning. That and maps are cool. :)<br /><br />World creation started with some modules strung together (Hommlett is still in play as a location in my homebrew - Gundigoot is alive and well) and then the map was build outward in circles from there. I did make a big map of the whole area after that but the game development goes in spurts between finding an adventure to fit the map and finding a map location to place the adventure with no discernable pattern. Go figure.<br /><br />Barad<br />http://gnotions.blogspot.com/Barad the Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09511410827757898750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-59152868557741520492009-10-15T17:56:28.318-04:002009-10-15T17:56:28.318-04:00I remember back in grade school, years before I ha...<i>I remember back in grade school, years before I had even encountered D&D...</i><br /><br />My experience was near identical. I spent (probably hundreds) of hours expanding, modifying and projecting maps from novels. I would throw my creations onto my bedroom wall using what is probably my all time favourite christmas present... my <a href="http://www.antiqueradio.org/magn02.htm" rel="nofollow">Magnajector</a>! Then I moved into whole cloth creations.<br /><br />Back then there was only the library and it's 10¢ photocopies (honour system, of course) for reproduction.<br /><br />I can't help but feel that the pre-internet era provoked something in children... a combination of "how can I do this" and "I'm on my own" that the omnipresence and thoroughness of the internet precludes.rainswepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06165059567790555748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-62563009015955174272009-10-15T12:09:03.922-04:002009-10-15T12:09:03.922-04:00I've always been a bit of a map-a-phile since ...I've always been a bit of a map-a-phile since I got into RPGs ages ago. Though I was never good at drawing my own outside of graph paper dungeons, I've always loved looking at maps for settings like the Realms. Especially Waterdeep. By far, my favorites are City of Splendors, City Systems, and Volo's Guide to Waterdeep. The maps alone make the place feel so detailed and alive.GeekBobhttp://diceandmen.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646163054327608765.post-76173915752084028672009-10-15T11:56:54.625-04:002009-10-15T11:56:54.625-04:00I think my first three years of role-playing were ...I think my first three years of role-playing were entirely consumed by exploring a world created from various maps from sword&sorcery books, just strung together.<br /><br />I know Warriors of the Flame was in there for sure and probably the Belgariad. It was never about what was in the novels themselves. I'd just plunk dungeons and encounters in the middle of those funky and fun maps.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.com