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The Great
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Ghendar
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In ur house, stealin' yur minis

05/19/2008 7:40 AM
I love to draw maps but don't have the time to hand draw much anymore so I go looking for inspiration. One of my biggest inspirations is our very own little planet earth. What I do is find an interesting area and either mapquest or google map it and then do some print screens and a little cut and paste into MS Paint until I come up with something like this. For me interesting maps include water and varied coastlines. Lots of jagged coast with peninsulas and inlets. Usually the final map won't be just what you see above but will be modified in areas according to my tastes. And with the sorry state of geography education in this country these days, none of the players will know they are really adventuring in Michigan. Well, except Vreck.

Ghendar - Now snark free! Champion of the Spider Eater with rider. I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29

The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
Warlord

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In ur house, stealin' yur minis

05/19/2008 7:45 AM
Here's one based on an area of Canada with a buch of lakes.

Ghendar - Now snark free! Champion of the Spider Eater with rider. I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29

The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
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Warlord

11456 Posts

In ur house, stealin' yur minis

05/19/2008 7:47 AM
And finally one based on the Chesapeake Bay

Ghendar - Now snark free! Champion of the Spider Eater with rider. I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29

Zenako
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3468 Posts

05/19/2008 12:18 PM
nice captures... I used to use some Topo maps I picked up cheap for some locals for actual adventures. Some maps stores clearance out seldom used maps and they often had some interesting geology that makes for fun questing. (I was almost a Geology major for a few yers until I went Materials Science/Metallurgy so the descriptions of rock formations from me tend to be someone .... ahem ..... involved and detailed, with the goal of providing clues to the players about what might lie ahead...

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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
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Umass Amherst Baby!

05/19/2008 10:06 PM
Neat! I used to spend most of my time getting tready for a game by drawing maps up. Cool little shortcut there....

Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror.

stephengroy
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Tempe AZ Beeyotch

05/22/2008 3:51 PM
Downtown Archeronapolis, based on Indianapolis by Robb http://www.public.asu.edu/~rbeachle/RMEIndex.htm

Waiting for Chainmail Equivalencies since 2005

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