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TBH, I was on the toilet and got an idea for a town map I really want to draw. Mostly based or inspired by Guild War's 'Kryta' (GW1) but with with my own twists, adds and preferences to the point of unrecognisability. Key things I've jolted down; a double bight location forming a natural double harbour, the inner harbour mostly filled, the middle with a docks and edges farmland (salt water crops?), the outer with an island fortress with smaller islands on side and a harbour proper ...
I'm excited to say I've launched my first adventure module which is around my map called the Isles of Sarlona. Since it is around 9 islands I included my merchant ships map and row boat maps/tiles as well as a dungeon to explore within one of the isles. It is available exclusively on Patreon, but here is a teaser to hopefully get you interested. https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...hmentid=116272 https://www.patreon.com/Adventurepages ...
Updated 06-25-2019 at 10:11 PM by AdventurePages
So, I've managed to get my files into a better format. Here's an image of my world with latitude markings. Love to hear any comments.
Greetings all, I've been following some of the posts about building world climates, but haven't been able to post due to technical difficulties. Over the past few months, I'd been contemplating the world to set my writing in. I'd done most of the local cosmology - no science content here - down to what the average planet weather would look like. But I really wanted to know what the regional differences would be. Finally, I sat down with pen and paper ...
Updated 06-12-2019 at 10:48 PM by Carl Roberts
Currently working on three very different maps for three different authors. I also recently found the map I started for my own books, but it is so sad and unloved, haha! I barely sketched out the coastline and threw some names on there. I should really start actually working on that one. I need to hurry up and finish these maps first.
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