Introduction
Hello one and all, I came to this forum on accident. I am sure most people do. However, I am fascinated by maps for all types of Role-Play games. NOT Roll play. Roll play is where you just chunk dice a lot. Anyway, I have been gaming for over forty years. I started when I was thirteen, maybe even younger. I used to draw maps on graph paper, I still do. I do use hex paper as well but my preferred paper is graph. First I draw them in pencil until I get what I want. Then, I usually ink them in after that.
At one time, when I was going to conventions A LOT A LOT, I would purchase a booth and sell my maps. I had all kinds. Forest, city, sewer, kingdom, dungeon, river system, and probably others. I sold them back in 86 for real cash. $15 per map. They were unique one of a kind maps. I never photocopied them. I loved it. THEN, (cue scary music) life happened. I grew up. Went to college, then the university. Then grad school. I ended up a theoretician. Now that my son is old enough to start Role-Playing, I have started drawing again.
I don't do accurate geographical maps. A blob-circle is good enough for mountains. A shaded area is good enough for a forest. However, as we play, and the world grows, I am refining the maps. They are getting to look more like what I used to make. I guess the map fever has gripped me again.
So, anyway, I am a hobby mapmaker at best. Still, love to make them.
Heck, back in the early 80s when computer games were fun and actually had good story lines, Now the game makers rely too heavily on flash and glitz, I would actually map out the games.
Fun story. I tried to map out pit fall and found out that it is a never ending map. But I did manage to map out Autodule, Ultima I, II, and III. Wasteland, and other games. Anyone remember Masters of Orion? That was probably the only time I made a space map.
I have been a gamer so long that I moved into the back end of it. I worked with a few board game makers and a couple of role-play game makers as well. Never got paid for those gigs. But their end products never got off the ground.
Maybe, I will start making again and go to cons. Who knows.
All I know is that I am having a blast Role-Playing again. AD&D 1st ed.
I may reach out to one of yall and see if you are up to the challenge of making me a world map.
Is there a commission page on the forums where people display their work and say they are willing to work with you to generate a map? Just wondering.
I probably won't be on very much. I am a professor and get real busy. But I will swing by from time to time. Heck, I may even blop a map down...or two.
Cheers!
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