Greetings!

[Celepheid]

Hello everyone!

It's a pleasure to meet you all. I am not generally very good at this whole 'introduction' thing, but I shall give it a go none-the-less.

I am a Swede, currently living and working in Finland since about a year back. In my spare time I am spending a lot of time working on one of my great, relatively newfound passions - writing and creating tabletop rpgs. As I said, it is a relatively newfound passion of mine, tough I have been playing tabletop rpgs for a fairly long time.

Anyway, as mentioned, the whole bit about writing rpg games - i.e. game mechanics - is a fairly newfound interest of mine. I have found that I love the process and everyhing about it. The dream would be to be able to one day publish the game I am currently working on since about a year back. I am also working on building a world to go with the game mechanics. Or, technically, it is the other way around. I started with working on the world, and then I began creating the game mechanics to go along with it.

Sadly, my artistic skills are not much good, nor are my map-drawing skills, but I look forward to seeing more of all the great maps that you guys are producing. And if I ever do get around to getting the game published, I might look into commissioning a map for it as well. We shall see.

For now I am happy to be here. See you all out there on the forums!

[ChickPea]

Hi Celepheid and welcome. There are a lot of gamers here, so if you want to discuss maps or world-building for your game, go right ahead. You shouldn't write off your artistic skills. Why not try a couple of tutorials and see how you go? You may surprise yourself!

[Celepheid]

Hello ChickPea! Thank you for welcoming me to the forum.

That's good to know! Thanks!

I'm actually trying to work on a map for my setting right now. But it is a rather big project as it is a whole world, currently with 4 different continents planned. ^^;; A lot of different cultures, nations, etc to take into account. I'm working on a basic map to help me keep track of borders, major natural features, etc. So I am currently practicing my map-drawing skills. Though I think for later, if I ever manage to get it published, I will probably see if I can get help to make a proper map from someone who is actually good at it. lol

Biggest issue for me right now, with regards to making the basic map, is just to somehow get what I have in my head down on an actual map. It's not easy. I'm much better at writing and coming up with stuff than I am at drawing.