New Member saying hello

[Gleep]

would like to take this opportunity to say hello

i am an Old school DM starting a new campaign for my Role play group and have decided to create my own world to this end i went looking for maps that i could draw inspiration from as i started to draw my own.

i have been looking around at some of the map drawing tools and this has lead me to this Forum.

hope you have a good Day

Gleep

[Chick]

Hi Gleep. As a long time DM with an extensive world I created, I would like to suggest that you leave the map to near last. I spent months writing "lore", history, rumors, stories, wars, famous people, famous events and weaponry, mysteries, artifacts, an ultimate bad guy and his minions, and the future I expected to unfold as the adventurers solved the mysteries, found the artifacts, and gathered what they needed to defeat the ultimate bad guy.

Then I drew a map that started as a line drawing of a large sea with coastlines on three sides, and 25 or so islands scattered in the sea. Nothing more.

Then I went back to my lore and assigned locations to all those things I created. THEN I put them all on the map, making cities and other locations where I needed them for the story, describing various locations, islands, mountains, etc, as I needed them to be. Finally I wrote descriptions of the geographical elements.

If you start with a map, you limit yourself too much in creating the story.

[Bogie]

Welcome to the Guild Gleep! As I am more of a mapper than a writer, I would have the opposite view than Chick does. For me, the map would give me the ideas and inspiration of what might be there. What is important is how your process works for you, not what works for us. Try both ways or find a happy mix and have fun!