Hallo Guild

I created that account some years ago, because I wanted to draw a map for "my" fantasy world. But it was not that easy as I thaught so I had a (long ._.) break. Now I want to start again and read diffrent topics and tutorials and browse through finished maps (I startet last week with reading...). And there is sooooooo much information!

It starts with "what medium you want to use?" and ends at "the climate conditions and tectonics of your world" (and maybe it doesn't end there because there are threads about changing townnames because of time and changing inhabitants...). And its so complicated. In my naive mind I thaught "I only want a simple map!" *sigh*
Is all this really necessary? Tectonics? Climate conditions (like anticyclone and depressions in diffrent seasons)?

Is it possible to create a world without all these sciences?
Or is a whole world maybe to much to start with? And I should start with one region of my world? (But wouldn't it be difficult to place that region later in the world?)

~ Nightdragon

PS.: I know I have to chose a medium to draw with, and I know I have to place mountains to have reasonable rivers and lakes