So this is The Lost Coast, my first proper "world" map for an upcoming DnD game I am running.

I've never really had a proper crack at mapping out a region before, I've been working within a published setting and just making my own dungeon and battle maps but I really wanted to have a go at crafting my own little world.

This particular version is going to be my draft, just putting together some features and seeing what it all comes out like, then I will go back and tighten up the geography to make it feel (hopefully) interesting and believable as a real place.

The basic premise is that this region was once the seat of an ancient empire, now completely fallen into ruin and long since forgotten. There's very little civilization, mostly deserted cities with tribes of wild natives living there won't be much of a road network. I'm liking my mountain range as a natural barrier to keep the setting focused on the coast for now. I'd like to ask for any opinions on the layout in general, if anybody has them. I have a tendency to naturally want to clutter absolutely everything so I think I've been a little sparse in places. The southern area with the large forest needs a big overhaul to do something interesting with it and I might make the very light tundra creeping off the northern mountains a little more pronounced.

Also, any advice on rivers! I really suck at rivers. I know they come off mountains towards the sea but they never seem to look natural when I've been drawing them.

Any thoughts, criticism, that sort of thing for when I tackle the second draft?

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