So this is my (almost finished) WIP map.

It was inspired by a Tolkien style map of Scotland by Callum Ogden and created by roughly following the instructions/resources from his page.

It's being made for a D&D game, and it's helping me lay out the world and it's politics and structure (which the players will ignore as they wander around murdering things).

I've tried to do a lot of things with one map and the results are...functional, but sometimes a little messier than I'd like. I'm struggling to make place names stand out on a world map, so I'm going to split the names into different layers - Countries/geographic features in huge letters for the overall map and the names of smaller places on a different layer so I can zoom in at any point and make a regional map for the player's location. (started to make a layer for roads as well that make the world map too busy if they're shown when zoomed out).

Here's the overall world:

map5-parchment-small.jpg

Here is the global map with borders:

map5-Borders-small.jpg

Any feedback/tips would be appreciated. I'm pretty happy with the map overall, but I'd love to hear and critisims/feedback on how to make it better.

Mike