Jörðgarð Map of Week #264 - Astmundur's and Torfheiður's Isle

[ladiestorm]

If may stick my nose into this conversation, I would say that this is what makes each of us unique. Mark, you are absolutely fantastic at creating the resources, that the rest of us use to do what we do. Not just for your own games, but for all of us.

My own maps wouldn't be half as good as they are, if it weren't for the resources (and the guidance!) you've provided the last five months.

And Mouse, your maps may be for a book, and that's perfectly fine, but your maps could become gaming maps easily. Especially the city map you're working on, and the observatory you've recently finished. Your maps have a multi purpose quality and a beauty that makes others want to do D a reason to use them.

And mine? Well, hopefully my maps open up story ideas for the people that see them. Mark, you once said that what you like about my maps is that you can see a story in them. You may not know what the story is, but you know it's there. There are two reasons for that. One, obviously because my maps are for a specific campaign, so I'm embedding clues into my maps, to help my players, and to help move the story along.

But a GM could come along and see one of my maps, wonder about the story my clues provide, and start coming g up with his/her own answers as to what the story is. Next thing you know...he's come up with an idea for his own players.

I would say it's the need that is the root and trunk of the tree, and we are all its many branches, and fruit, fulfilling whatever niche our maps fit Into.

[Mark Oliva]

I would say it's the need that is the root and trunk of the tree, and we are all its many branches, and fruit, fulfilling whatever niche our maps fit Into.

Gee golly whillikers, LadieStorm. This is the second time within a few days that you put a trump card on top of my ace of spades!

[ladiestorm]

Lol...is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Sorry to get all philosophical on you, but you know I'm a poet, and poets.tend to be philosphers

[Mark Oliva]

Lol...is that a good thing or a bad thing?

In Schafskopf (Sheephead card game, in the U.S.A. known mostly only in Wisconsin), a diamond trump card will beat the ace of spades. That doesn't tell you, of course, whether I still have the black queen hidden in my hand. But from the view of the person who plays the trump card, that usually is a good thing.

Your task now, as a poet, is to set the above into artistic verse. Of course, I have no idea whether that would be a good or a bad thing. But with my tossing the question of the black queen into the pot, it might have potential.