Hallo

[Coyil]

Hi all!

I have been browsing your forums for a while now and finally decided to join. Since I play a lot of pen and paper rpgs, some time back i decided to refine a crude map our DM had made for our playgroup. The result was nothing exciting, due to my limited experience with holding a pen for anything other than writing, but it did the job. Since I enjoyed the experience I began dabbling in map making andworld building, which eventually led me here (and google, mostly google). I joined the forum to get better at drawing maps and also making them more realistic looking and of course to get good inputs from cartographers with more experience.

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[rdanhenry]

Well, as with many beginning fantasy cartographers, you need to learn about how rivers work. It is a common issue, which is why this valuable thread exists: https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ead.php?t=3822 The particular issue leaping out at me is that two of your lakes have two outlets to the sea, whereas lakes only have one outlet.

[Coyil]

Looking back, this is so obvious, if only I had looked at a real map. But when I drew this map, I had rivers before I placed the lakes, and didn't really take elevation into account. Definitely something I need to look out for.