Sandbox style maps?

[jpstod]

Unless, of course, they are living in and going into territory that has been mapped by relatively reliable cartographers. There are many great RPG campaigns that evolve around maps in the PCs' hands.

But are those maps true? Only way to find out...Grab a Rucksack..a Couple of friends and head out to explore.

[Robulous]

you must be kinda new to tabletop gaming

I don't think most of us use maps for playing board games, so best not to assume prior knowledge of these things.

[alhoon]

Not sure if this is the right place. it isn't a request for something to be made. I amd wondering if anyone has made sandbox style maps. stuff like king maker or west marches. I was going to use a random generator but figured it might be worth asking here for more human touched crafting.

I make sandbox style maps all the time for my D&D campaign. Using hexes (hexographer program) to give myself leeway on the terrain (i.e if I need a small forest, I can say one is there without hush). I use three different scales: 6 miles per hex, 24 miles per hex and 120 miles per hex. I make the continent in 120 miles per hex, zoom in the "campaign area" at 24 miles per hex and zoom in the "Relevant" areas of campaign arcs at 6 miles per hex.

And then cause I like doing this stuff, I zoom in other places just because I like it without expecting my campaign to head there, but that's beyond what you asked.


AS OF RANDOM GENERATORS: I am going to make a thread about them. I haven't found one that I liked... till I made one. Although the one I made doesn't use procedural generation algorithms, but unconstrained simulation methods.
And of course, every random map needs a bit of work afterwards.