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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
    
Mud Lick, Kentucky
 | | 05/19/2008 7:40 AM |
| I love to draw maps but don't have the time to hand draw much anymore so I go looking for inspiration. One of my biggest inspirations is our very own little planet earth. What I do is find an interesting area and either mapquest or google map it and then do some print screens and a little cut and paste into MS Paint until I come up with something like this.
For me interesting maps include water and varied coastlines. Lots of jagged coast with peninsulas and inlets. Usually the final map won't be just what you see above but will be modified in areas according to my tastes.
And with the sorry state of geography education in this country these days, none of the players will know they are really adventuring in Michigan.
Well, except Vreck.
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WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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| The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
Mud Lick, Kentucky
| | 05/19/2008 7:45 AM |
| Here's one based on an area of Canada with a buch of lakes.
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WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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| The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
Mud Lick, Kentucky
| | 05/19/2008 7:47 AM |
| And finally one based on the Chesapeake Bay
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WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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Zenako
Commander
3472 Posts
| | 05/19/2008 12:18 PM |
| nice captures...
I used to use some Topo maps I picked up cheap for some locals for actual adventures. Some maps stores clearance out seldom used maps and they often had some interesting geology that makes for fun questing. (I was almost a Geology major for a few yers until I went Materials Science/Metallurgy so the descriptions of rock formations from me tend to be someone .... ahem ..... involved and detailed, with the goal of providing clues to the players about what might lie ahead... | |
Built the addition for this addiction, now on to the "gaming table" project....
http://www.maxminis.com/hw_list.asp?user=Zenako last updated 29 May 2006
Set Status: in a nutshell = all of all
In Process trades 0), (Sig last updated 05/29/06) 300 plus Completed Trades -
If I seem scarce at times...blame DDO - Sarlona | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11113 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 05/19/2008 10:06 PM |
| Neat! I used to spend most of my time getting tready for a game by drawing maps up. Cool little shortcut there....
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Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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stephengroy
Underboss
1440 Posts
Tempe AZ Beeyotch
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