Post GOOD fantasy maps
>>92557530
still waiting on those good fantasy maps
can i upload my map?
>>92557530>Our world but the names of the cultures and nations are slightly different World building was never Howard’s strongsuit. Conan holds up solely by rule of cool.
>>92557866I don't really get what's the point of creating a world that's completely removed from our own apart from a couple of names or global map features and then say "yeah, it's totally our world in a long time past". What's the appeal? I can get ancient legends being based on what is still recognisably our own world, like greeks did, or even wanting to add a spin with some OC like atlantis, but those are all additions made to our world as a base. And yet several authors create a completely different fantasy world and try to spin it as either the past or the future of earth. Why keep the link at all?
>>92558252reminds me of Kenshi
>>92557530Don't mind if I do!
>>92558398>keep it simple, stupid>wait no not that simple
>>92557927Howard just did it because he couldn't do enough historical research to make sure his stories were historically accurate enough to him so making the Hyborian age was just a cheat so he didn't need to do a lot of research and could instead just write pulp stories for weird tales
>>92557530you first
>>92557530>Black kingdoms>Full of black people2 million IQ writing
>>92557530>Iranistan
>>92558443relatable
>>92557530>>92558252>>92558374>>92558380Why do fantasy maps look so.."compact"? In real life, the Old World is horizontal while the New World is vertical.
>>92558412trying too hard
Gonna post my two maps. First one is Tainoles'yeh a region to the north that's about 76 x 42 miles. It's got a whole bunch of undead, some elves, some dwarves, and some vikings, along with a big-ass forest that has a bunch of weird shit in it.
This one is the Dark Island, a location between two of the major continental masses. It's about 204 x 354 miles, so roughly the size of Ireland. It's got two kingdoms - a gothic French/British one and an Arabic one and a whole bunch of no-man's land in between them, including a big fuck off valley. There's some minor dwarf and elven presence, but it's mostly human. Also some lizardmen (more recently due to the actions of the party).
I guess I also have some city maps. The first one is Surleport, the capital of Baiebrume, the gothic French/British city. The place is ruled by a queen who is secretly a vampire.
And this is Khlaj-Imaq, the capital of the Jwahr-Shah Sultanate. The only problem is when I commissioned this map, I had the translations of the various districts but I've lost the translations and have no idea what they mean. I do know that 2 is the palace and 3 is the massive garden, and 7 is the temple district. 13 is some kind of merchant area.
And I might as well post the masterpiece, the world map. This one I drew myself. >>92559602this is the region in red to the north, and >>92559619this is the thing circled in the middle
>>92558891In Howard's time, very few people recognized the name "Iran". Most people knew it as Persia.
>>92559673I've noticed that a lot of "popular" authors just happen to know a bunch of old names about a particular thing and some quirks of it and then they write a story about it. Like Howard who took a lot of classical myth stuff, or Gaiman who's like "what if old thing and quirky in the real world."
>>92559736Why did you put popular in quotes as if it's a debatable label?
>>92558374This looks like a nowhere island, maybe the size of New Zealand
>>92559746Because popular is subjective>inb4Not all of us are in the Anglosphere
>>92559769>Because popular is subjectivelol ok
>>92559773And THIS is why I put in quotes, yes.
>>92558398>>92558412YAAAAWN - ah, yes, sure, very smart. No no I get the joke, yeah. Truly a worthwile contribution. Never seen that one or a dozen other variations of that same meme before. Yes you're very smart.
>>92559790YAAAAWN - ah, yes, sure, very smart. No no I get your faggotry, yeah. Truly a worthwile contribution. Never seen that one or a dozen other variations of that same post before. Yes you're very smart.
>>92559790>>92559898post maps you dweebs
Posting some I made a few years ago following a GIMP tutorial
>>92559967
>>92558483Based
>>92558374>great desert>world's desert>cannibal desert>leviathan desert>okran's desert>black desert>stenn desert>spider desert>bonedesert>desertlands
>>92557846Did we ever find out what the difference was between red and yellow levels?
>>92560414Yellow levels only have one exit; red levels have a second secret exit that branches off a different path.
>>92558252What's this from? GIS doesn't know.>>92558398Every time I see this one I think it would unironically be a cool setting.
>>92558374That map is kind of bad.
>>92557927You mean you aren't a hundred and fifteen years old and grew up when lost worlds were all the rage in pop fiction?No shit, anon.
>>92559602>>92559619>>92559626>>92559647>>92559655Very nice, and you really found your style with that last one. A refreshing combination of minimalism and child-like naivete, tempered by a mature artistic sense and an obviously deep understanding of real world topology.
>>92557846Best Mario game
>>92559769>Not all of us are in the AnglosphereEveryone who matters is.
>>92559346>Clichéayou may need a speedometer to keep up
>>92557927>>92557927>>92558443One of the point as well was to evoke a known sense of things, like ok you know just by the name that Asgard/Vanaheim are going to be vikings, that Aquilonia is going to be France, that Shem is going to be Egypt/Levantine, Iranistan, etc. This all done just with an "explicit" name you've never heard but you've already understood somehow.It's actually pretty clever in its laziness and utility.
>>92561161not as bad as this one
>>92562767whoops i mean this one
>>92557866Conan is supposed to take in Earth's past so that's expected.
>>92557846
>>92557530>dildo-shaped sea right in the middle of the continentbold choice
>>92558398>>92558412i can hear the redditors giggle when they made this. those would be fun maps. no reason to be unique for uniques sake
>>92562611no I got it
>>92557838>>92557530Both are just the old world, euroasia and africa
>>92563446Are those 'redditors' in the room with us right now, anon?
>>92560483Drehmal. Minecraft adventure map
>>92559334Part of it is autism forcing the maps to perfectly fit a square. Another part is that if the map can be definitively horizontal/vertical then it can be argued that it's very railroady.
>>92563364i didnt like this map until i realized it was meant to be an embryo.
>>92565414>Gor>goodhttps://mindstalk.net/houseplants.html
>>92565414Is this a metro map?
>>92562781That one at least has everything where it should be and in the right proportions; I don't know what the hell is going on with the other one.
>>92567327SOVL
>>92567336Yep. Floating continent worlds are kino.
>>92557530>Zamora...>Home...
>>92558443And he was right to do so. Fiction never portrays battles or fights realistically, why should a writer be arsed to adhere to real world locations and cultures when nothing else makes sense.
>>92562749ah, a fellow planetocopia connoisseur
>>92564096Conan predates warhammer so in this case the Old World is a rip off of Hyboria
>so good it makes fat losers seethe for a fucking centuryUnbelievable kino
>>92558891If you want funny, that's how Iran is being called in my native.
>>92573187I love this
>>92559334People want to maximize the amount of relevant information in the map, which inevitably leads towards shapes which fit well in a rectangle.
>>92575049https://www.reddit.com/r/BTIW/
>>92573536
>>92577855What’s beyond the third "globe"?
>>92578647The rest of the crockpot, that top bit is the lid
>>92573187>The irradiated wasteWho did it and why?
>>92577902what do the the coffee stains represent? the moons? interdimensional alignment?
Too big for 4chan. https://www.deviantart.com/screeble/art/Mundus-Carnis-map-v3-938912094
>>92564922Love that Sprance
>>92579392Coffee.https://www.reddit.com/r/ADoveTakesFlight/
>>92559602>lake lake
None better than this
>>92579409Isn't that just east asia?
>>92564990The big void in the middle makes it feel small.
Where was that last map thread that showed where people had migrated from? Someone post it!
>>92562691Aquilonia is Rome not France, it's litterally "Land of the Eagle" in ersatz Latin. If anything, Nemedia is France.
>>92564922>No commentary on the shitty N-shaped mountain dead in the middle of the mapjfc who could even design something so ersatz? Let alone publish it?!
>>92573107Beleriand is cooler
>>92557866>World building was never Howard’s strongsuit.Howard's world building had a lot of flaws, but there's a reason the world and setting still has a lot of allure with people. And the names aren't necessarily a fault in that, especially when it's supposed to be a fictional pre-history for our world.
>>92579313As with everything else in the wastes, demons.
>>92559334Maps for fantasy novels are typically shaped to fit on two pages of a paperback. Maps for videogames typically have to fit in a game engine with square cartesian coordinates and they want to pack in as much as possible. to the same map. This is especially true for older games that had to be designed around space limitations. If you've got a might and magic game where you can only fit 24 sub maps for the world, and each map is 128 squares by 128 squares, then the hidden shrine is going to be on a tucked away corner of what would be open ocean on the "southwest coast" map.
>>92558398>>92558412Reminds me of how cool reading the Mallorrean was as a kid when the adventuring party travelled off the edges of the map from the Belgariad.
I soak up tropes like a sponge
>>92587978Tropes are only bad if it is so played out and generic that it is boring. I'd rather have something tropey but very well executed than to trip into the other extreme of so much hyper novelty that a story told in the setting becomes about the setting alone.
Anyone have any good map building tool recommendations for making modern/cyberpunk city maps?
Why authors like huge interconnected continents? World of archipelagos would be far more interesting, with isolated cultures and bizarre ecosystems.
>>92588819They're all scared of getting boat terminology incorrect and looking silly
>>92558891What's so funny about that? It literally just means Land of Iranians (or Aryans).Is England, as in the Land of Angles, funny to you as well?
>>92577855Take the nipple-earth pill my friends
>>92565239lighting is very pretty
>>92588819Archipelagos look like diarrhea shits
This is one of my continents I've been working on in CC3+. feedback accepted.
>>92557530Cimmeria and Northern Pictish Wilderness look like the comfiest lands
>>92590595Pictish lands are full of evil dudes who want to kill everything & are destined to overrun the world. Cimmeria is a gloomy place with rough terrain, so melancholy that the Cimmerians are all dour joyless assholes because the sun never shines. Poitain is where it's at
>>92590570Very square
Catharsis
>>92557885Love Golden Sun's world. The fact that it's a flat world and that is plot relevant and not just a throw away detail is superb. Feels like realistic geography instead of a "we need a desert, a forest, tundra, and plains all close together" amusement park.
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>>92558398Change the name and it's actually rather good.It's hard to split the various biome without it looking strange or out of place.For example it avoid having the cold biome right next to the hot desertYou have mountain that explain why the weather would change drasticallyThe evil land is not easily reachable by sea and quite afar from anyone else.9/10would change the names
>>92559912Completely unrealistic geography, landmass would never look like that.Go back to school kiddoThe name as spot on and very inspired thought
There’s a really cool solo game for mapmaking, with a really uninspired name. Here’s one I made earlier.
>>92583755Hey, none of my players know Russian, so it worked out.
>>92588689I simply use google's my maps, ever since I saw the Shadowrun miami map posted on here, once. It's a pretty great tool. If you want to invent something whole cloth, however, can't help you, sorry.
>>92584425I assumed this was some pseudo-racist shit based off some obscure /pol/fag shit but you're actually just right.
>>92557846>>92563364
>>92567327>3 chocobo forestshere there be eggs
AaandA rare female MAP
>>92598734>went after adult women>not MAP>>92598744>zero evidence
>>92598800Nah he was a creeperClarke admitted to sleeping with young boys
>>92598800Daily Reminder
I bring turtles
And orangutans
>>92598734Fucking 20yo bimbos =/= pedophilia. Leave your Murican puritanism at the door pls.>>92598744'Jeet propaganda>>92598753Women cannot be, by definition, pedos.
>>92567855I wish GW stuck with their original setting of Titan instead of caving in to the historical grogs up in Nottingham and making their proprietary world "le-europe-but-not-europe". The consequences of that terrible decision poison fantasy to this very day.
>>92599344it was where the money was even Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone that it was generally the correct business decision
>>92597072polacks don't tend to direct their racism against East Asia.
>>92599063Her daughter disagreeshttps://youtu.be/XJBZXCweeC8?feature=sharedQuite a bit of exposure on the sci fi and fantasy scene at the time. Seems abuse was endemic
>>92557866>t. contrarian fag thinking his made up setting where gravity doesn't exist is smart
>>92558412looks comfy
>>92560414>>92560441It's explained in game using one of the information blocks everyone skipped
>>92572957He means the real place, not Warhammer.
>>92559936>walled city>space is at a premium>...>wide areas of empty space between buildings
>>92596950Absolutely perfect since I wanted to create a Cyberpunk version of my home town. Awesome and thanks anon. Never new this existed and it is almost exactly what I'm looking for.
>>92608486>>wide areas of empty space between buildingsRegulation imposed by whoever is in charge, the wide spaces work as firebreaks
>>92559967>>92559971These are actually pretty cool. Great job!
>>92559971You just did Poland and surroundings with extra mountain ranges
>>92557866it's not our world, for some reason whoever made that really hates ships and sailing so they turned it into our world reimagined as africa
>>92584033Did you make that? Some of the names are a little hard to read, but I like it.
>>92557530Was Howard the first writer to make a fantasy setting with cultures clearly based on real world ones?
I wouldn't call this a "good" map but its mine and I think its cool. My handwriting sucks. Sorry for that. The map is vertical it all takes place in a big ass pyramid floating through space. All the different floors are different regions/cities/biomes. I made this map in a night of insomnia fueled lucidity and have been running in this world for more than a year.the marks in purple are supposed to be region markers. I have a haphazardly created document with all the lore for each floor.
>>92557530Here's my own city area I scribbled into a notebook>>92608486Is this too cramped?
>>92613815yes, nobody in human history ever did that before
I know it's basically fucked up fantasy pangea but I like it.
>>92619086Supercontinents are fun. Huge landwars forever
>>92619156Oh landwars are fun. Shame 99.99% of the fights in the setting we get to see are urban.
>>92619301Modernity ruins everything
>>92619427True, though it's mostly because the writers refuse to do more than hint at the real cool shit.
>>92567855>quick Tom, whe need the most racist china expy kingdom you can think of>Kay-Pong, perfect
>>92619757just go up the kok river faggot, you'll find chiang fang there
>>92615671well I think its cool, thanks.
>>92613605Yes I made it. It's for my own donut steel knock off warhammer
>>92610222Checked and thank you>>92612364Coincidence
>>92619757You can't be racist against the Chinese since they're not people.
>>92622389Based knower.
>>92610183Firebreaks are a possibility, but that looks like a pretty haphazard arrangement for a planned settlement. More to the point, those are some very fancy and tall walls relative to what's inside.>>92615788No, but the meme of 'walled settlement built into a mountainside' is overdone. (Not as protective as it might seem, and would have problems with flooding).
>>92598916damn...i guess chuds won...
>>92587978how did you make this map? any tips? it looks fantastic.
>>92592761this looks about the size of yellowstone, if that's the scale you're going for
>>92615671reminds me of the great redoubt from the night land
>>92620602what this from? looks like a good sword and sorcery setting
>>92560268It's honestly impressive how many varied types of deserts are in game
>>92567246I was curious what the fucking is going on there and I found ithttps://www.reddit.com/r/inkarnate/comments/pvil4g/world_map_for_a_homebrew_kenshi_campaign/Some redditor adapted and homebrewed Kenshi and for some reason had to rearrange everything which is why everything is wrong
>>92558412>>92558398It's ironic how those meme loving fucks are being so unoriginal and constantly making this same "generica" joke over and over again.
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>>92558252why is there a random red bar in the northern area
>>92565414>>92567379hol' up
>>92586863>>92562691I was gonna say. I've never read Conan but the first thing I think of with the word Aquilonia is Rome, not France.
>>92565405My favorite
>>92588911>would a fantasy nation called frenchland be funny to you as well?Yes. Very.
>>92633705>>92588911kek
>>92573187good one
>>92557530Less than 10 years and it’s public domain.
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