Thoughts on this map?
what happens there? Any interesting nations, races and plot hooks?
>>98581518>designs part of it to look like a high heeled bootDoes the GM have a foot fetish?
>>98581518Central norhern region is obviously the only part of the world creator cares the most due to its detailed shapes. I bet it is a local "Sword Coast".
>>98581525There's the north and south aeurobrian empires that are separated by the equator.>>98581552Yeah, the north is more interesting and diverse. The south is kinda like african china.
>>98581518There are some archipelagoes. They could be used for, say, pirate adventures.That big island/continent to the south east could be some sort of Mu/Lemuria with all kinds of grotesque pre-human monstrosities and degenerated (pre?)humans.
>>98581617Pretty much. They even have a bit of an empire of their own where the priests eat the firstborn of the family! Total savages compared to the rest of the world.
>>98581624I like that idea!The any lore on the western continents?There seem to be some large plains there.
>>98581518whats up with the dinosaur looking island above the larger one to the right?Don't tell me thats the dinosaur island where dragons and shit lives?
>>98581552>detailed shapes"jaggy bullshit that would never form in real life" is not detail.
>>98581633Up north, it's mostly wandering horseback tribes, but there's a corn-farming civilization around the great river of the southeast. They build mounds instead of pyramids, so that's that too.The western edge of the southern rainforest has its own chinese dynasties going on, with many having risen and fallen over the times, with its mantle sometimes taken by mountaineers from the west and jungle savages from the east. I also think there's a bit of civilization going on in the very southern parts as well. Llama herding potato lovers, probably.
>>98581518This kinda makes it look like the US is 80% desert
>>98581729So what about the equatorial areas?Lovecraft orRobert E Howard style ruins with untold horrors and few rewards except forbidden knowledge?Or jungle ogres who fight Viet Cong-style against all intruders?
>>98581772All equatorial jungles have their own pygmy humans, some less human than the others. The central jungles of the south-western continent have some especially weird stuff going on, being populated by degenerate posthuman dwarves with green, slimy skin, who prevent any others from approaching a certain point in the deepest jungle. Many warriors and generals from the west and east have attempted to defeat them, but none have been successful so far.
The rainfall patterns don't make sense given where the mountains are.No fun allowed.png
>>98581518The glaciers highlight some beautiful fjords in the north and the south, but the middle continent could use way more of them. I bet whoever made this is a real hoopy frood and hope he fixes his mistake in version 2.0.
>>98581830>Faggot can't read where what currents go from rainfall patterns aloneFiltered hard
>>98581518>Submission Flagged For Plagarism
>>98581518Man, that big continent in the middle where it's always warm and there are tons of natural resources like salt and gold must be rich as all hell.
>>98581518Fun thread.
>>98581518...why is everything so penisy?
>>98582529>consistently disrupt the development of a nation for 300 years>why aren't they rich while we interfere with their nation to steal their resources?!Euro logic.
>>98582678But why didn't they have a strong enough military from all their wealth and land? This seems like inconsistent world building.
>>98582685>bro didn't read the booksohnononono
>>98581518Fucking hate kitchen sink settings.Oh, there a whole continent that is nothing but ice? Bullshit world building. Nature doesn't do single climate biomes like that, you fucking hack.Physical differences in humanoids based on the region they are in? That's a dog whistle for white supremacy retards.You mean the population figured out how to harness the sun for essentially free and unlimited power but instead uses costly material for energy production? Garbage setting. Tech adoption would surely have eliminated the inferior energy source.A desert region known for wars, a history of slavery, and barbarism? Way to rip off Dark Sun, retard.0/10. I hate it and it was clearly designed by an absolute retard.
>>98581518I don't get the world building. They have dwarves, they have an entire continent of orcs but no elves? If you're going to be a blatant Tolkien rip off then fine but why stop halfway?
>>98582529wewux vs chuds aside, I think people don't really get what "natural resources" mean. There has been a distintive lack of metal-based superpowers since, I dunno, the hittites.
>>98583191>There has been a distintive lack of metal-based superpowers since, I dunno, the hittites.
>>98583470Yes, none of these countries based their economy on metals. Thanks for making that even clearer.
>>98582529>>98582678The south aeurobian empire is rotting from the inside because of its insularity, so that's that. If it doesn't get its shit together, we all know what's going to happen.>>98582989Elfdom is achieved, not given.
>>98581766it presumably would be, assuming you read the words on the map
>>98584567okay what about the north then?
>>98584901It used to be the southern part of the northern empire, below the middle ocean, that used to lead the empire. But of course, the northern part became a refuge for novel ideas thanks to its geography. Eventually, after a civil war of untold proportions, the northern barbarians took control of the south’s riches.
>>98581518>"The world's in great shape"
>>98582685Because most socities aren't foaming at the mouth violent brutes. Same reason Europes lost control, they self imploded due to their violent culture.
>>98582619i like how 90% of the replies didn't notice that's not a map of earth
>>98581518Looks like shitty jeet ai sloppa.
TERRIBLE skewmorphism!!!! you're laying a spherical shape into a 2d plane, its sloppy DMing (and frankly disrespectful to your work!) if youre like "eh this morphing is good enough" while you completely misrepresent the tundric lands to your players. if the party is traveling from Salekhard to Tiksi in Siberia and using that map, theyre planning for like double the travel time than would be actually required.pic attached is far better, but i still dislike it. i only use a globe at my table, its a few inches tall and i put my hand on it like a cursed orb to freak out my players sometimes.
>>98581518No dinosaurs/10 what's the point?
>>98585981They're still around in the southeastern island continent, and it's not just birds, either.
>for the irrelevant price of turning britain into an iceberg and the continental united states into a desert, we could turn all of africa and the middle east wet and fertileWell, it would be a lot more habitable land I guess. Seems worth it to me.
>>98585744>i like how 90% of the replies didn't notice that's not a map of earth
>>98581518What the fuck is that giant white thing at the bottom? Are you telling me there's just a massive block of ice bigger than any continent there?
>>98588369"Retrograde Earth". It's biomes if Earth spun backwards. That's why all of the Great Plains are in the Rockies' rain shadow.
>>98588369you're right, it's closer to 99%
>>98581518decent maphorrible projection
>>98582678>fail to accomplish anything for thousands of years before colonialism and decades after independence>noooo this is wypipo's fault!!Afro logic
>>98589962mercator give me your strongest projection!
>>98582529It turns out complex societies actually develop on alluvial floodplains and not above bauxite.
>>98584567>>98584965>Africa gets the short end of the stick even in retrograde earth
>>98582678They had thousands of years to accomplish anything with the most fertile and resource rich land in the worldThey spent that time squatting in mud huts and occasionally eating each other.
>>98590598Can't have shit in Africa.
>>98582529>He wouldn't give a girl a cow
>>98582529Muhoozi sounds based as fuck
>>98582678>300 years>out of at least 20 000Good joke. Also note that they have been fully capable of recovering for the last 100 and it's only gotten worse. The only time Africa was truly improving was under colonialism, and by every account they had to be dragged into it and constantly supervised. Even today we cannot just give them things because they will immediately dismantle it because they want to go home early or have no plans for next week, next month, next year.Nevermind that places like Liberia and Ethiopia were never under the thumb of colonialism at all, and they are some of the shittiest places. South Africa was a country to rival any European nation, and it has been completely destroyed by the influx of a multi-ethnic rainbow slew of every African ethnicity under the sun - apartheid was instituted to deal with it and when it was disbanded the dam finally broke.You're a fucking retard that thinks of "Africa" as some kind of disadvantaged singular country, when in reality it is an incredibly large and incredibly rich continent with a large number of different states with very different experiences. The only thing all the sub-Saharan territories have in common is that they are all populated by sub-Saharans, and they are all shit.
>>98590748>and occasionally eating each otherIt wasn't even occasionally. It was by all accounts a widespread practice in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa, and despite concerted efforts by the British, the French, etc., to stamp it out, it is still shockingly common albeit to a somewhat limited degree (more as symbolic acts than anything else).It's very similar to the incestuous practices of the Australian Aboriginals, where we have accounts of European colonials literally pulling shit-covered aboriginal adults off of their own children, because they'd just kind of stop in the middle of the day and rape whatever was nearby. They didn't even have an understanding of where children came from, it was just something that kinda happened.It is commonly underestimated just how primitive these peoples were, because the accounts are not commonly discussed, because the reality as they described it is considered "racism" today, even though they had no reason whatsoever to lie or make things up.
pretty commonplace in all the worst ways> only a handful of places have actual culture while the others are different variations of boring religious zealots and/or comically evil> fans of said others will still insist on defending them yet hate on the actual cultured peoples for doing something 1/10th as bad
>>98591371>liberia>not colonizedEr, I get the feeling that starting out as a colony kinda counts.
>>98591392Gotta root for the underdogs, you know.
>>98582678>300.000 years of wakanda>300 years of wypipoDas rite. Dey crackaz stole diesls machines and suffisticcated social organasatianal skeels from our kangcestors when dey finna run up in dem boats 300 years ago. We wuz wakanda n shiiee.
>>98591543Yup. It says so in this book written by comically evil religious zealots that they tricked us into believing in.
>>98581539It's just one part of a massive map. I think we can excuse it since it's not like it'll be the capital of the main power for a thousand years of campaign gameplay or something.
