We're starting a new campaign for our annual "LakeCon" this year, and the first GM in our round-robin rotation asked me for a map. The setting is an alternate history Britain/Scotland/Ireland, about 150 years after the Romans left. I'm pretty happy with this one. Everything is from the new Fractal Parchment World style, with the exception of the trees - they're from the 2022 Jon Roberts Revisited style. The mist/clouds over the mysterious fae lands of Hibernia were added in post production in Affinity Photo.

The final map for the group I exported as a layered PDF so that the mist can be turned off if/when we need a clear view of the fae lands.

Gallery Link (Hi-Res Image, w/ Misty Hybernia)

Gallery Link (Hi-Res Image, w/ Clear Hybernia)

Good morning! (At least, it's morning here in the States).

Thanks in large part to Ricko Hasche recruiting me to map his homebrew world, my desire to make my own overland mapping style finally coincided with my energy level and enthusiasm (and with my available time), so I decided to see if I could turn my world Sihjul into a formal mapping style.

Here's what I came up with. I think I've gotten it all set up so that it will work for anyone, but I've never done this before so there might be wrinkles. If anyone decides to try it out and discovers something that doesn't work, please let me know and I'll try to figure out how to fix it.

Do note that while this defaults to whole world mapping, there should be no issues with using it for area maps smaller than a world, or for worlds other than earth size (Sihjul is only a little over half the size of earth).

To start, just unzip the attached file to your desktop. Within it, you'll find all of the symbol catalogues and drawtools, as well as the map template, notes, and icon. There's also a meager attempt at a mapping guide, which includes instructions about where to copy all of those files to so that it will work. (There are no unique assets in this style - everything you need is available through CC3+, a couple of annuals, and the free add-ons).

Finally, as a test case I started a map of earth that I'm attaching. I've got the land masses put in, as well as the map "dressing." I filled in the United States area, and left the rest of the world blank so that anyone who wants to practice the style can just use this map if they want to. It might be fun for folks to fill in different areas and post the results here in this thread…

I hope some of you find this useful and enjoy putting the style to work!

Apologies for the necro - I didn't want to start a whole new thread for what's really just a refining of an old map.

I decided to circle back around to this map and do a little more work. When I "spun it out" as a globe, I realized that while I wanted "The Lethal Deeps" to be vast, I didn't want them quite as large as I had them. I decided to make my land masses a bit larger, add a couple of island groups into the deeps, and to put an ice cap on the southern pole.

I've also fleshed out the continents and oceans with a some names.

I'd love to also post the spinning globe here - is it possible to post animated GIF files?

Larger versions in my gallery.

https://forum.profantasy.com/profile/gallery/3036/Maidhc%20O%20Casain/35

A while back I thought I'd finished up a map of the world I'd been working on for a LONG time. I've always had grand dreams of what I'd do with that map - of the world I'd build from it - but those dreams were stymied by… well, by lots of things. Lack of what I considered to be really good ideas, lack of direction, lack of confidence. You get the idea.

Something clicked, though, a few months ago, and I finally started writing. Fast forward to now, through lots of work, learning about self-publication and print-on-demand, and making a ton of mistakes along the way, and I'm not quite halfway finished. I think.

I've got the creation myths wrapped up, the gods and races, the languages - all the stuff that sits quietly in the back seat and drives the rest.

Since it started with a map, and since I'm pretty happy with what I've done so far (even if it never really does go to POD or anywhere else), I thought I'd show it off a little. (Even though I'm "showing off," please, please, please do feel free to bash it around and tell me how I can make it better!)

While I loved the color palette of the original map it's far too colorful for the aged parchment look that I've ended up with, so I changed the style to Parchment World.

Below is an image of the two page spread of the PDF where I'm placing the map.

The original map is in my gallery here: https://forum.profantasy.com/galleryviewer/35/29621

Higher resolution image of the pages below are here: https://forum.profantasy.com/galleryviewer/35/37464

I stumbled across this gem in my recommendations on Amazon. I'd never heard of it before, and just in case anyone on these forums has missed it I thought I'd post it up. Fascinating stuff!

Callum's Curiosity - Contest Entry / Atlas Contribution

Quick cat hijack, since they've been mentioned in this thread :D

Owen Underfoot is the latest member of our family... Right now he's not too much of a barrier to map making, but I think he's gonna be a big boy before he stops growing.

I play mostly on Myth Weavers (an online forum designed for RPG) now through the main part of the year. I get together every year in October with a group of friends of 40+ years for a 4 day face to face session mixed with a lot of laughter, great food (we cook every meal together), drinks, and the occasional poker game. We're scattered across the U.S. now, but it's such a great time that some of the group make the 13+ hour drive and a couple of us fly in for it. This past October was the 18th annual "Cabin & Dragon - Spirits of LakeCon" gathering. For our 10th I got an architectural rendering of the cabin where we congregate and did t-shirts (first pic), and for our 15th we designed a logo (second pic). 'Cause, yeah 😁.

We've jokingly talked about starting a distillery and branding "Cabin & Dragon" bourbon…

I'd likely be up for an occasional VTT game! I don't have any subscriptions, but could maybe get one or I do have Foundry (which is a one time license rather than a subscription).

Area 14 (dubbed Faeridge) is complete and ready for submission:

Faeridge feels pretty well complete to me. I changed out the tree and added in a few gardens. I'm afraid that if I put much more it will start to feel cluttered. I also changed the font to JLC Ancient (from Character Artist 3), and I believe that this should work for the Atlas now. Please let me know if there are any other suggestions for improvements!