@Frosty

There are lots of Traveller sites on the web. Some offer adventure modules, some provide actual sector or character generators, and others involve ready made maps. As far as ship designs, Robert Pierce made a wonderful book of Traveller geomorphs a few years ago which can be found here https://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/ Look for the Geomorph 2.0 link on the right panel of his page. He has also had other people contribute to a growing line of ship designs. The only problem I see with them is that he designed them in an autocad program and published them in a pdf format. Eric Smith took all Pierce's pdfs, as well as adding some of his own, and converted them to pngs here https://gurpsland.no-ip.org/geomorphs/ These have a transparent background so they can be mixed and matched in a favorite graphics program, such as GIMP, Affinity Designer, Photoshop or Paint.net, to form an endless array of starship or station layouts. Both Robert's and Eric's work are for non-commercial use, I believe.

I haven't made up complete languages yet, but I have enjoyed tinkering around with individual words here and there. I guess I caught the bug from reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien a lot when I was a kid. I've employed some of them in my own book, like names for creatures or various objects which are unique to the world I created. Names like bathalisk, theralon, sironath, and the like. Character names and place names are certainly common among fantasy writers, I would think. And good names are always useful. I met Anne McCaffrey some years ago and she urged those in attendance to compile and keep a list of names which we could draw upon whenever we needed one. That practice has stuck with me all these years later, and I have lists of thousands of names I can use.

Marc Okrand is well known for creating the Klingon language for the Star Trek franchise. Being an actor and a writer, that had greatly appealed to me, but I never really had the time to develop those kinds of projects fully on my own.

The other thing I've played around with is creating my own fonts, ones that are unique to different places and people groups. I think that sort of thing can add a lot of depth to whatever stories you are writing. Tolkien certainly was masterful at doing that with his dwarf runes and elvish scripts.

@Loopysue

Yeah, but you really should sit down and watch it sometime, Sue. It's a great movie. Not to mention, it's an incredible source for great movie quotes like, "He's not dead. He's just mostly dead."

And let's not forget the wonderful sword fighting scene between Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin.

Hey all,

I created this map a few years ago for my book, but didn't have the ability at that time to finish it completely. I really like the shape of the land and some of the land features I've laid down. As you can see, I haven't maxed it out with a bunch of symbols yet. Just mainly mountains, rivers and one huge forest at this point. I've recently had more time on my hands and I want to finish it one of these days, especially as I start work on the second book of my trilogy. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts or comments as I plunge back into the task at hand.

It's about 3500 korads from east to west, and pretty much the same north and south, which works out to be about 2100 miles in each direction. This eastern continent is called Ythira, with the rest of Anarra being completely terra incognita to its inhabitants.

There are vast open grasslands to the southwest called the Plains of Kuria. Jutting out from that is the Spur of Grothos, where the blighted land of Kulnedra is home to foul hordes of Gorguls, loathsome, evil soldiers spawned long ago by Muurdra, the Fallen One. On the eastern portion of the continent, near the equator, lies the great deserts of Uu-Kesh, where rival chieftains engage in constant warfare against one another. Far to the west is the ruined kingdom of Vandikar, once home to the Keldar, noble races of Elves, now scattered across the face of Anarra into seven clans or Noble Houses by the hatred of Muurdra. Imprisoned for a thousand years with some of his mightiest minions in the Outer Darkness, the Dark One even now seeks to free himself from his prison, to once again roam the land, destroying all that is good and pure upon Anarra.

Anyway, please let me know what you think. Thanks,

Elfling

I was experimenting with creating a maze for fun. There's no particular use for this map other than learning how to do certain functions. Obviously I haven't finished putting in all the symbols and other fun stuff, but I'd appreciate any feedback you all might have to offer.