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Gaelic influenced lands
I noticed you were making maps based on Ireland when I looked at your excellent gallery.
I only use mythological themes tentatively, I'll take a name or a concept but don't feel any need to follow the mythology after that and try to put my own mark upon it.
I want my games to have the feel of say bronze age Ireland, or feudal Japan, or whatever, but I don't feel tied to history or legend.
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Gaelic influenced lands
This is another land (island) from my campaign world. The island lies to the east of Elloran and is one of the Eilean islands. It is inspired by Gaelic culture (Irish and Scottish Gaelic), and Tolkien's original stories (before LOTR was published), as well as by the AD+D Moonshae supplement by Douglas Niles. It is where the great kings of humans and their descendants originate from.
In Role playing terms it is almost the perfect land to set an AD+D game in. All the demi-human races have a homeland here (even the halflings). Barbarian invaders and migrants from Fomorria have occupied the northern part of the island, and the interior is overrun by goblinoids.
This is also the seat of power of the Tolari Gnomes. They are more akin to elves and men than traditional AD+D gnomes, and they mine the rare white metal Aulor which they use to forge their armour and weapons.
Their Capitol is Torlandis and the seven great sidhes.
I have included the full map, a terrain map, and the original map I used as a trace. I can't remember when I drew the original but I'm fairly sure it was over 20 years ago.
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My 1st Dungeon
Inspired by the fantastic looking dungeons here, I thought it was time I tried to use the dungeon making tools. So here is my 1st attempt. By watching a vid' by Josh Plunkett, and reading the dungeons of Schley instructions, I managed to include everything I wanted to on the map.
This is taken from White Dwarf issue 52 April 84, from the adventure "The Serpent's Venom" by Liz Fletcher.
It is the dungeon that goes with the last small-scale overland map I made, for Overdale.
I have done 2 maps, 1 for dungeon masters, and 1 for use in roll20.
Any tips for improvement would be appreciated.
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Small terrain map
This is the first map I made for the very first game of AD+D I ran as a DM (I can't believe I still have it), it must be after April 1984 as the adventure I ran was from White Dwarf of that year and month. The map still has the notes I added to it during the game.
I thought it would be nice to give it the CC3+ treatment, so I did two new maps, one in M Schley overland, and the other in M Schley cities. I'm not sure either scale is suitable as the map seems to be about 30 miles in length. I'm thinking of running this as a one off in roll20 as my first attempt to DM there.
Any suggestions for improvement on either map would be appreciated.
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New Map
I made this the best res' I could, and turned the smaller text on to see how it looks when uploaded. I probably have a few more names to put on this map and the rivers of course, which is criminal as I invented the river names for most of Elloran (certainly all of eastern Elloran) about 30 years ago.










