Thanks for all the great comments, and I am heavily influenced by Tolkien, and my world is inspired by his works. Someone read my world history once and laughed and said it's just like Tolkien (which they meant as a put down). It's very different to Tolkien, but I want the feel of it to be Tolkien so I took the put down as high praise indeed.

@Ricko Hasche I will try to do a vid soon showing how I go about doing coastlines and islands if that will be any help.

Dak

@Frosty I got it from a vid from Joe Sweeney at his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2M8vLJEDk0&list=PLX_qe1x-2Ys6J8_rCaX0MLbeDKvSEDuxZ&index=12

I use this basic technique but I think I have my settings slightly different to Joe's. I use Edge Fade Inner with an Inner Opacity of 25% and an Outer Opacity of 75%. It's in Map Units and High Quality. The edge Width is 20 units but this is the number I change the most as it dictates the size of the darker border, and because this map covers a huge area this number is higher than from a map that focuses on a single country for example.

I have the borders on several sheets as whenever a border is against another border you don't get the line separating those borders if they are on the same sheet.

I also did a map making tutorial on my twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1738843513?filter=all&sort=time but unfortunately the quality is not as good as it should be but if you can follow what I'm doing you should be able to replicate for your own maps. The borders info' starts at about 18-19 minutes in.

Dak

It looks awesome

Hello everybody,

I've just finished these maps of my main D&D continent. I have run several campaigns in these lands.

The North is a medieval European based society although the terrain is more like North America.

The South is a medieval Arabian based society.

It's taken me long enough to do this map, I've been plugging away at it for over 4 years.

Dak.

And here are the nations within the lands circa 1200's (human calendar) or 4000's (elvish calender).

Hello everybody,

Here is a map from my main AD&D world. I'm using it as the map to set the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign in. It will be a 5th ed campaign. It is a classic feudal age setting, with an older empire that has broken into several kingdoms which are now threatened by giant tribes in the north, and an orc empire to the south.