Comments on: D&D Instant World Builder – Part 1: Maps

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Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:53:44 +0000

[...] going to write, take notes, and tweak a module, wouldn’t it be better to just create one? Creating your own maps and scenes can be just as fast as reading and studying [...]

By: Rakko Wakke

Rakko Wakke — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:31:33 +0000

I have created literaly dozens of world maps with realistic coastline, detailed mountain ranges, and every lake , river, desert…blah, blah, blah, ect… Though none of them found any real place, but then it hit me. Take the 22 (yes i counted) world maps and put them all together into one colossal world. so far i have “DMed” two campains levels 1-30 and am on campain three level 12 with plenty of room for more.
Just a tip for people who have 8 maps and cant decide.
PS. if your wondering, we do play very often because we’re all 15 years old and only two of us accualy have girlfriends. im single -_-

By: bert

bert — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:34:22 +0000

I am starting a new campian with ppl who are new the the game and i am trying to come up with a free form game play for an entire world with 11pp and they r going to play in the same world but in diff places how do i allow evil chars and good chars interact and still have both chars alive to fight in a continued conflict kind of like magneto and prof X

By: DMmike

DMmike — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:58:13 +0000

i need some good software for maping, something simple, something free. i’m not talking super 3d and stuff. you know, something like this http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:R-Tml6Nr2FjbQM:http://bp0.blogger.com/_lpL870wV2A4/RtQH5eR1T0I/AAAAAAAABRI/dPlFvRIm2VE/s400/zonemap.jpg
old school mapping, spiral staircases, secret doors.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:52:33 +0000

I’m the GM of a D&D group at my high school, and I’ve recently started preparation for the next year and recently had an idea for a map that has worked out really well for me. First, sorry to comment on an ancient post but you recently linked to this.
What I did was take the map of the school that we go to, it’s one of those types that has a bunch of small buildings, scaled it up to the size of a world, and worked from there. Things like a small stream become a raging river, and a small lawn becomes an expansive fertile plain. On another layer I took the purposes of the buildings to make particular landmarks, for instance the science building is going to be a currently latent steampunk city, the main academic building The Omniversity, so on and so forth. It really makes it easy to have defined themes for certain areas.
Know this doesn’t mean you can’t add in things that aren’t at your school. To start with I just zoomed in on one small section and begin planning from there.