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Do you draw them or do you have somebody else make them...or do you use mapmaking software?
I myself prefer to draw things by hand...i like it that way. Of course, my players couldn't care less, but i have fun drawing maps of worlds, cities and regions.
Here is a map for my setting (still in the works) that i chose to call grey borders...
Here Is that map. I apologize for the slight blurrynes, but i took the picture with my 2MP phone and well 2MP sucks.
When i have time, i will rummage through my papers to find some other maps i have drawn. If you find them useful, you have my permission to use them as you see fit.
Here is another one. I just found it.
I'm fond of doing google image searches for city maps and like to make use of the Paizo maps when I can find them online (aside from the ones that come in the products I buy, which I make liberal use of as well, of course). Wotc has a good supply of dungeon maps from their old map a day series (or something similar), and I've used one or two of them in my current campaign.
I avoid creating maps from scratch since I'm not good at them. I much prefer the professionally rendered ones. For Golarion I have found a map for Pitax that I'm currently using (sure as heck wish it had a key to go with it, ah well). I have used maps from other Paizo products for small towns and cities in the River Kingdoms (where my campaign is based) and they seem to be working out.
Hama, that's good work. Reminds me of Tolkien's hand drawn maps from LoTR/The Hobbit. My hand would never be steady enough to do that! Do you draw them in pencil and then ink them?
as for my own maps, since I'm currently running Kingmaker I pretty much just use what's provided there.
I do have
this interesting bit of city-work, created for a Hollow Worlds setting Pathfinder game from 2009. The city was the artifact of a long-since-gone high-tech civilization. It's based off an areal image of a corporate building.
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I do the outline in pencil and then i ink in the details. For example, i draw the outline of where the mountains should be and then draw the mountains in ink, one triangle at a time.
You should see some maps of cities i have made...sometimes i have too much free time on my hands...it shows. I'll try to find them.
Here is a town that i drew for my girlfriend. She demanded it named Happytown. And i actually used it in some of my games. It is a LG community of truly good and kind people. Nobody is even NG in that town. Everybody helps everybody and there is no crime there. You can imagine the paranoia of the characters when they first entered the town
This is the greatest city in my campaign setting. It's called Borena and it is not unlike the Free city of Greyhawk or Waterdeep. It is a major, cosmopolitan city-state, and many have tried to rule it, nobody succeeded still.
This is a pure opposite to the previous city. It is ruled by a LE theocrat, who venerates the church of an evil god (i have my own pantheon), and every action that is against the law is severely punished. Curfew is set for two hours past sunset and patrols will beat anybody who they encounter in the streets to a pulp and drag them of to jail. If you resist, they will kill you on the spot.
I'll check them out when I get home. evidently your links are blocked by hooter's "acceptable use policy". lol.
Wow, I haven't made anything with that much detail since my teens. Nice. Do you have another map somewhere that says what some of the buildings are?
Hey :)
I've made quite a few maps for my homebrew campaign world / system. Here's a link to the city of Arnor (the name's a nod to Tolkien, but has nothing to do with his Arnor: link.
I've then highlighted each city district like this: link.
And then detailed each of these districts: link (these links are unfortunaetely in danish, but I guess you get the general idea og what I'm trying to do anyway).
The city blocks are undetailed on the map, as the scale is simply to big, so they all look generally likre this: link, but in "reality" they look more like this: link
The city towers look generally like this: link
Each district then has several important sites, and some of these are then detailed. Here are som examples:
The city is placed in my homebrew world of Erdhain: link (a brief unfinished wiki in Danish can be found here).
...I sadly don't have the amount of time needed to do maps like this anymore, but I'm glad that I finished the broad strokes of my world before I got too busy :)
...one of the most painstaking jobs, were when I decided to map out the progressions of my world through its sociopolitical history - done as a series of "snapshots" of the map of the world through seven different periods in time (they can all be viewed on the wiki). That took a looong time and was a lot of work - but now I have a very good knowledge of which countries have borders where and why - and how the countries are made up of several smaller countries or peoples. Sadly I don't really get to use my homebrew world these days, as we started playing Pathfinder (Kingmaker). I do indeed enjoy playing PF - I just wished I had the time to do both :)
I forgot to say that I draw the maps by hand, ink them and then scan them. I then use photoshop to tinker with them, sometimes adding new stuff like rivers and mountains again by drawing them by hand, scanning them, cutting them out in photoshop and re-adding them to the map. It's a bit of work, but I find the result very satisfying.
The city map (Arnor) has only the major outlines done by hand, the rest has been added in photoshop. I'm estimating it took me about a hundred to a hundred and fifty work hours to do the city map. More if you count the "sites" - but they are not done yet (and might never be done), so that's a work in progress...
Here is a map of the great Khurmanian empire: link, as detailed in different country districts. This is the largest of the two empires of Erdhain - the other being the empire of the great and evil spirit Shaktul, formerly the empire of Umbalos, birth place of the faith of Orshann - as seen here: link.
Here is a higher resolution image of the world as a whole: link.
And a color coded image that details the faiths of the different regions of the world: link (still in danish, but the meaning should be quite clear...).
Hmmm... The whole post got moved by an admin it seems. I wonder if the thred will then get more replies or if even fewer will see it and respond? :)
Small regional map I made in CC3 where my PC's are currently adventuring. I can't draw for anything so having some software helps considerably. I really like how this one turned out.