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they are easy to distribute to players, either in full or partial form.I still draw with fineline markers and color with colored pencils, but making digital maps has several advantages: My own personal forays into fantasy RPG mapping and world design began during the heyday of the Darlene Maps, and greatly influenced the way I draw my own hand-drawn maps.
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A small portion of the Darlene Greyhawk Map is shown in the 3rd image above. These maps were drawn by Darlene, so these maps are usually called the " Darlene Maps." They are somehwere between the modern organic mapping style and the hex-icon style, and inspire great nostalgia. The first published campaign world for D&D was the World of Greyhawk, which came with two poster-sized maps that formed one larger map of the world when hung side-by-side. The first maps, like those in the classic B/X D&D editions (which eventually became the world of Mystara) were based on repeated icons centered in hexes (the 2nd, black and white map above). In the earliest RPG games, world maps were drawn on hex paper, making it easy to have overland adventures and encounters.
#Campaign cartographer 3 tutorial pdf software#
One current popular style of mapping is organic and natural looking maps drawn on blank paper, with landscapes and designs flowing wherever your pen flows (a software example from Wonderdraft is shown in the first picture above). Two highly regarded ones are Wonderdraft (runs on all platforms, including Macintosh), and Campaign Cartographer (runs on Windows only). I find a certain amount of meditative relaxation in the careful precise work of map creation, one element at a time.įor quick maps, with rapid organic design and more " random control" by your computer, I direct your attention to many of the excellent electronic mapping software packages for this purpose. The mapping described in this Instructable is time-intensive compared to many modern software methods, but not more time-consuming than my original hand-drawn method it is replicating.
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This Instructable is about creating digital maps that follow a classic style known as the " Darlene Style" which gaming afficionados will recognize as the style of the original World of Greyhawk maps. Instructables has many great tutorials on different approaches to creating maps for fantasy worlds, which you can find by searching on " fantasy map" or " RPG map". Many of us who develop interests in fantasy cartography often start drawing our own maps of exotic elsewheres for gameplay, for novel or story writing, or for simple enjoyment. If you play table top role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, or read fantasy novels, you may have developed an interest in fantasy world maps.