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thecrazyworldbuilder · 1 year

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A tutorial on a (bit cheating) way of creating fictional maps.

Open your editing software (RECOMMENDING Krita, since it's free and it's very good).

Step 1: Google "X country silhouette" and copy it.

Paste it onto the canvas.

Step 2: Separate the silhouette from the background you copied with it! You can do that by using magic wand selection tool or by making a gradient map with black on 49,9% and transparent on 50% on the slider.

Step 3: Repeat several times with numerous countries and/or islands, cities, municipalities, communes, continents et cetera.

Step 4: Combine, mesh, stretch, rotate, mirror - go ham, make it work.

Step 5: Erase and add.

Step 6: Have your map outline ready, copy/paste it several times in the same doc on different layers and edit in different ways like biomes, kingdoms, mountains and other.

Step Mountains+: To figure out mountains, make another layer on the doc and do something like this:

-and then in every polygon you add an arrow.

Where arrows meet or transfer onto continents, add mountains.

Color the sea with a couple layers of depth and you're done :D

#cartography #making maps #fantasy world #making fantasy maps #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding map #map #maps

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coochieholder · 2 months

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My life is deteriorating but atleast I

Have pink glossy lips!

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callumogden · 1 year

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I made a set of Tolkien inspired fantasy maps of real-world locations including Scotland, the UK and Ireland, Europe, New England and North America for fun but turns out people like using them in their games so, here's how you can find them!

You can download copies of all these maps for free with or without labels for printing or use in your TTRPGs over on my Tumblr page here:

Fantasy Maps in a Tolkien Style

You can also buy prints of these maps on my Redbubble page :

If you would like to use these in a commercial project, drop me a DM and I'd love to chat!

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peopleareaproblem · 2 months

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Some "minor" things from the Carlos Luna summary that have popped up in Junior Year:

the original Shrimp Party

Fig never going to class

Porter telling Fig she's good at rage

I assume these things got mentions in the summary specifically because they reappeared in Junior Year, so I combed through the video again looking for more "unnecessary" details...

General weirdly specific stuff:

we see Madam Silvaine's character card, even though she's a very minor NPC

the gang maybe went a bit too far while interrogating Biz

Gorgug was fed a flower by Telemaine

Ragh was hooking up with Fathethriel

Fathethriel helped Aelwyn trick the Bad Kids

Arianwen:

Arianwen taught at Hudol

frequent focus on Arianwen and her character art

Gilear:

Gilear couldn't become the guidance counsellor because Jawbone got that job

Gilear was living in Hallariel's garage

Gilear briefly died

Fabian was having visions of turning Gilear-esque in the future

we haven't seen Gilear in a while huh? everyone forgot him

Gilear was in the wheel well

"Fig's dads have the worst luck" (direct quote)

Gilear finds the sin armors, refuses to put on the kink armor

Gilear dies twice in Hell

Gilear has to stay out of the Forest of the Nightmare King because they can't keep spending their diamonds revivifying him

after saving the day, Gilear got a little proud in the pride armor and died

Those sure are a lot of minor details about a character who hasn't been in Junior Year since his brief appearance in episode 3, huh?

#I maintain that Gilear was replaced by a doppelganget and is trapped in the pride armor or something #all those details would make anyone furious too tbh #gilear might have tons of repressed rage perhaps #and i do thing arianwen is coming back #also fathethriel and naradriel are for sure in cahoots i don't trust those guys #and wasn't there an ad for The Gilded Coin on the Elmville map?#ok i checked and yes there is #the same map that we already know has clues on it bc of the Copperkettle Real Estate ad #anyway #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers

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my-craft · 1 year

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Mana: Land of the four seas and home of the Riptide Pirates

Other versions without the ocean color under the cut!

The islands are not exactly to scale, but I wanted to make sure they were visible. I’ll try to make edits as they visit more islands to try and keep this updated!

And click for the details! Tumblr loves eating the quality

#just roll with it #jrwi #mana #riptide pirates #just roll with it fanart #jrwi fanart #thank you to everyone who helped with this #it really means a lot #fantasy maps #dungeons and dragons #my art #griff art #not bad for my first time making a map!#there were so many mountains #hats off to jrwiblr #i see you and appreciate you #it’s a world yall

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ahedderick · 9 months

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So, gamers, worldbuilders, writers, and whoever else may be interested in fake maps: please note that the very finest in fake maps for your fantasy world would be:

(little TA-DA noise)

COW SPOTS.

Also, the map can be reversed from brown-land and white-water to brown-water and white-land. Either one is a complex and compelling world. Throw a few mountain ranges in there and a desert or two; Boom! I give you, the Isle (sea, continent, enchanted land) of Guernsey.

#map making #mapmaking #worldbuilding #fantasy world #writeblr #gaming #fantasy #map

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piratequeen1017 · 2 months

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Made significant progress in my world building pursuits and it made me want to share so look, I did thing.

#dnd #d&d #pathfinder #pathfinder 2e #dungeons and dragons #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding #game master #ttrpg #fantasy maps #map making #maps #worldographer

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fantasy-cartographing · 5 months

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For as long as I can remember, one of my favorite things in fantasy writing and reading, is the map in the beginning of the book.

My friends and I always make the joke, you know it will be a good story when there is a map in the beginning!

So imagine my happiness when I discover Inkarnate and can unleash the creative part of me who loves fantasy maps and world building!

That is what this blog is dedicated to!

~Above is some of the maps I envied and referenced through my favorite reads in my life~

#fantasy #world building #fantasy art #fantasy worldbuilding #high fantasy #fantasy map #maps #map making #dark fantasy #fantasy world #fantasy cartography #cartography #inkarnate

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elderscrollsconceptart · 2 months

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Map of Stros M'kai

Map shipped with copies of The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

Art by Hugh Riley

#Hugh Riley #art #the elder scrolls #concept art #tes #hammerfell #redguard #stros m'kai #map #maps #map making #fantasy map

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d20-ritz-stimzz · 1 year

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" You're allowed to be a complex person. "

🏕 🌲 🌳 × 🌲 🌳 🌲 × 🌳 🌲 🌳

Sandra-Lynn Faeth!

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adarkrainbow · 7 months

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I was recently reminded of the existence of this artwork, so I'll make a quick post about it. I had a very large version of the picture allowing t scrutinize little details - but unfortunately the size limit of Tumblr shrunk the picture.

This is the map known as "The Land of Make Believe", the most famous work of Jaro Hess - a collection of more than sixty references to various fairy tales, nursery rhymes, pieces of children literature and European legends, collected together in the shape of one fantastical and magical land. It was published in the early 1930s.

I will leave under the cut a complete list of all the places described and named on this map (a bit more than sixty in total):

Here the North Wind lives

Bluebeard's Castle

Here lives Peter Pan

Rip Van Winkle

Do not go in here

Here Little Miss Muffett was terribly frightened

Red Riding Hood's Grandmother's house

Jack Sprat - His house

The dilatory ship that never comes in

The Water Babies live here

Here the old man caught the golden fish

Dapple Gray Poney she rode him through the mire

Little Boy Blue fast asleep

The city of many towers where the beautiful princess lives

The castle of the giants

This is the cow that jumped over the moon

The city of brass

Jack the giant killer's house

Simple Simon met the Pieman here

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Crooked Man lives in his Crooked House

Mary and her Little Lamb

The black hen who laid eggs for gentlemen

Old Mother Hubbard's place

Bo-Peep's sheep

Contrary Mary's garden

Jack and Jill went up this hill

Here fairies dance in the moonlight

Here the Old King Col lives and the fiddlers three occasionally fiddle

Enchanted woods

Bottomless lake

Here is a desert

High tower where the little lame prince was locked

This house belongs to Grandfather-know-all

Magic carpet

The glass mountain

The wonderful Moo-Moo bird

The Emerald City of Oz

Long, Broad and Swift Glance

Do not walk near the edge!

Hansel and Gretel find the gingerbread house

Here the black bird picked off the maid's nose

Peter Rabbit lives in this hole

Here are the Babes in the Woods, covered in leaves

The shoe here the old woman lives

Little Bo Peep is looking for her sheep

The Wandering Jew

Tom-Tom the piper's son ran this way

Here the mermaids play

The Squall Fish

In this place there are peculiar fishes

The mysterious island

The path that leaves to no place eventually

The house that Jack built

Cinderella lives here

The castle where the Sleeping Beauty sleeps

Humpty Dumpty had that great fall here

The talking bird

The old witch lives here

West of the moon

East of the sun

#the land of make believe #fantasy map #fairytale map #art #jaro hess #fairytale crossover #nursery rhymes #fairytales #children literature #fairytale land

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kousuisetsu · 1 month

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Final Fantasy Type-0 scenery:

➟ Akademeia [Part 1]

#final fantasy type 0 #ffgraphics #*#*ff #*type0scenery #so i've been thinking of making this for a while now #despite the hd remaster ruining the lighting in a bunch of places the locations are still really pretty #i know this could've been done very easily in photomode but i wanted animations soo #i had to find specific angles where i could hide the active character and not every map allows for that #still i got 13 sets from the entire game #type 0 you will always live rent free in my head <3

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cy-cyborg-draws · 3 months

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I don't usually share my maps for worlbuilding projects, but this is the first time I've made a city map without tools like Inkarnate or other similar tools and I'm really happy with how it turned out. That and it's been a while since I talked about my pathfinder homebrew lol.

Torebli is a city in my homebrew pathfinder setting Sauvias, within the kingdom of Heralia. It is surrounded by rainforest and wetlands (across the lake depicted on the west of this map). While a fairly diverse city, it has the largest population of the semi-aquatic Axoli people and as such, has several residential districts partially submerged in the lake.

Every year during the spring time, Torebli is host to The Festival of Flames (working title lol) - a celebration honouring a hero from the ancient draconic wars in Sauvias's history (I'm keeping it vague because some of the players in the campaign I'm planning to run follow me on here and this festival is connected to the story).

[ID: An illustrated, top down map of a medieval city along a lake shore. The city's wall and several of the buildings extends into the water, and around the city on land is dense forest. In the bottom right is the name of the city, Torebli, and in the top right is a compass rose to indicate that north is towards the top of the image. /End ID]

#worldbuilding #Sauvias #pathfinder 2e #cy cyborg draws #disabled artist #my art #queer artist #digital art #ttrpg #dnd #pf2e #pathfinder homebrew #pathfinder #pathfinder art #map #homebrew map #map making #fantasy map #dnd maps

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space-writes · 9 months

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the current map for all of Valloroth! it's very much a living thing, but I like how it looks for now.

made in Azgaars Fantasy Map Generator, which invented all the distances for me, so all I had to do was measure them and work out how long it takes my collection of weirdos to get from one place to another.

i also have a version of it in my obsidian notes, so I can (eventually) link all my world notes to it, cause i think that'll be neat

some fun notes, to give a smidge of context to some of these places:

Zander is from Invereid

Aliyne & Vren are from Mohaade, originally from a small town near the border mountains of the Wilds

Leshanna was born in Osevia, but grew up in Oraladhel, and attended the very prestigious university in the capital, Cyvanil

Voi'xindiiri is where Sorrow's main Vallorosian contacts are

Iaseri is a dracari enclave, though it's mostly in the capital of Voah'kasis, which is a floating city

Ashen-rir is the first (only) above-ground dark elf-founded state

Fygek is the goblin homeland, and it's largely closed off to outsiders

The Wilds used to be the main seat of the Draconic Empire, until Ruvosha the Green (one of the Original Dragons) destroyed it and raised the mountains that now block the Wilds from the rest of the world

Valloroth taglist: @cherrybombfangirlwrites @memento-morri-writes @foxboyclit @lawful-evil-novelist @at-thezenith @morganwriteblr @fayeiswriting (ask to be +/-)

#valloroth blogging #writeblr #fantasy map #it's simple but it's mine <3 #also i am not doing deep geographical worldbuilding here i do not care about the plate tectonics of valloroth #its magic. it was made by magic. its all magic all the way down #god i want to worldbuild boudobrivvin more #thats orcland and the orcs are technically fungus and also they have the best food #the thing is i mostly make things for as and when they show up in the book #and for book one orcs are not really more than just. a little hint of background flavour briefly mentioned #i currently have little excuse to send the gang there #maybe a side story perhaps

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jazz-dude · 5 months

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Made myself a guide so I dont keep changing things, for me and for the benefit of my players.

#jazz-dude #artists on tumblr #art stuff #my art #illustration #artwork #fantasy #rpg #ttrpg #map #map art #map making #fantasy map #retro #osr #fantasy art

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cerastes · 11 months

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This is how it feels to make maps for tabletop

#definitely my least favorite part #I like the other parts #making maps fit squares and shit...#not to mention finding assets that aren't >fantasy #EUGH!!!!

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