Topic: Help with maps
Started by: Ron Edwards
Started on: 7/9/2001
Board: Adept Press
On 7/9/2001 at 2:48pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
Help with maps
Hello,
I'm in the process of re-writing Sorcerer & Sword extensively. I'd really like to have a map for each of the three example settings (yes, three, not two).
I'd especially like them to tend towards "Orkworld-style," that is, less on detailing the whereabouts of every little thing and more on providing cool geography to fill in details later.
Anyone interested in helping? The following are requested:
- good at Campaign Cartographer or anything similar
- will actually get it done
- can tolerate at least one round of revision
Some payment is negotiable. Of course, you get full credits in the published supplement.
Best,
Ron
On 7/9/2001 at 3:18pm, greyorm wrote:
RE: Help with maps
Ron,
I'm interested. I'll send you some sample world and region maps I've created over the years and then you can decide based on the quality of those and that which you recieve from anyone else.
FYI, my maps are all hand-drawn; I don't use mapping programs like CC or similar.
On 7/9/2001 at 3:38pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
RE: Help with maps
Good point, Raven. It's perfectly OK by me if the maps are done the old-fashioned way.
Best,
Ron
On 7/9/2001 at 5:53pm, Zak Arntson wrote:
RE: Help with maps
I am also all over this, but I'd prefer to do 'em by hand.
It'll be like my old old old D&D days!! :)
Do you want submissions cold, or do you have some guidelines?
On 7/10/2001 at 8:44pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
RE: Help with maps
Here's what I have in mind.
The Xar setting
- bizarre, intense, over-the-top fantasy, Heavy Metal
- continent-scale with lots of geographic diversity, with big chasms and weird landscape features
The Black Forest setting
- central-European fairy tale
- much "closer-up," so we can see roads, villages, deep forests, and that sort of thing
The as-yet-unnamed setting
- blasted post-nuclear landscape, long after the blast (like centuries and centuries)
- scale of the modern city and its surroundings
I'm a little concerned that there are going to be people I'm going to have to say "no" to. If you would feel crushed by this, then don't submit, OK?
Best,
Ron
On 7/11/2001 at 5:19pm, greyorm wrote:
RE: Help with maps
I'm a little concerned that there are going to be people I'm going to have to say "no" to. If you would feel crushed by this, then don't submit, OK?
Art is not a field to get into if you can't handle rejection. Lots of rejection. Lots. I hate rejection [sob!] But I can live with it!
After all, no matter what happens, when I'm done with a piece of work -- written or painted -- whether it gets accepted or not, I still have something I'm happy with, and I can always pawn it off on some other poor, unsus...er, good-natured client.
Enough humor-tinged philosophy: Ron, you mentioned that you want these like Orkworld's map, which apparently is really nothing more than a coastline? (not sure where I read that)
Having never seen the Orkworld map, and thus having no idea what a good map loose on geographic details would look like, could someone provide a clear example of such?
On 7/11/2001 at 10:35pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
RE: Help with maps
Raven,
What you heard about Orkworld is not true - it is very detailed, geographically. What it does NOT have are any cities, roads, boundaries, or any other "cultural" items. That permits the GM and players to do what they will.
I think this method is quite wonderful, and although the Sorcerer maps I'm talking about may end up having a thing or two put on them later, I'd like to start with just the geography.
Best,
Ron
On 7/12/2001 at 5:58am, Gordon C. Landis wrote:
RE: Help with maps
You can view the Orkworld map at
http://www.orkworld.com/images/orkworld_map.jpg
An essay describing its' design appears at
http://www.orkworld.com/geographic_design.html