A Map from the Past
January 18, 2010 by shent_lodge
Filed under Featured, Game Design, Jelling
I was digging through my old game notes and I found one of my early campaign maps. This is from 1999-2000, it shows my Forgotten Realms and Warcraft 2 influences in my earlier games. Lake Surma is there and my tortoises wandered in the fog of the marsh, named The Marsh, before I created Jerren. Dalaran eventually became Port Headland and the River Surma got longer and a more North South flow. I used this map until about 2002 and it was all I needed for about 30 adventures.
The Great Sea, funny, I still don’t have a cool name for my oceans. Back then it was the Great Sea.
If you are creating a game world from scratch you don’t need a map with a lot of detail. You can always add more at a later date. like I did here.
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I find it hard to throw away any of my old gaming notes. I have several city maps that have been used as more then one location and in more then one world. having old maps around is like having a bits box of things to pull from when you need to improvise. Now that you have me thinking about all this I should see about scanning them all in tot he computer so I have them on hand when I need them.
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I have game notes scattered all over the house. I pull them out; my wife moves them; I forget where they are, I find them again, I reminisce; pull them out and the wife cleans them up and moves them somewhere; repeat for 15 years. I tried scanning, but it takes so long, and then I forget where they are on my computers. What motivated me to start this website was I knew where my notes where at least in the beginning… Now it takes just as long as rummaging through my house for my notes as it does searching all my electronic files.
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