Fantasy Map-Making for my Dungeons & Dragons Campaign
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0.000 HBDFantasy Map-Making for my Dungeons & Dragons Campaign
<html> <p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SUwpjQNv4Pn1-V253sUL75CNv4YfjP1onwWiHEUxkA_ytDsCOrIArHPds8enay96hnJ1gfLgD1njfd2WAX-sP3yrxl-d85dGPDLd8-CocuLZGripfCKgQv6oc-6uYxJ3kvYLJIOtK3afWy5XuRzDF_uAFw2apt-01cJn_rVd8xPYSoQmfrtyll0-lHYc_ybZm7AOza1hBg26uFW3oqrGt8mOrqQOy2UG1usOuNVdE7yityS2hAa84Zca2XPUKcVO1ojneez0Wji8FTIleQijTgZTZZEzDF5qj85P5gsZcH5vWgfXGlH7AXvNgw6f58xrO1m-JTNH-czrwH94gNJTg3RBuxSGVqy0SZJt4FBbuoWp0hE-yW9rxL76I89ms8dVOHlep9vHF6Iad_37e716xjDhFcYR2JLHm54NuJi-P6YHVRIVNStfHCKJTW_NDDVX2TFQ4CFHuLUYniNPAUX4hn5_TehXkYLkl63Jmkuk6GrP4kzcBNBsUlZ5D2qbaDBUWdikgUEpgUule7uOVHTXGcnOImroG7_4QbbGYS5-UlhyeGfL3QRsd79aJ-suFctWnrlxsq-orXT0bSf42_P1UxqVWty3F6u4vMWHYDblHmTtSamkCV_CGY0t6A=w800-h470-no" width="800" height="470"/></p> <p>Here's something I've never spoken about on this old blog o' mine: <strong>Dungeons & Dragons</strong>. I've been playing D&D for almost as long as I've been on Steemit.</p> <h1>My History with D&D</h1> <p>It's something I had wanted to do for as long as I've known about the game, but I never had a group of friends who were interested or experienced, and I didn't have the initiative to do all of the research myself. But I'm glad I started when I did. If I got into the game just a little bit earlier, I would have been playing 4th Edition, which I don't think I would have liked. 4e seems like a videogame, where instead of letting the computer do all the hard work and math, I have to do it.</p> <p>I started by playing 5th Edition with a group of friends from work. Since then, I decided to try my hand at running my own campaign. For the uninitiated, the game master in D&D is called the Dungeon Master or DM. </p> <p>I recently finished running my first adventure with my wife and a few friends (an adventure that I'm sure I'll publish on Steemit one day.) I intended this adventure to be a short standalone (though it took us 3 sessions to play through), but I've now decided to expand it into a huge campaign. The adventure took place in a <em>village</em>. <strong>The campaign takes place on a </strong><em><strong>continent</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p> <p>The first thing I had to do to prepare for this was create a map. And that's what I'm here to share today!</p> <h1>Map-Making for D&D</h1> <p>I started with a sketch. I developed this at work over a couple of lunches. I first worked out the shapes of the landmass then the major landmarks, geography and political borders.</p> <center><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rOMFiFsFNDsUwLYSiq9Dqv5LWRUExp31TNayKBh-lLhN9bJ2bTRlpGnFQbzhRlZCN9uNX1kpxEgOhYBcNFTEvTz0HnILxSK7-wLi4lbGeVOJ3d0rr4j5vmqt_S387l6MsrujZfQC24n0V_S5M2MItjPQHxg79dr32g5pHrVhHI_usqqGcHokSWPPtcqME-QUSTZEu4z-O9-3IkR25duNXw6rWOTvFvqh73zHahfrbSQpt0dnn0TBtg9WUVpp0hTvqU3ee3obDXJNFhjcF_AAaHm6epaJmWp-e0GtROa9ulBcfLJ4MDePaAIoqASjUF-oqnDc6UU1N-Hhe0j4RqKl291qDfvQqmzrI6PliVXK2Wwkb8AVkiF4kv7w4BxShKWotSL2Z77TDWSAw5C5hmMD7IqKIFQXzS__lkqSAo-EX6oQrtVLNps91D0k6OdEopYewZ469Tp9MVCxE2C_vSer6tjW5hFtrJx4sfZ3TEGUQjYUUyQia_e4IgeLrdrwr7gub61y9pqwb8YDA9Y3CUS8TXuiOqLksnyzG1xu3Blh7dlI1vQgPFxgwR-A8Q9LqcjiFoCppthj9JnBZ1xbIkbbjxgiiUXG0pw86Nd1WY-6U1k-PC4fDdPDDgO2xw=w692-h901-no" width="691" height="901"/></p></center> <p>Then I translated the drawing to a larger sheet of sketching paper. I did everything in pencil first, then wrote over it with permanent pen. And I'm just realizing now that I missed a couple of labels as well as a scale marker on the finished map... I can fix that. Finally I washed over the map with tea and added some wrinkles to make it look old. After it dried, I painted the land masses with tea to make them slightly darker than the water.</p> <p>I tried to draw in the style of a Tolkien map. I hope I was successful.</p> <p>I wish I had taken a few step-by-step photos. All I can show you now is the final product. I hope you like it!</p> <center><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rMVc25kx_23ZM9k1HDYe_Wah67iTr6jNH2TqULc7Cp4Y65d2H6pVCwx17YDS4P4e5SBRPG3xJAAaTcEYoxchNA-EXyMEfxBU3CEO8FJe-JE7xyBgz2JO80xz0f0vCyE_ZECN83GMbQXKFqo1r4JjeqwR42vsRB9hxzKz5Dkr87rPnUJBIgA7IHzsfzu7aTi5Vl7o8qvHBbjOUHBjaezgJk5JNrzp6MgnRP8Ooo-UJHZ8ZDdU_65ZHPTQ3amVnm8MPK-M_ObKTELVQMKhoTLFknUph3hAzUbO5Fp5XZKO34vlVUEXHEzcYYpnTPP-GnBaN55azSz8FbOqq18qywscBVim7dHpw9WWws2_l04nbzqopXOP3P5cXfDAsKbf1iknLnW6ayFCQEZ3qhnjoGro5q4UNnTyX1psEhyw5ltHXvZ2yN3zvIrRUjW41Iy6z30fqG8cx4RV2LISWJLr4F6wrRHX9w90B0bqydfK2bjQi2aTWjnHpLzxYRqEJ3KFoH95nXaXyJ9GLeauW3fiFLoPHMOKNIfYpmM0EY_msEqT9aa7e-64Q7imkPsrwehCq6GMY55pIB8-kKQ-qI3awBRbf8S5uxKJgZdDGq4JwZ4VbXrkoRhvYZFnA=w742-h901-no" width="742" height="901"/></p></center> <p>After I finished the map, a friend pointed out to me that Winterfell is a location in <em>Game of Thrones</em>. Having never seen or read <em>Game of Thrones</em>, I was unaware of this. Now I'm full of regret because I want my locations to be free of associations and I did this in pen. Oh well, what's done is done!</p> <h2>~Seth</h2> <ul> <li>Watch <a href="https://steemit.com/spanish/@sethlinson/steemit-explained-episode-1-en-espanol"><em><strong>Steemit Explained!</strong></em> <strong>Episode 1 in Spanish</strong></a>.</li> <li>I'm celebrating <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@sethlinson/happy-anniversary-to-me-celebrating-one-year-on-steemit"><strong>One Year on Steemit</strong></a>!</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://www.steemimg.com/images/2017/03/24/BlogLogoWhite326b6.jpg"/></p> <p><br></p> </html>
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