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Post by GRWelsh on May 24, 2020 15:11:07 GMT -5
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Post by GRWelsh on May 26, 2020 18:35:35 GMT -5
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Post by Scott on May 26, 2020 20:09:22 GMT -5
Poor Grash. He knew what he should do, but he stood by his stubborn friends. I still have Fleek Pingle for the next UA content game I run.
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Post by geneweigel on May 26, 2020 21:12:25 GMT -5
The computer maps look very nice.
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Post by GRWelsh on Feb 22, 2021 18:28:08 GMT -5
This is one of my early attempts at a continent map on an original fantasy world drawn in early 1984. The southern bay was influenced by the shape of the Azure Sea on the World of Greyhawk.
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Post by geneweigel on Feb 22, 2021 19:58:46 GMT -5
Let me guess...all mountain peaks have dungeons?
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Post by GRWelsh on Feb 23, 2021 8:50:42 GMT -5
Ha, I don't think there was much rhyme or reason to it. It was the early 80's and fantasy novels with maps were everywhere, and I was going down the rabbit hole of world building. I just wanted to be able to say "Here is where this adventure was, there is where that adventure was" to my players and provide room for open ended development. It is not easy to see it on the map but I drew some micro-detail of the region maps where I placed adventures I DMed in 1982/1983 in the Northwest around Eldor, Norn and Terralon and adventures I DMed placed southwest of Galador in 1984. I say it was an original world but many of the names were borrowed from somewhere else and later made me cringe.
ARDOR: Name stolen from THE COURT OF ARDOR IN SOUTHERN MIDDLE EARTH, an ICE product for Middle Earth Role Playing. BRENN, CALAVAR and TELMAR: Names stolen from the Chronicles of Narnia. CROM: Name stolen from Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. On my map it was a "lost world" area rather than a god. GALADOR: Name stolen from Marvel Comics -- it was the name of the planet Rom the SpaceKnight was from. LALANDE: Name stolen from a Terran Trade Authority coffee table book on fictional spacecraft from the late 70's. NORN: Name taken from the Norse Fates, the Norns, although here it is a location ruled by a necromancer. USHERE: Name taken from a John Brunner story "Fusing and Refusing" first published in IASFM (Jan. 1983).
I ended up scrapping this island concept when later in 1984 my friend Eric Bachman and I agreed that our campaigns were on the same continent of a world which we named Alaria. I still have the initial sketch we made during that conversation and I'll have to find it and scan it in.
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Post by geneweigel on Feb 23, 2021 9:46:11 GMT -5
I have so many maps that I can't even keep track. I have alt worlds, planets, dimensions, dimensional planets, timeline variants, Greyhawk add-ons, etc. Plus I have a mediocre pile of gaming product maps that I never threw out. I threw out my National Geographic collection after they got fake science political in the 1990's but saved all the old maps. I used to study the land mass of my grandfather's old property with topographical maps. Its strange how the measurements didn't do it justice. (I miss the natural grandeur of that old place but not the people. My family on my mother's side are all egomaniacs. So never going back.). I'm aiming to cover some of my maps that are original either with the Broken Castle series or the related fiction.
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Post by GRWelsh on Feb 23, 2021 10:59:29 GMT -5
That island map was one of my first lessons about how if something isn't important to players, it isn't important. I displayed it to them and their reaction was "That's cool" but showed no interest otherwise. I enjoyed drawing the coastline and mountains and naming the regions... Reveling in the details. I taped the six pieces of graph paper together to make what I thought was going to really impress them, but they didn't care. If I had told them a staff of power was rumored to be hidden in a cave in a certain mountain range, they would have been all over it.
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Post by geneweigel on Feb 23, 2021 19:03:51 GMT -5
In the 80's, I had a lot of stuff snatched including maps. Strangely, I have a lot of player versions of maps that I made and the originals are gone. I literally had piles of "doubles" of adventures because of the 3 bag set clearances. Now I'm lucky to have one or two of the classics. The vast majority of loss is art though. I have a lot of fantasy images (The ones that I posted online before that image website limited all the images) but large worthwhile efforts were stolen. All pics from PAINTING I & II in high school were "taxed" and were never seen again. I would guess around 30 fantasy pictures mostly dungeon scene stuff.
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Post by GT on Feb 23, 2021 19:09:44 GMT -5
[Off Topic] Wow, GW! Terran Trade Authority! I have those books... they had some cool spaceship designs in them; all tied together by a fictional space war involving the systems of Sol, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri. Had some interesting aliens in one of the books as well. I got mine at a Walden's bookstore starting back in the late 70s! Haven't pulled them out in awhile...
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Post by GT on Feb 23, 2021 19:13:57 GMT -5
{On topic} I did some visuals for an expansion of S3 [after all, where is the "drive level" that landed the thing?]. Added in some more criiters and an "improved" powered armor suit, as well as statting the pentapod creature on the cover and the water lizard from the garden illustration. Only three of my players (as a party) ever ran in the module though...
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Post by geneweigel on Feb 23, 2021 22:18:38 GMT -5
Vaguely recall someone having one of those TTA books thats a crusty memory.
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Post by GRWelsh on Feb 24, 2021 9:01:40 GMT -5
Ah, yeah, the TTA books! It was a simple idea to recycle art into a coffee table book and write new stories around it, which I think made adults roll their eyes but as a kid I loved it! If you think about it, this was similar to the "Marvel Method" (write the text around what you see happening in the artwork). I still have SPACECRAFT: 2000 to 2100 AD by Stewart Cowley that my uncle gave me for Christmas in 1978, and a similar book THE ALIEN WORLD: THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE by Steven Eisler which the same uncle gave me for Christmas in 1980. I still consider them both very imaginative and inspirational. My LOTRO character, a captain, Garathan with active title Foe of Night, is named directly after the Ezraaq hero Garathaan Shield of Night!
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