Forrested Mountains don't exist

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Camplaign, camplaign, camplaign...is that all anyone does these days?

Well, I don't have a huge problem with it - The legibility issues are surely a big factor. It just seemed sort of strange.

That IS some map BG ! My hat is off to Dr. K!

 

[S'mon]

I think it's a Fantasy trope/cliche that mountains are always bare and windswept, never tree-covered. IMCs action tends to occur either in that bleak stony 'above the treeline' environment or occasionally in the meltwater forests on the ridges below the treeline where the green dragons live - usually when foolish PCs think it's easier to travel beneath the treeline...

IRL in the UK even our low mountains tend to be bare & treeless, not because trees won't grow there but because humans chopped them down 6-8,000 years ago & our animals ate the seedlings that tried to grow back, so if I think mountains I think treeless. Likewise the higher parts of European mountain ranges are usually treeless (Alps, Pyrenees). The mountains I've seen in USA (Smokies in east Tennessee, mountains around Los Alamos in New Mexico even at over 12,000 feet) were all tree-covered though.

 

[Zappo]

BG, that map r0x0rs!

 

[Psion]

I just generally tend to draw forests around my mountains... sort of assuming that there are trees on the mountains (up to the tree lines), just that the mountain symbols take precedence. Where forsested mountains exist IRL, they tend to extend much further than the mountains.

 

[Darkness]

http://www.parentsbasementgames.com/areamap.pdf

Warning: that's a 6MB map

Looks like 9.5 MB to me, actually.

Beautiful map, though.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Thanks for the kind words, guys!


Darkness: Oops. Yeah, 9.5 it is. I guess those mountians are bigger than I thought.

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You know, guys, if you really like it. And you want Dr. Ku to produce more, there's a great way to do that in my .sig. He's currently considering mapping out more of the Remarian provinces. Probably starting with what's on the other side of the Painted Desert.

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[Assenpfeffer]

Columbia Games' world of Hârn has always had forested mountains. It was published in the early 80s.

 

[Emirikol]

I live in Colorado in the foothills near Denver. I've seen them all, it seems (although I'd like to take a trip to Peru and see some -really- vegetated mountains).

Above 11,000 feet (here), there 'aint' crap but rocks, shortgrass, glaciers, and a few marmots who look at you like, " ..you silly American, why do you bother me?"

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/hiking/skills/treeline.htm

Hilly forest and mountainous forest never did come out well on maps and that's why they got left out I suppose..plus they never appeared in the HOBBIT!

jh

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Pretty sure Darlene's map of the World of Greyhawk had some forested mountains in it.

 

[Krieg]

Above 11,000 feet (here), there 'aint' crap but rocks, shortgrass, glaciers, and a few marmots who look at you like, " ..you silly American, why do you bother me?"

Are you insinuating that they're non-native marmots?

Do they have outrageous French accents?