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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 2048256" data-attributes="member: 2002">There are no trees in the mountains because the Dwarves cut them all down for firewood, tools and furniture.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Nah, as above, it's the mountains that are the dominant feature on the map and sometimes it's difficult to convey all the various features of an area.And then again, there might not be any trees on the mountains due to the local climate.On my own maps, I use the common terrain types, but these are only a broad guideline of what you might find in the area.  After all, if you looked at the Twin Cities (pre-settlement) as a broad region, you'd find it as a combination of forest and plains coming together in this immediate area.  However, there are still plenty of hills and quite a lot of lowlands (swamps) in the general region, along with a lot of lakes and small rivers that wouldn't make the larger map.</blockquote>