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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 37076" data-attributes="member: 1656">Profession : Cartographer would certainly be an excellent start <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But it would depend what sort of result he was after.If he wants to say &quot;Over there there were mountains, and it took us two days to get from City A to City B&quot;, then that's not too hard.&nbsp; (My favourite map ever is the Highbulp's Map to the Dragon, from the Dragonlance Chronicles...)If he wants more exact distances and directions - after 20 miles the road turned north-north-east; the mountains were 45 miles to the west - I'd require some Intuit Direction checks.&nbsp; I think the skill required for deciding which way is north would also be of use in quickly estimating long distances.&nbsp; Others might disagree.If he wants perfect contour lines, every bend in the road mapped, every jag of coastline accurate... well, that requires magic, or a lifetime of devoted effort.&nbsp; And lots of ranks in Profession : Cartographer and Knowledge : Geography.Those are my first thoughts, at any rate.-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 37076, member: 1656"] Profession : Cartographer would certainly be an excellent start :) But it would depend what sort of result he was after. If he wants to say "Over there there were mountains, and it took us two days to get from City A to City B", then that's not too hard. (My favourite map ever is the Highbulp's Map to the Dragon, from the Dragonlance Chronicles...) If he wants more exact distances and directions - after 20 miles the road turned north-north-east; the mountains were 45 miles to the west - I'd require some Intuit Direction checks. I think the skill required for deciding which way is north would also be of use in quickly estimating long distances. Others might disagree. If he wants perfect contour lines, every bend in the road mapped, every jag of coastline accurate... well, that requires magic, or a lifetime of devoted effort. And lots of ranks in Profession : Cartographer and Knowledge : Geography. Those are my first thoughts, at any rate. -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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