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<blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 5220545" data-attributes="member: 2673">You're wanting non-Euclidian, right?&nbsp; Maps make geography make sense, so you can't use one.&nbsp; Here's what I'd do.Create several interesting things that they might go and see or explore.&nbsp; A temple to a mad god, a field of blood-red roses with a stone circle in the middle, a village full of children, a crossroads with a sign that labels every location in the universe and a cackling old man offering directions.&nbsp; Add to that an encounter chart full of crazy stuff.Travel should be like a skill challenge.&nbsp; If you succeed, you get where you were trying to go.&nbsp; If you fail, random encounter.&nbsp; To add to it, you can't just go back the way you came.&nbsp; The locals will act like this is perfectly natural - &quot;I know you followed the road from the crossroads to get here, but you can't just go back on the same road, you'll run right into the lake of fire.&nbsp; You've got to go this other way over the mountains to get back where you were!&quot;&nbsp; Any time they object that this strange world doesn't make any sense, make them roll a saving throw to prevent Sanity damage of some kind.My best example of this was in Call of Cthulhu, when they were sailing over R'leyh.&nbsp; &quot;You see a large building, perfectly square.&nbsp; Five thin towers rise from it, one at each corner.&quot;&quot;How can there be five towers if there is one at each corner?&quot;&quot;Hey, you're right.&nbsp; Roll Sanity.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />If you map it out, that means the players can map it out.&nbsp; That means it makes some kind of sense.&nbsp; That means it isn't alien.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="maddman75, post: 5220545, member: 2673"] You're wanting non-Euclidian, right? Maps make geography make sense, so you can't use one. Here's what I'd do. Create several interesting things that they might go and see or explore. A temple to a mad god, a field of blood-red roses with a stone circle in the middle, a village full of children, a crossroads with a sign that labels every location in the universe and a cackling old man offering directions. Add to that an encounter chart full of crazy stuff. Travel should be like a skill challenge. If you succeed, you get where you were trying to go. If you fail, random encounter. To add to it, you can't just go back the way you came. The locals will act like this is perfectly natural - "I know you followed the road from the crossroads to get here, but you can't just go back on the same road, you'll run right into the lake of fire. You've got to go this other way over the mountains to get back where you were!" Any time they object that this strange world doesn't make any sense, make them roll a saving throw to prevent Sanity damage of some kind. My best example of this was in Call of Cthulhu, when they were sailing over R'leyh. "You see a large building, perfectly square. Five thin towers rise from it, one at each corner." "How can there be five towers if there is one at each corner?" "Hey, you're right. Roll Sanity." :D If you map it out, that means the players can map it out. That means it makes some kind of sense. That means it isn't alien. [/QUOTE]

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