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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uzirath" data-source="post: 7634441" data-attributes="member: 8495">The internet is especially helpful for modern or alternate-history modern games. I love the roller skating vampire idea. Brilliant.For my fantasy games, I can't think of anything I've used directly from the modern world, but I constantly pillage maps. I use a lot of real-world topographical maps to represent wilderness locations. I have a city in a bunch of canyons that is based on maps of badlands and canyons in the American West. My tropical archipelago is mostly made up of Indonesian islands rotated and rescaled so that it doesn't appear like Indonesia to casual observation. I used before and after maps of Thera/Santorini to model an island volcano that blew during an adventure (including <a href="https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/santorin_island_1848.jpg" target="_blank">this one</a> from 1848). I've used a lot of historical layouts of Egyptian, Aztec, and Mayan architecture (e.g., the <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/9c/91/dd9c915b59dbebfbdaaf414d8c8e9ad1.jpg" target="_blank">Karnak Temple Complex</a>). I use these as a base and then add fantasy elements (floating pyramids, planar gates, rivers of molten mana, all the usual stuff). In my rare forays into a more European setting, I'll pillage historic maps of cities, towns, villages, and castles (I love Dan Howard's <a href="http://www.warehouse23.com/products/compact-castles" target="_blank">Compact Castles</a>). For some European urban settings, a modern map redrawn to appear old works pretty well since many of the roads were laid out prior to the automobile. I used to have a fairly large library of reference books that basically supported my gaming (other things too... but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't mostly for gaming). With the rise of the internet, I rarely hit the books anymore. It's just so easy to find information and useful media (maps, diagrams, photos, etc.).</blockquote>

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