Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Setting: Map up!

[Shadowdancer]

I like the map. Of course, I'm a sucker for maps anyway.

I like the desert plateau sheer drop-off into forest and grasslands. An interesting terrain feature. Dennis McKiernan used something similar in his Mithgar novels.

But as someone mentioned, the rivers don't seem to flow naturally. And that southernmost river, Yondabakari; with the output from two large lakes, downstream from Wartle it would be huge. Although seepage from it could help produce the Mushfens.

I would like to see a fantasy setting map someday that breaks with tradition. Set it in the southern hemisphere, for example, so that the weather gets colder as you go south, and warmer as you go north. Have all the rivers flow northerly. Something.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Something to remember, this isn't a very big place. East to west, you're looking at about 600 miles or so. That's not exaclty huge.

It's supposedly the same size, through obviously not the same shape, as California.

Even by Australian standards, that's pretty big - California is 410,000 square kilometres, which would make it our fourth-largest state or territory after Western Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory (slightly ahead of South Australia).

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I would like to see a fantasy setting map someday that breaks with tradition. Set it in the southern hemisphere, for example, so that the weather gets colder as you go south, and warmer as you go north. Have all the rivers flow northerly. Something.

Ansalon, from the Dragonlance setting, was in the southern hemisphere of Krynn.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

names

I like the cartography, but like some others here, I hate the names. They're very bland.

Ken

 

[Baron Opal]

Clearly there will be an expansion detailing the Yeslands, bitter enemies of the Nolands.

And with their favored class (bard) they shall triumph over their tone-deaf foes! They shouldn't have killed the whale.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

The names are lame -...

Yeah, my first thought as well! BTW, hi GVD! Rules change, Greyhawk endures!

 

[Someone]

While the map is nice, it does look an awful lot like Middle Earth/Randland/Faerun...

Indeed, all of these has coasts, rivers, mountains and forests. I guess it's difficult to be original when it comes to maps.

 

[hong]

I like the cartography, but like some others here, I hate the names. They're very bland.

Ken

Still better than Kalamar's names, aka a soupful of syllables, though.

 

[Friadoc]

You know what's funny about maps?

As with most languages, they're living things and acquire the oddest names due to whomever found it.

Places aren't always named by academics and scholars who've thought things through, or contemplated what they'll name something.

Personally, I like the odd mix of cool and normal sounding names.

 

[Ant]

That's beautiful!

And I like Greyhawk names so I don't have a problem with these.