Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Setting: Map up!

[Olaf the Stout]

What are these tectonic plates you are talking about?

The mountains must be a place where the rigid shell of the giant tortoise the world rests on come through the earth.

But anyway, great map. . .

Discworld reference FTW!

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

It looks like yet another Tolkienesque western shore of a continent to me.

That's probably what they were shooting for. I don't think that they were trying to reinvent the wheel with this.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Wik]

Maps are great and all, but they never really excited me. I mean, it's all about the locations... maps themselves just arn'e that amazing.

As for the names... yeah, they're generic fantasy. Makes sense, though - they AREN'T trying to reinvent the wheel (as has been stated), and some people just get annoyed when the names are too.... unique. And, really, look at our own world - there are plenty of weird, stupid names. Hell, in Canada alone, we have:

1) Medicine Hat
2) Moose Jaw
3) Thunder Bay
4) The Rocky Mountains
5) Lake Huron

Not to mention all the names that had Native influences that, I'm sure, players would roll their eyes at if they had heard them around the game table: Niagara, Haida Gwai (in BC), and Saskatchewan.

Really, any name sounds stupid if you analyze it too much.

 

[TwinBahamut]

It looks good, and I like the sea (called a bay, oddly enough) and the many inland lakes, but all the rivers seem to move in such odd patterns. It is almost as if the rivers are trying to be the borders of countries, rather than flow logicaly from high-ground to the ocean. They just curve, bend, and loop too strangely.

There has to be some explanation for the really sudden boundary between the lowland area and the plateau. The map makes it look like a sudden steep cliff along a fairly even curve over many hundreds of miles. If that is the case, there must be some kind of interesting story behind it within the setting.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

That's some nice artwork, but, in terms of physical distance, the region seems kind of on the small side IMO.

 

[Dragon Vindaloo]

 

[Hussar]

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.

And, yeah, Canada has some really strange place names: Kejimkujik (usually pronounced here as kedge-im-a-kou-gic), which, if memory serves, can be translated as chafed testicles.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

That is one awesome map.

 

[The Lost Muse]

Other fun Canadian place names:

Conception Bay
Spuzzum
Come-by-Chance
and... Dildo, Newfoundland (hopefully not Grandma unfriendly)

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

 

[Steel_Wind]

Reminded me more of "The Land" in SR Donaldson's The Chonicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever series of books.

That would be because of the very obvious "Landsdrop" terrain feature repeated above, which was rather unique to The Land.

What we are seeing above in the The Landsdrop terrain feature is not tectonics or erosion - that's the legacy of oooh scary magic in the world's past.

I'm expecting we'll be reading a lot more about that in months to come