Greenstone
First Post
Any Comments?
Just posting this here for some comments and feedback. Not even sure when (or if) I’ll get to play in this, as I have two homebrews using my own rules system on the go. This was meant to be a back-up, in case both my groups imploded at some stage, and I needed a “quick” setting for D&D3E.
The map (note that attached version has been resized) was created from a blank map available on the WOTC website... changed it a bit, and added all the names and settlements. Basically a “classic” fantasy setting… a human kingdom surrounded by demi-human areas, barbaric plainsmen over the mountains, and horrible creatures beyond that, including the Dragonblight, full of… er, dragons.
I called it BLACKMOON in homage to Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor campaign setting, as well as WOTC’s Andy Collins’ Blackmere campaign (the adventure path for which is detailed on his great website http://www.andycollins.net/) from which I wanted to steal the campaign storyline.
Made the scale small to drive a nice and tight “local” campaign. Also made it this way in reaction to some of the ridiculous scales one sees on both published and homemade maps nowadays. Even great settings such as Midnight and Dawnforge, as well as Eberron, have these HUGE areas that seem to have very few settlements… take a look at a map of England to see how many towns one should find in a 100-mile radius of each other in a realistic setting.
(While I’m moaning, why do so many settings also have sweeping timelines where thousands of years pass with very little history changing… again look at England, say from 1200-1500, to see how much can change in just 300 years?)
Anyway, interested in any feedback, on the map or on my comments about scale and history.
Just posting this here for some comments and feedback. Not even sure when (or if) I’ll get to play in this, as I have two homebrews using my own rules system on the go. This was meant to be a back-up, in case both my groups imploded at some stage, and I needed a “quick” setting for D&D3E.
The map (note that attached version has been resized) was created from a blank map available on the WOTC website... changed it a bit, and added all the names and settlements. Basically a “classic” fantasy setting… a human kingdom surrounded by demi-human areas, barbaric plainsmen over the mountains, and horrible creatures beyond that, including the Dragonblight, full of… er, dragons.
I called it BLACKMOON in homage to Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor campaign setting, as well as WOTC’s Andy Collins’ Blackmere campaign (the adventure path for which is detailed on his great website http://www.andycollins.net/) from which I wanted to steal the campaign storyline.
Made the scale small to drive a nice and tight “local” campaign. Also made it this way in reaction to some of the ridiculous scales one sees on both published and homemade maps nowadays. Even great settings such as Midnight and Dawnforge, as well as Eberron, have these HUGE areas that seem to have very few settlements… take a look at a map of England to see how many towns one should find in a 100-mile radius of each other in a realistic setting.
(While I’m moaning, why do so many settings also have sweeping timelines where thousands of years pass with very little history changing… again look at England, say from 1200-1500, to see how much can change in just 300 years?)
Anyway, interested in any feedback, on the map or on my comments about scale and history.
