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<blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 3126597" data-attributes="member: 2201"><p>IIRC, the area around Greyhawk and Dyvers was based on the area of Wisconsin around Lake Geneva. I don't recall the exact map correlation, however.</p><p></p><p>There was a book, "Always Coming Home" by Ursula K. LeQuin, that was based on a futuristic San Francisco bay area after a massive cataclysm that left it as a peninsula. The bay was called the Inland Sea. The map is on page 223 of the book I had. It came with a tape of songs of the people in the stories. There were also some local maps that would be of use to anyone with a campaign wanting a small area to run in.</p><p></p><p>Another option, the Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters had very cool maps of the town of Shrewsbury and the county of Shropshire. It also had some of the area of England and Wales nearby. It would be very easy to build a campaign around the maps in those books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Templetroll, post: 3126597, member: 2201"] IIRC, the area around Greyhawk and Dyvers was based on the area of Wisconsin around Lake Geneva. I don't recall the exact map correlation, however. There was a book, "Always Coming Home" by Ursula K. LeQuin, that was based on a futuristic San Francisco bay area after a massive cataclysm that left it as a peninsula. The bay was called the Inland Sea. The map is on page 223 of the book I had. It came with a tape of songs of the people in the stories. There were also some local maps that would be of use to anyone with a campaign wanting a small area to run in. Another option, the Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters had very cool maps of the town of Shrewsbury and the county of Shropshire. It also had some of the area of England and Wales nearby. It would be very easy to build a campaign around the maps in those books. [/QUOTE]
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