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<blockquote data-quote="SilverSnake" data-source="post: 4561513" data-attributes="member: 78267">If you have a basic knowlege of geography, the rest isn't too difficult. If not, there are a few good sites, like About.com and of course wikipedia. I'd highly advise doing a little research into what makes landforms tick.&nbsp;What I've done for my setting is taken my blank paper, and drawn some squiggly-edged shapes for my basic continents. I then put in a few mountain ranges, mostly near the edges. I assumed an air flow like in the northern hemisphere, mostly west to east, so I have a desert to the east of one of the mountain ranges, in the &quot;rain shadow.&quot; Between the mountants I drew in river valleys, one of which went to an inland sea instead of the ocean at the edge. I've got a glaciated frozen north, a jungle at the southern edge. For fun, I put in a huge meteor crater, and of course I had to write something into my history and myths to cover it. Some of my political boundries use the mountains and rivers.&nbsp;Be creative, have fun. And remember, in a fantasy setting, not everything needs to make scientific sense. Magic can do strange things to a world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SilverSnake, post: 4561513, member: 78267"] If you have a basic knowlege of geography, the rest isn't too difficult. If not, there are a few good sites, like About.com and of course wikipedia. I'd highly advise doing a little research into what makes landforms tick. What I've done for my setting is taken my blank paper, and drawn some squiggly-edged shapes for my basic continents. I then put in a few mountain ranges, mostly near the edges. I assumed an air flow like in the northern hemisphere, mostly west to east, so I have a desert to the east of one of the mountain ranges, in the "rain shadow." Between the mountants I drew in river valleys, one of which went to an inland sea instead of the ocean at the edge. I've got a glaciated frozen north, a jungle at the southern edge. For fun, I put in a huge meteor crater, and of course I had to write something into my history and myths to cover it. Some of my political boundries use the mountains and rivers. Be creative, have fun. And remember, in a fantasy setting, not everything needs to make scientific sense. Magic can do strange things to a world. [/QUOTE]

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