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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 1945928" data-attributes="member: 27012">>For the D&D game that I'm currently running, I took this blank map:<a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mapofweek/Dec03_Bonus_map_5_72_dpi_fd9h.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mapofweek/Dec03_Bonus_map_5_72_dpi_fd9h.jpg</a>...from the WotC "Map a Week" archive (it's actually a hunk of Greyhawk from a published supplement) and added my own region names, cities, political boundaries, etc.  Create something that looks about that good, include several maps that fit together to cover a larger area, include some interesting geography (like the one from Greyhawk does with the swamp, tall mountains, etc.) but nothing so strange that it makes the map difficult to adapt, and release it in electronic form so I can import it into a graphics program and I might have some use for it.I'd suggest no grid or scale.  My scale for that map is different than the same hunk of Greyhawk and I put my hexes in a drawing layer that I can turn on or off for different print-outs.  Again, if you release this electronically, it's trivially easy to include many different versions with and without grids, keys, labels, etc.  Yes, you'll have a potential theft problem with an electronic version but your publishing overhead will also drop substantially.  You won't have to worry about printing up a few thousand and then only selling a few hundred.</blockquote>