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For the past year or so I have been contemplating setting up a West Marches inspired campaign. I'm not good at map drawing and have been constantly on the lookout for a good wilderness map to use in such a campaign. The things I'm looking for:
1. High resolution so I can zoom in on it
2. A wide variety of terrain types, primarily temperate climate, but a map extending to tropical or arctic could be interesting
3. A variety of smaller terrain areas, like marshes along rivers, small forests, etc.
4. Terrain not bounded by hexes, in fact, would prefer a non-hex map
5. Would be cool to have vegetation and topography overlaid so mountains and hills can have varying terrains
6. prefer no signs of civilization, but some would be ok (West Marches inspired campaigns happen in unsettled wilds, having the map filled with roads and settlements defeats that idea).
My thoughts on a wilderness map: I like Judge's Guild's Wilderlands of High Fantasy as an example of having smaller terrain areas and not bounded by hexes, and especially dislike the map of Mystara (the single terrain nations are an extreme of how I dislike monolithic terrain). Harn is a nice map for showing both vegetation and topography but may not have the type of smaller terrain areas I like.
Thanks for any suggestions
Frank
1. High resolution so I can zoom in on it
2. A wide variety of terrain types, primarily temperate climate, but a map extending to tropical or arctic could be interesting
3. A variety of smaller terrain areas, like marshes along rivers, small forests, etc.
4. Terrain not bounded by hexes, in fact, would prefer a non-hex map
5. Would be cool to have vegetation and topography overlaid so mountains and hills can have varying terrains
6. prefer no signs of civilization, but some would be ok (West Marches inspired campaigns happen in unsettled wilds, having the map filled with roads and settlements defeats that idea).
My thoughts on a wilderness map: I like Judge's Guild's Wilderlands of High Fantasy as an example of having smaller terrain areas and not bounded by hexes, and especially dislike the map of Mystara (the single terrain nations are an extreme of how I dislike monolithic terrain). Harn is a nice map for showing both vegetation and topography but may not have the type of smaller terrain areas I like.
Thanks for any suggestions
Frank