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[KaguroDraven]

Ok I have had this fantasy strat for forums in my head for months now. I asked one of my friends to help me with the map, but....well, he's been busy, and while It is mostly finished I doupt he's going to be able to help me rework the map for each update, like showing where people have cities and such. I could really use some help with the map if I get the game started.
This is the map as it is now.

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The green is forests, dark green is jungles, light green planes/grasslands/vallies, light brown is desert, dark brown is jungle, grey is mountains, light blue is frozen snow covered areas and glaciers. The red lines are the fault lines of the world.

[Heron TSG]

Is the white the ocean? Because that's blue.

[Criptfeind]

Creative projects. Also what do you want from us, it is your world, we will need more info to make things on it.

[KaguroDraven]

Barbarossa like I said it isn't completely done yet.
And Criptfeind I wasn't sure if this went there or not.
Now the land is mostly done, and I'm actuilly very happy with it, and the oceans will be rather easy to add. What I mostly need is someone to edit it for me so I can show each side's territory and their cities, as I lack any tools to do such things on this computer.

[lordnincompoop]

You need mountains. They crop up either of two ways: Volcanoes or along fault lines. Not that you have to account for orographic precipitation and rain shadows, cloud movement, wind etc too, so you get deserts on one side and jungles on another like in RL.

Nevermind. I see you have those, but they all seem to be on the wrong side; clouds move in from the sea IIRC, so jungles should be further out. There's a small area of land near the middle almost completely surrounded by mountains, and that definitely shouldn't be getting much rain.

[DJ]

Those red lines seem like pretty clear borders to me. Just use paint to edit in names of kingdoms. Same for cities, just use small red circles with captions.

[Realmfighter]

Red lines are fault lines.

[DJ]

Oh. Well, I see no need to display those, so just use red lines for borders instead.

[lordnincompoop]

Oh. Well, I see no need to display those, so just use red lines for borders instead.

They're useful for making realistic maps. They'll probs be removed later, but as I said you need them to make the surrounding geography; where mountains go, where trees grow and sand dominates.

[Sheb]

Well, since you got a single massive continent, Pangea-style, most of the central plain should be desert.

[KaguroDraven]

Yeah I know it isn't fully realistic, but it's not meant to be. I just wanted a map that would be fun to play on becouse each general type of area is home to species, fantasy and real ones, that make those types of places their home.
Also DJ, the game will start each side as a barly formed city state, one in that cut off area on the east of the central landmass. The sides, due to being cut off from most of the world, don't know much aboutt he lands beyond their home at the beginning, plus the cut off area has few fantasy creatures resideing there. Once each side gets past the mountains they will encounter many species, some with their own civilisiations from tribal to equal to the players, some without. How you react to the creatures you find influences your side's culture, weapons/armor, units(IE allying a troll tribe gets you trolls as units), and even enemies as some tribes or nations dislike one another.

[DJ]

Oh. Well, I see no need to display those, so just use red lines for borders instead.

They're useful for making realistic maps. They'll probs be removed later, but as I said you need them to make the surrounding geography; where mountains go, where trees grow and sand dominates.

I used to do that, and then I realized it's not really needed. Just eyeball it, it's not like player can tell whether you used tectonics or not.

Anyway, I'm not sure what exactly are we supposed to help with here. be more specific, please.

[KaguroDraven]

What I mostly need is someone to edit it for me so I can show each side's territory and their cities, as I lack any tools to do such things on this computer.

I said what I needed mostly, I lack the tools nessicary on this computer, I don't even think I have MS paint on here.

[lordnincompoop]

Yeah I know it isn't fully realistic, but it's not meant to be. I just wanted a map that would be fun to play on becouse each general type of area is home to species, fantasy and real ones, that make those types of places their home.
Also DJ, the game will start each side as a barly formed city state, one in that cut off area on the east of the central landmass. The sides, due to being cut off from most of the world, don't know much aboutt he lands beyond their home at the beginning, plus the cut off area has few fantasy creatures resideing there. Once each side gets past the mountains they will encounter many species, some with their own civilisiations from tribal to equal to the players, some without. How you react to the creatures you find influences your side's culture, weapons/armor, units(IE allying a troll tribe gets you trolls as units), and even enemies as some tribes or nations dislike one another.

Then why the fuck are you using tectonics! Eyeball it!

Oh, and as a GM you are not supposed to have fun with the players. You are supposed to crush them. They are your sworn enemy. Thwart them at every turn, as Tycho would say.

[Virex]

I was going to point out that ecologically, the map doesn't make any sense (Rain forests next to deserts, no rain shadows, no desert belts), but I see you're not going for accuracy in that field. Other then that, if you're looking for ways to depict the different countries, it's probably easiest to make a contour map, showing only where the land ends and the sea starts (and maybe the mountain ridges, though those are usually done using relief shadows and that's hard) and on that map draw the different countries. Height maps, rainfall maps and population density maps could also easily be made starting from a stock contour map, as well as most other kinds of maps (earthquake chance? magic power concentration? Amount of gnoll raids per year? all can be done with the contour map and some shading)