@DarkWorm-like creatures always freak me out, especially centipedes. Any small creature with pincers or no legs, really. >_>
What were your ideas for the game play mechanics, by the way? SRPG or some kind of XCOM-like tactics system? Looks like you could get something Fire Emblem style with that design.
By the way, I think your main landmass looks quite like a very fat bloodhound with its legs cut off (the front left one was left with a little bone nub), wearing a small hat, having its back on fire and with a foot growing off of its snout. I'm sorry if this ends up with you redrawing your map because you can't un-see it. xD
Anyway, this is basically an introductory post. I doubt any later ones will have quite so much writing and stuff in them.
Since I'm new here, I'll just put up a few random things. I'm a semi-veteran forum signature/phone background maker (working with renders in particular, I don't enjoy using stocks) and 'aspiring' artist (I say aspiring because while I am very interested in learning to draw, I need to get a tablet for the kind of stuff I want to do and that seems to be taking far too long) .
Assorted signatures. Quality may be spotty since they're from all over the place timeline-wise. I'm very off-and-on when it comes to these things, hence why I'm only passable despite having technically been doing it for about 4-5 years now.
Two phone backgrounds. The images get massively larger when viewed on a computer because the ppi between monitors and phones is so different. I actually have trouble making these, because my normal resources tend to only baaaarely fit.
These two drawings were done in Photoshop without reference using a computer mouse (since I don't have a tablet). It was an ungodly pain in the ass but I wasn't expecting them to look half-decent, surprisingly they ended up quite well (for me at least). I guess that's the power of digital drawing. It almost feels like cheating, but once I'm doing more complicated stuff it probably won't. xD
Last but not least, one two year old pencil drawing done free hand using this (
http://www.itattooz.com/itattooz/Scary/Reaper/itattooz-grim-reaper-angel-tattoo.jpg) as a reference. (Not that exact image, but a very similar one. This drawing seems to be a pretty popular one.)
Obviously the reference is of vastly superior quality, but I thought it was quite good considering I'd never really drawn before at that point. >_>
In case you can't tell, I haven't improved all that much over the years, mostly due to lack of dedicated practice.
Apologies for the terrible image quality and lighting. It was taken by a crappy phone camera as I have no scanner (the image itself was taken two years ago as well.)
Ending notes:
As a signature maker, I'm a bit sad that these forums have an insanely tiny image size limit for signatures (though it's understandable. >_>)
Also, is it just me or is it impossible to stack spoilers? I wanted to have far less writing cluttering up the page but I couldn't spoiler spoilers.