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Found this one today. I like world maps that have cosmography kinda built in. Super high quality for printing/photobashing.
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Real world floor plans rarely “work”, in the sense that gameplay rules and real life rules are rarely aligned. One exception is this map of a maze in Versailles. Nice loops here, nice choke points. Really no notes. You can close off those two top exits if you want a ONE IN ONE OUT dungeon.
Decent sized image below:
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I started collecting Medieval / Renaissance / Baroque / Classicist Vedutas of interesting cities. I find them both inspirational and when marked properly, the can serve as maps with Points of Interests. See the two examples from the Czech town of Znojmo.
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oh yea! what I love about these is that they fit very well with point crawls for cities. what I do is turn the points of interest into nodes. then give the players this view of the city (i’ll Photoshop in the fantasy bits), as a handout. in game-- its their view of the city from the approach. like, you say, oh, you see a city ahead, and these are the famous neighborhoods and monuments.
then i’ll loosely base the point crawl on that view. I think that nicely simulates visiting a city. like, people know vaguely where to go. but not exactly. like, they know the relative positions of things, but not the exact positions. they have to ask directions, or get kinda lost, etc.
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Here’s a real map from Jewel Cave, over 200 miles mapped out. Red is deeper, yellow shallower
It would be an interesting base to build out a megadungeon from, and serves as a good reminder how idealised and rationalised our ttrpg view of caves is.
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While we are thinking about actual underground spaces, this is a nice sized real dungeon: The Sala Silver Mine. Which is now a hotel.
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That one is pretty great. Is it depicting a real place?
yeap! cool history and language spoken there:
Man Helgoland is beautiful. Went there once when in high school. Spent the whole week birdwatching
Hi!
I’m looking for fantasy maps without pseudo-/medieval castles on them.
Here’s an example but any style would do, and black and white contrasts would be better
Where should I look?
you can get lost here: https://www.davidrumsey.com/
but those are historic maps. did you specifically want modern fantasy genre maps? honestly, i’ve never really looked for a collection of those, but I wouldn’t mind taking a deep dive and trying to find them.
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Thank you for the pointer!
I can make do with post apoc, weirdpunk and solarpunk maps.