Recently, my PCs have been in a more exploratory and adventurous mood than is typical of them. They usually like to hang out in villages and cities and have more urban social adventures. So, I found myself in need of overland maps pretty quickly. I decided to assign land-type values to each face of a d6, corresponding to plains, water (river, lake, ocean), swamp, mountains, forests, and deserts, grabbed a hand full of dice and tossed them on a sheet of paper.
I've already posted this initial idea on the internet, but here I wanted to show my work. Since I also recently decided to learn watercolors, I decided to haphazardly slap on some colors over the notations.
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| It's no Audubon or O'Keeffe, but it'll do. |
Maybe next time I'll slap the paint on some hex grid paper first, and work out "point of interest" and civilizations too.
What do you do if you need maps in a pinch?
