{"id":514,"date":"2005-10-26T05:27:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T10:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=514"},"modified":"2005-10-25T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T20:27:53","slug":"fantasy-mapmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/10\/26\/fantasy-mapmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Mapmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve talked about this before, but not recently.<br \/>\nI love maps.  I love looking at them.  I love drawing them.  Maps can make an otherwise confusing travel story clear or just spark my imagination to new ideas about how geography effects the world.  As a result, I&#8217;m always looking for more ideas about making my own maps.  I use a lot of different tools to make maps, but mainly I use Campaign Cartographer.  Though, the tools don&#8217;t really matter as much as good technique.  And, I know that my technique is pretty weak these days.  So, when I saw <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/melkot.com\/mechanics\/map-guide.html\">Maldin&#8217;s Greyhawk &#8211; A Guide to Mapmaking<\/a>, by Denis Tetreault, one of the main cartographers for Wizards of the Coast, publishers of Dungeons and Dragons, I got really excited.<br \/>\nSure, much of the information is a rehash of things I&#8217;ve read elsewhere, but plenty of it is new stuff.  And, what&#8217;s more, it gives a nice look into the mind of a professional fantasy cartographer.  How often do you find that kind of information?  Right, not very often.  That&#8217;s why I linked to it and suggest that, if you have any interest in fantasy map making, you check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve talked about this before, but not recently. I love maps. I love looking at them. I love drawing them. Maps can make an otherwise confusing travel story clear or just spark my imagination to new ideas about how geography effects the world. As a result, I&#8217;m always looking for more ideas about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9,27,21,18,15],"tags":[684,683,685],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-fun","category-games","category-invented-worlds","category-maps-and-mapping","tag-a-lot-of-different-tools","tag-denis-tetreault","tag-otherwise-confusing-travel-story-clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}