Tweet of the Day, Apparently Map-Haters Are A Thing edition.

I’ve never experienced this for myself, but the tone is so instantly believable that I cannot help but believe that there are people who do this in real life. Then again, I do a plurality of my creative work in alternate/secret history stuff, which does tend to cut down on the need for new physical maps.  So for all I know there are entire forums where people do this sort of thing for real.

9 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, Apparently Map-Haters Are A Thing edition.”

  1. I take it part of the joke is that the map is just Europe turned 90 degrees with Spain removed, Ireland relocated and the North Sea compressed..

  2. As some one whose primary metric for Fantasy books is “Does it have a cool map?” I often look through an IRL atlas and think, “Dang, you really can’t make some of this stuff up.”

    2. The fun thing, is that a lot of geographic features are fractal. Trace a coastline of an island, and you can use it for part of a continent.

  3. My phone won’t zoom enough to read the comments!
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    I actually studied cartography. Right up until it became obvious that I can’t draw. Bit of an impediment, that.
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    I can still cobble together a series of maps for a campaign, but I don’t do such large scale maps. If nothing else, they’re an open invitation for the players to run away from their accumulated problems.

      1. He did, at that.
        But GMs are bound by rules and social expectations in a way that omnipotent deities aren’t. PCs have agency, it’s their thing. They have a great deal of say in what type of story is being told.

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