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Jerry’s Map

August 24, 2011 in Inspirations, Links, Worldbuilding | No comments

If you like world building or even just map-making, you should watch Jerry’s Map on Vimeo and read the guy’s (sadly fairly empty) blog. He has been working on a constantly-evolving, huge map since 1963.

Finally, this vimeo video has some great shots of Jerry’s Map mounted on a wall.

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LoveThesePics.com posted a photo gallery about a Tour of the abandoned Fix Flags amusement park in New Orleans. Very creepy photos, and very post-apocalyptic. Absolutely reminds me of Wasteland or Fallout. The park could easily be the HQ of the Killer Clowns, which is probably a staple of Postapocalyptica.

The site seems to have some pretty cool photo galleries in general… awesome for inspiration.

July 13, 2011 | No comments

Links – June

June 30, 2011 in Links, Worldbuilding | No comments

World Building Links

Other Sites

Tools

  • Nuke it – Tool that shows the effects of nuclear weapons on a map – perfect for youzr WWIII or dystopian future novels.
  • Impact Earth – Calculate the effects of an asteroid impact on Earth

Worlds on the Web

  • Tellur – Developed by cartogriffi on his weblog.
  • This Orb – Attempt to build an ultra-realistic conworld; awesome map work.
  • Forgotten Futures – RPG Settings based on public domain science fiction settings, like Lost World or Weinbaum’s Sci Fi short-stories.
  • Conworld News Corporation – News from conworlds, rather than about conworlds.
  • Constructed Worlds Wiki – Has various designs.
  • The Accounts of Thyrenacia – Very well done but hasn’t been updated in a while it seems; I like their maps.
  • The Artifact is a science fiction role-playing game/setting centered around an artificial, roughly egg-shaped world

Tsojcanth had an awesome idea, one-page-dungeon designs in an organizer like notepad booklet. Whatever do you call those? Anyway, he took small notebook and put maps and notes into it. I absolutely love this idea, and I am going to steal it – I put some of these notebooks into my Amazon shopping cart already.

June 27, 2011 | No comments

I’m listening to Episode 156 of The Tome Podcast, a discussion of World Building with Keith Baker, creator of Eberron. Excellent discussion – check it out.

June 24, 2011 | No comments

Talislanta is available as a free download from the creator. Awesome!

June 19, 2011 | No comments

Creating Franchises

June 1, 2011 in Links | No comments

Found in my link archives: io9 had a – very basic – story about creating franchises a long time ago.

Links – May 2011

May 17, 2011 in Links | No comments

This time, I’ll mostly link to various articles instead of “permanent” resources… Enjoy.

  • Abandoned Stations is a site that details various abandoned/unused subway stations, including their history, maps, pictures, schematics, and so on. A treasure trove if you are into that sort of thing. These stations would make great locations for adventures!
  • Djeryv is running a D&D campaign based on The Bard’s Tale for his kids. I always wanted to do something like this, never got around to it. He doesn’t go into a lot of detail and it sounds like he’s improvising a lot but that’s not a bad thing.
  • A George R. R. Martin interview in two parts.
  • Imaginary places and their Imaginary Castles contest.
  • The beginning of a science fiction “sandbox” campaign and thoughts on a “Thousand Suns” setting, an alternative to the “Imperial future” space setting trope (I see Voyagers as a bit of a mix between the two).

 

Abandoned Stations is a site that details various abandoned/unused subway stations, including their history, maps, pictures, schematics, and so on. A treasure trove if you are into that sort of thing. These stations would make great locations for adventures!

Links for April 2011

April 7, 2011 in Links, Worldbuilders, Worldbuilding | No comments

Here are more links that I thought are useful or inspiring:

Worldbuilding:

Maps and Cartography:

  • Sci Maps – Awesome maps about all kinds of scientific topics.

Worlds on the Web:

  • This Orb – Creating a science fiction planet in great – and realistic – detail
  • The Torn World – Has some nice maps and artwork, worth checking out

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Titan Rebuilding

April 3, 2011 in Links, Worldbuilders, Worldbuilding | No comments

Found by accident – There’s a mailing list that is attempting to “rebuild” the Titan conworld, setting of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Andrew Wright posted about the Titan geography, and this is an interesting read: It turns out (to probably no great surprise) that the worldbuilding way back then was a little inconsistent (Geography of Titan Part 1 and Part 2).

If you have a spot for fantasy nostalgia in your heart, you should head over and take a look.

Edit: He posted Part 3 and the Geography of Allansia.

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