This method of map creation is creatively simple, effective, and consistently replicable. It's a truly fantastic design philosophy! I've used a comparable approach for PC reputation and NPC followers homesickness design. Followers are reluctance to venture significantly beyond established borderlands without coin. In my campaigns, followers are valuable assets, though they are characterized more as opportunistic escorts than dedicated mercenaries.
I would love to play an expanded version if you ever make one! Really enjoyed Cartographer the map making game and could see this filling a similar space
This + Spark Tables or even some Mythic Bastionland location types (dwelling, blight, monument, etc.) could become dangerous (for my free time) real fast.
Great idea. If you expand, I’d love to see what form that takes.
This is so cool. I liked the “whenever you roll the same number, double its importance” instead of re rolling it. May I translate this to Spanish and use in further posts? Of course with due credit 👍🏼
I've been discovering the "universal dungeon terrain" and, as a fan of mechanics/models that repeat themselves at different scales, this looks like it would be an *amazing* way to do the cartography for a game that foregrounds UDT and zone-based activity like Shadowdark or Deathbringer. This is beautiful, thank you!
Wow! This looks like a lot of fun to have at the table, especially if you make this activity in collaboration with the players.
Would you mind if I translated it into Portuguese?
I'd like to share it with the Brazilian ttrpg community.
Please do! Share it far and wide.
This method of map creation is creatively simple, effective, and consistently replicable. It's a truly fantastic design philosophy! I've used a comparable approach for PC reputation and NPC followers homesickness design. Followers are reluctance to venture significantly beyond established borderlands without coin. In my campaigns, followers are valuable assets, though they are characterized more as opportunistic escorts than dedicated mercenaries.
Oh! That's intriguing! I hadn't thought about liking the two, but it makes perfect sense.
Love it! But I’m confused on one point - how does a roll of 3d12 map to the values of 9-12 for a capital?
You use the same table, of course, but you could always roll 1-8 on a d12.
So your capital might be a farming community with a temple.
Mind ended up being livestock and a double temple, so I added some cows and a bull-headed god.
Absolutely amazing way of mapping a start region.
Thanks! It starts to build on itself quickly, I find.
Love this!
This is a great way to do it!
I just keep making them now…
Excellent. Clean. Well-thought. Chef's kiss.
Thanks!
Simple, clean, easy to use... Great, great idea.
This is awesome, could become a fun little mapping game in its own right!
It's starting to become that for me. Might need to expand.
I would love to play an expanded version if you ever make one! Really enjoyed Cartographer the map making game and could see this filling a similar space
I think I'm blending that and Ex Novo
Ooh that's a new one for me but looks awesome - cheers for the rec haha! Good luck with your project sounds like it will be sick
I love this—and like all great ideas it seems so obvious.
Very cool.
Love it! Elegance in simplicity is so underrated
Right? You don't need much.
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing this!
This + Spark Tables or even some Mythic Bastionland location types (dwelling, blight, monument, etc.) could become dangerous (for my free time) real fast.
Great idea. If you expand, I’d love to see what form that takes.
This is so cool. I liked the “whenever you roll the same number, double its importance” instead of re rolling it. May I translate this to Spanish and use in further posts? Of course with due credit 👍🏼
I've been discovering the "universal dungeon terrain" and, as a fan of mechanics/models that repeat themselves at different scales, this looks like it would be an *amazing* way to do the cartography for a game that foregrounds UDT and zone-based activity like Shadowdark or Deathbringer. This is beautiful, thank you!