Pro tip for USians DMing a TTRPG - Just make your map some section of the globe from eastern Europe or Asia.
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Pro tip for USians DMing a TTRPG - Just make your map some section of the globe from eastern Europe or Asia. Nobody will recognize the geography anyways.
@JessTheUnstill Not that I've ever DM'd anything more than a one-shot, but I love the idea of making maps. I've been doodling them here and there for years. One of the most fun things in this area happened a few years ago when I spilled water on some cheap graph paper: as the water dried, everything that was inside the puddle was erased, leaving very island/continent-looking blobs with clear coastlines.
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Pro tip for USians DMing a TTRPG - Just make your map some section of the globe from eastern Europe or Asia. Nobody will recognize the geography anyways.
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange As a European, I've never done anything like basing an entire fantasy campaign in Texas. Admittedly only because the players could never find a good time to actually play...
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange As a European, I've never done anything like basing an entire fantasy campaign in Texas. Admittedly only because the players could never find a good time to actually play...
@mavnn And then there's games like Deadlands that are canonically based in post apocalypse/ alt history US
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Pro tip for USians DMing a TTRPG - Just make your map some section of the globe from eastern Europe or Asia. Nobody will recognize the geography anyways.
@JessTheUnstill
Back in high school, I did that - took a part of Indonesia flipped it and added extra made-up details to disguise that… and one of my classmates took a look and 3 seconds later said, “That’s Indonesia, isn’t it?” -
@mavnn And then there's games like Deadlands that are canonically based in post apocalypse/ alt history US
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange oh yes. In one of my urban fantasy campaigns Seattle got removed from time (don't worry, the PCs rescued it mostly because that's where they kept all their stuff).
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@JessTheUnstill
Back in high school, I did that - took a part of Indonesia flipped it and added extra made-up details to disguise that… and one of my classmates took a look and 3 seconds later said, “That’s Indonesia, isn’t it?”@demi Hah fair enough. Some people are geography nerds.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange oh yes. In one of my urban fantasy campaigns Seattle got removed from time (don't worry, the PCs rescued it mostly because that's where they kept all their stuff).
@mavnn Maybe the rescue can be selective and not include the billionaires' mansions and corps.
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@mavnn Maybe the rescue can be selective and not include the billionaires' mansions and corps.
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange if I remember correctly, it ended with a Sailor Moon like 'reincarnation of a fabled ruler' ending if Sailor Moon was a grumpy vampire played by a left wing hippy and with a court of extremely powerful mages at least one of whom got power indirectly from people nearby being healthy and emotional stable. We didn't talk about the aftermath much, but I suspect it would not have been good for the billionaires...
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Pro tip for USians DMing a TTRPG - Just make your map some section of the globe from eastern Europe or Asia. Nobody will recognize the geography anyways.
@JessTheUnstill literally how militaries train - fake country names that overlay on real geography
(I’m honestly not sure if that makes it better or worse)
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@JessTheUnstill literally how militaries train - fake country names that overlay on real geography
(I’m honestly not sure if that makes it better or worse)
@TindrasGrove Interesting
It makes sense to have realistic biomes and geography for that sort of use case as well. -
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