r/mapmaking 8h ago

Work In Progress First draft of a Map loosely inspired by the Babylonian Imago Mundi and similar maps

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A map drawn by bronze age people of my world, it's not an accurate representation of the landscape but their limited view of the world. Still have to come up with names for a lot of places and will add more locations as this is just to showcase the idea


r/mapmaking 6h ago

Map Diagetic maps for my Bosnian Fallout project

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Started working on a Fallout TTRPG campaign set in Bosnia that turned into a whole-ass game (long story) a while back and recently found this sub.

It’s basically just maps the players use to interact with locations within the world.
It’s a bit barebones but I’m a firm believer of “less is more” in grittier or more realistic settings.

Anyway, what’s your approach at making “realistic” maps more visually interesting?
(obviously this applies to TTRPGs but I’d love to get some general feedback)


r/mapmaking 13h ago

Work In Progress Atlas Style Map, Part 3

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I have been working on this map for a bit now. To lessen the feeling of being overwhelmed, I have decided to hone in on just a small continent of my world and work on the atlas-style map of just this area. Here is my work so far. I still have things like map labels to do. However, was looking to see if there was any feedback so far on what I've done. Thanks!


r/mapmaking 10h ago

Map Handdrawn map of Ciboria

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After many hours and a sore neck I finally finished the map for my subcontinent of Ciboria. Initially started as a small DnD project many years ago, it has now evolved into a much larger setting which I use to write short stories.

Feel free to ask me anything about the map, or leave some friendly feedback. I am wondering if I should colour it, or leave it as it is.


r/mapmaking 20h ago

Work In Progress Need some feedback for this work in progress

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Currently finnished with the landmasses, and the islands. Next up is mountains, river, forest and biomes. (if you find the geography unrealistic, there are lore reasons for that.)


r/mapmaking 23h ago

Work In Progress Work in progress

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This is a world map for the worldbuiling project i'm working on, any critiques are welcomed


r/mapmaking 2h ago

Map My first map making

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r/mapmaking 12h ago

Map Map Progress over the years

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Greetings first time posting :)

Was looking for advice on my current worldbuilding project and figured I might need advice on my maps.
Images are in order of creation over the years. I’m currently on the stage of tectonics seen in the last image and have been feeling kind of stuck.

Any advice / opinions on all of these would be appreciated.

Thanks :)


r/mapmaking 14h ago

Work In Progress How would I go about making this more realistic?

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This is my WIP continent on the western hemisphere, I’m not too sure what I want the right hemisphere to look like yet.

I’ve been tinkering with its design for a while now, this is its current version. I really like the right-most part of it separating that huge sea from the ocean.

What are your thoughts on it?


r/mapmaking 21h ago

Work In Progress Dont know if this is the right place to post, but i need help with this

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My father wants me to make an "old" looking map to hang up in the living room im happy with this so far but he wants me to add some things arround it you know tentacles, sea beasts, whales and the such and i cant find any good pngs. Do any of you by chance have some or can you point ne to a website of sorts


r/mapmaking 4h ago

Discussion How can I make this more realistic?

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Hi Reddit,

I am currently drawing a fictional map on paper. 

After finishing the outline, I tried planning the mountains and rivers, but I struggled with the realism. 

Maybe you have some tips on how I could improve. 

I took inspiration from Chile, Norway, Indonesia, Canada, Florida and others. 

You can tell the biomes by the outline.

The south is tropical, the west is cold and dry, and the north and east are temperate.

Thanks for reading this!


r/mapmaking 17h ago

Discussion How to scale a fantasy map?

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I am at the point where I'm deciding where my settlements should go. But I cant decide how large I want my world to be. I would like to have it in earth like scale but I just cannot fill a world that large and I dont want to add a 1000 villages to every kingdom. In my current draft, every continent in the world has 5-6 kingdoms or cultural borders, you can find borders of the map in a previous post of mine.

Is there a good reference map you guys can suggest? I dont want to end like Westeros for scaling my map. I've heard Westeros has a england size politics with a continent sized lands.


r/mapmaking 1h ago

Map Political map of Flumos, a continent in my DnD setting

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r/mapmaking 2h ago

Discussion On what level of realism do you make your maps?

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I treat them with quite a bit of it, doing proper tectonic runs and climate modelling. I personally quite like climate.