I drew this little map for myself, for a little RPG called Under Hill, By Water, written by Josh McCrowell.
The game includes a map for players to add to and draw on, but I wanted to make my own map from scratch, for the fun of it.
I created a couple of characters, too. Miss Larkspur Longshot, a fletcher, who resides at number 1 on the map; and Mister Olliver "Ollie" Underfoot, an antiquarian, who resides at number 13 on the map. The proprietor of the Whistle & Pig is Chuffnell "Chuffy" Alesmith. The inn is renowned for the quality of its stews.
That's as far as I have gotten. The title page of the game says "This game is about capturing your aunt's escaped ornery goat", "This game is about growing the biggest turnip for the Harvest Festival", "This game is about gathering rare ingredients for a birthday feast", "This game is about being simple and silly". It's not designed as a solo RPG, and there are mentions of a GM and other players, but I'll see what can do solo.
ETA: I played a little bit of a Walking Holiday, an expansion to the above game, and drew up this map for a little jaunt by 3 halflings around some of the area surrounding the village.
Nice Map!
ReplyDeleteExcellent looking map, sounds like it could be fun and suit your collection of figures!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks, guys!
ReplyDeleteI do have a nice collection of halfling minis, including a good number of civilians.
I have now also populated the rest of the village.
Just discovered your update! Fantastic! 110% on the Whimsy scale
DeleteThanks! Whimsy is "my jam", as they used to say. :lol:
DeleteI absolutely ADORE this charming little map. I LOVE maps, in general. There is a special place in my heart for illustrated maps and this is ticking all the boxes!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tim!
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I still want to play more with this little RPG and the supplement for journeying beyond the village a bit. Not sure when I will get to that. Sometimes I just like creating the places and mapping them. :D
Ha-ha! Yeah, I have made SO MANY maps over the decades of worlds and continents and countries and cities and towns that never got explored by anyone other than me, in my own mind... (not to mention plans for castles and forts and mansions - haunted or otherwise - dungeons caverns and hovels!) So I get it...
DeleteIt's like it's more fun to make characters with certain systems than it is to play the actual game. Like Traveler... I always thought it was funny that you basically play retirees having often lived a full life of adventure... theyre going to continue adventuring well into their twilight years... I don't know. If I retired a colonel from the Imperial Army with a million credits of mustering out benefits, I feel like I might want to take it easy...
I've had sessions of making up characters with the Savage Worlds Fantasy Character Generator which is a book full of tables for every imaginable aspect of a character (there are tables for how many siblings you have... if they're alive or dead and what theyr'e up to... and what your sibling thinks of you...) When you're done you have a VERY fully rounded character with a VERY detailed backstory... which are sometimes amazing, and other times completely unplayable!?
Yes! Sometimes it's just as fun (or more so) to create characters and places and maps and drawings or paint up minis for characters as it is to play an adventure. I used to make maps of places I made up even as a little kid, long before getting into RPGs.
ReplyDeleteI might have to look into that SW fantasy character generator. Yeah, I played with Traveller character generation back in the day without doing anything with the characters after that, like I suspect many people did. :D
The ONLY major problem I had with the Savage Worlds Fantasy Character Generator was that I felt there should have been a modifier to the status based on the characters age. It was odd to end up rolling up a really old character (80-100 years old for a human)... but then rolling on the parents status chart and having them both Alive and Well!?
DeleteThere were a few other weird things that might turn up... but I just tweaked things where necessary...
I wonder if they ever updated it!? The version I have would be from over 15 years ago!?