Creating the Campaign #5: Mapping Your World

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In this creating the campaign episode, we go about mapping out your fantasy world, this map will help you when we go about detailing adventures, adding backstories for NPCs, fleshing out where things are relative to your main plot points and will help engage your players into your campaign.

▶ ▶ Timecodes:
00:30 Start
01:48 My map
04:30 Why we make our own maps and how to we translate theme into our map?
06:12 Transportation issues
08:12 Living campaign world or fixed campaigned world
12:16 Unpackaing transport options
16:50 Cultures and using them to map make
19:10 Kingdom designation and design
22:02 how to divide continents into kingdoms
29:18 Final map divided into nations
30:30 Naming our Kingdoms and major cities
37:15 How complex to make your maps
41:00 Next steps

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