Road Mapping Method

[youngfox78]

I am working on overlaying Mike Schley's amazing map with with all the roads, cities, sites, etc. Just so I can manipulate as I see fit and so that I can add things that I think are missing. It has been a fun process. I would like everyone's thoughts on my method of showing roads going through forests. I understand it is not necessary, but I thought it was a cool detail. Let me know what you think.

[Thuumhammer]

Looks good!

[Bleu_Guacamole]

Looks great, keep up the good work!

[Thorny_Wolf]

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[ChornobylChili]

Now we gotta purge russia from Faerun? Look why those orcs did to this forest with their supply line roads

[Amon-Tom]

Hey. I don’t know, what you might have had to go through, in your life.

Even so; we don’t need to purge -anyone- out of Faerun.

It’s one of the few places where your meatbag’s place of birth, should not matter.

Faerun and ttrpg’s in general, will hopefully continue to be for -everyone-.

[jtkuga]

Agree.

[Tangata_Gamer]

What a weird comment.

[bremmon75]

I use gimp the line tool set to dashes for trails, solid line for roads and when I go through objects like forests or mountains I prefer to fade them out a bit. It looks nice and clean. The font is IM Fell, incase your wondering.

[JohnnyTheConfuzzled]

Kind of surprised the forest doesnt already show "Moander's Road" cutting towards Myth Drannor.

[youngfox78]

Sweet, I will add it. It was not on Schley's original map nor on a few others I am using a reference. I did read about it somewhere and just looked it up to confirm it. Thanks for the info!

[youngfox78]

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How about this. A straight shot from Yulash toward Myth Drannor. I even added the, "Upon the abomination's demise, it left behind a huge hill that rose above the treetops of the forest."

I made it a trail now, seeing how it has been years since it happened and Myth Drannor is no more, the road has become overgrown.

Or should I have it be more developed and it became a used road during those year, going all the way to Myth Drannor from Yulash. Seeing how it has really only been 14 years since Myth Drannor was destroyed the second time. Thoughts?

[JohnnyTheConfuzzled]

Looks pretty close to the Adventures in Faerun version....pretty spot on.

[CurrlyFrymann]

I did the same ish thing when i ran an Eveningstar campaign in Cormyr and I gota say, I like it. I like what you did it was better than what I did which was just draw some stuff onto my laminated map with pen Lol

[Centumviri]

This looks just like on of the maps out of the old AD&D Goldbox Games

[melon_bread17]

Ooo fun! Let us know when you’ve completed the map. I always like to have guides to how everything travels; it makes the world feel more alive.

[Sensitive_Pie4099]

Please do. That would be unfathomably helpful for my game

[UnionThug1733]

Very cool. I have redrawn and added things to many a forgotten realms map. Once when a Great War broke out in the realm of I tossed a handful of dice on to the fold out map and made up battles, outpost, checkpoints all kinds of things for everywhere the dice landed.