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The Past is Ahead! I’m here to equip you with classic hand drawn maps that immerse adventurers in worlds old and new. 100% Human Made.
Joined April 2022
Middle-earth is meant to be Earth in a distant, mythic past. Tolkien calls it an “imaginary period of history,” not another world. Good question, this is something most people don’t realize.
@MapEffects Why does a different planet have the same calendar as Earth? Does that mean it is set in the distant future and actually everyone we see had ancestors from Earth who settled there?
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Did you know the Fellowship sets out from Rivendell on December 25th? 🎄 Lord of the Rings is a Christmas movie
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Harry Potter…Christmas or Halloween movie? Help me settle a marital…disagreement 😝
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I’m not sure what to do about Sparta…Help! 😂 I’ve messed with a few designs and just haven’t been satisfied with them. One suggestion was to use the Λ (lambda) symbol, but from what I can tell that only gets associated with Sparta around the 4th century BC. Which doesn’t fit
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Need some help getting started with The City Map Builder? Here’s some tips on not only creating walls, but adding some color and shading. 👇
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The best stories are immersive. A map is more than just a tool for navigation, it inspires exploration and gives another way to engage your readers or players.
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City Builders! Did you get my email with the free Christmas present yet? 🎁 Here’s a teaser of the 20+ mining themed brushes I just added to the collection.
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Bros, wake up Map Effects just gave you free brushes. Merry Christmas
🎁 Attention City Map Builders! I’m finishing up a free Christmas gift for you to add some mining features to your maps. ⛏️ Keep an eye on your email tomorrow!
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Every fantasy world is a mixture of familiar and strange. How strange will depend on your preferences and what matters so you. The imperial system is practical based on average proportions of the human body. You step things off in feet. A finger joint gives you an inch. A mile
@MapEffects This brings up a quandary I'm having. I'm working on a fantasy world (with maps!), but how much do you bring over from the "real" world? For instance, are measurements in miles? kilometers? Foglpoofs? What's the balance of using real world terms to maintain familiarity and
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🎁 Attention City Map Builders! I’m finishing up a free Christmas gift for you to add some mining features to your maps. ⛏️ Keep an eye on your email tomorrow!
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Now, to be fair…there are a few cartographers that I just love their work. But…even then, I am probably going to select which map I display based on what it’s depicting, whether it’s a fantasy world or real location…it will have prior meaning to me beyond the aesthetic.
Feel like nobody cares about your map? Because they don’t. …Yet
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For the map of The Iliad I’ve been working on, Pylos is marked by Nestor’s cup, described by Homer as too heavy for any man but Nestor to lift. An odd image for an aged king and one of the last living links to an earlier heroic world. What do you think Homer means?
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Feel like nobody cares about your map? Because they don’t. …Yet
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Is this accurate? What’s up with the French?
I’m convinced that this map is reflecting reality perfectly.
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The moral of the story is you can be the greatest warrior hero in history…and still die a dumb death at the hand of an idiot.
I didn’t like how Troy ended because a coward like Paris killed the great Achilles...
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I was there…
Us millennials who were kids prior to the smartphone era are like Tolkien’s elves who were the last to see the light of the Two Trees. We Calaquendi raising the Moriquendi.
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