I stumbled across this on reddit, and thought you may enjoy it. It's a reader submitted RPG fantasy map for a dark/gritty realism campaign - The Dangerlands

Someone needs to contact the 50 sHAdes of VORpal on Kickstarter to make this his default setting!

There have been a couple of these parody fantasy maps posted online. If I ever run Dungeon Crawl Classics, I will use them all as-is for my campaign world.

Thanks for sharing this.

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;856505There have been a couple of these parody fantasy maps posted online. If I ever run Dungeon Crawl Classics, I will use them all as-is for my campaign world.

My homebrew DCC setting actually is pretty much inspired by a similar map... and the one from Divine Right. Only significant difference is that the areas shift and move around each other... and there's an additional area for 'things that come from space'.

Completely unlike my maps/10

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eh. needs way more tropes.

My God, it's full of stars!

Oh no!  The Stars Are Right!

(This really needs an arrow at the map's edge labeled "Invasion Route of the Unstoppable Great Chaos Army.")

When people suggest that this or that dullness is EVERYTHING they've EVER seen, I can only pity them.

In my own experience, fantasy campaign worlds bought off the store shelf have been the exception rather than the rule. Among those, Tekumel, Glorantha, Jorune and Talislanta have been notable.

What's up then with FRPers no longer actually reading fantasy? Why no inspiration from (for instance):
Amber
the Belgariad
the Birthgrave
the Black Company
Count Brass and the Runestaff
Darkover
Lovecraft's Dreamlands
the Dying Earth
the Hyborian Age
Imaro
Kane
Lord of the Isles
the Kingdom of the East
the Land
Leigh Brackett's Mars
C.J. Cherryh's Morgan
Nehwon
Neveryon
Nifft the Lean
the Pastel City
Dunsany's Pegana
Prydain
Recluce
Tiana Highrider
Salmonson's Tomoe Gozen
Tschai
the Well of the Unicorn
the Witch World
the Worm Ouroboros
the World of Tiers
the Young Kingdoms
Zimiamvia
Zothique

Those books are out of fashion.  Most people frankly only read new books if they read at all, and the vast majority of what's been published in the last 20 years is "EPIC HEROIC FANTASY."

What, RPGers actually reading fantasy?  As opposed to the occasional Dragonlance book, or getting their fantasy information from the latest iteration of the Monster Manual?  Perish the thought.  But ...

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;856881Those books are out of fashion.  Most people frankly only read new books if they read at all, and the vast majority of what's been published in the last 20 years is "EPIC HEROIC FANTASY."

... to be fair, what constituted the "fantasy" people were reading in the 60s and 70s?  It wasn't Dunsany or Morris or MacDonald.  We read authors published (or heavily reprinted) within the previous 20 years: Leiber, Tolkien, Moorcock, Lewis, LeGuin, Kurtz, Howard and Walton.

Quote from: Ravenswing;856946... to be fair, what constituted the "fantasy" people were reading in the 60s and 70s?  It wasn't Dunsany or Morris or MacDonald.  We read authors published (or heavily reprinted) within the previous 20 years: Leiber, Tolkien, Moorcock, Lewis, LeGuin, Kurtz, Howard and Walton.

I might have read all of them. It depends, I guess, on whether you meant William Morris or Kenneth Morris. I had and read the 1970 Ballantine printing of William Morris' Well at the World's End.

I'm not certain whether or not I've read Kenneth Morris. I read at least one or two versions of the tales of the Mabinogion in the 1970s. One was Evangeline Walton's and the other was probably Lady Guest's. The version I liked the best was something I read in the 1980s. Sadly, I don't recall which version that was, but I greatly enjoyed the poetic use of superlatives piled on top of superlatives.


* I did read  a few books in his friend Talbot Mundy's Tros of Samothrace series though.

the map reminds me of another map http://eotbeholder.deviantart.com/art/The-Only-Fantasy-World-Map-245738593

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;856881Those books are out of fashion.  Most people frankly only read new books if they read at all, and the vast majority of what's been published in the last 20 years is "EPIC HEROIC FANTASY."

Hell most of the gamers I know barely read fantasy at all, stock rpg fantasy is it's own self referential genre that most of them are already familiar with. Part of the reason I love a group of non-gamers is that they aren't expecting much so they don't bitch when the setting is more Howard or Dunsany and less standard pseudo-Tolkien.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;856881Those books are out of fashion.  Most people frankly only read new books if they read at all, and the vast majority of what's been published in the last 20 years is "EPIC HEROIC FANTASY."

I'm guessing you haven't read actually much new fantasy in the last 20 years.