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title: "Fantasy Map Making: A step-by-step guide for worldbuilders"
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# Fantasy Map Making: A step-by-step guide for worldbuilders

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## Customer Reviews

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    Very Basic Introduction to Fantasy Cartography for the Absolute Beginner
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2018*

I have been a fantasy and science fiction cartographer for almost 25 years.  This was a very simple read, lots of whitespace, done in a casual, hands-on folksy manner with examples. This is for the absolute beginner Gamer or Fantasy novelist who is curious or wants to design a basic map, but has no idea how or where to start.  If you are already using Gimp, Photoshop, Campaign Cartographer 3(+), Hexographer, or  Inkarnate, you can skip this text as you already have the tools this author recommends.  Not really in depth, the author covers the basics of continent outline, climate bands, groundcover very basic tectonics, more or less at an early high school level of overview. So if you have a teenage child starting out as a GM, this would be an okay starter.  If you are an aspiring novelist looking for a really deep worldbuilding resource, this is not that sort of in-depth treatment.  It is nice that the author goes step by step, with some color graphics examples showing how to do a basic continent, some forests, cities, mountains, and rivers, with Campaign Cartographer at a very very introductory level, ending with a very simple map. The author is also encouraging, and seems to be actively promoting the community, via twitter / social media.

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    Falls Short of Expectations
  

*by U***T on Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2019*

I'll give the book credit that it does have some useful perspectives like tectonic plates and climate implications on the realism of a world map.  However, This book fell way short of my expectations.  There is no good step by step DETAILS of actually MAKING the map itself.  For example, I'm looking at including a forest and desert region on my map, what icons or graphics should I use to represent these?  Nothing even close to that is in this book.  In fact there aren't ANY GOOD examples of actual fantasy maps.  And definitely not enough information for someone to actually sit down and draw a good map.  The book gives you tips for THINKING about what a good map should have in generalities, but in my mind it really missed the mark as far as an actual Guide for map making.  I also purchased "How to draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps" by Jared Blando which I found to be much more helpful.  Although it still lacked the samples I'm looking for like a legend / sample of different forest types, landscapes, and various ways of drawing certain features.  Honestly, I wouldn't recommend Fantasy Map Making for people who want to actually draw their own maps.  You can get all this same high level info off of a few youtube videos and free online reading.

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    A good start, but a bit disappointing.
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2016*

OK as far as it goes. A brief intro to the intellectual processes involved in designing a fantasy world  map. For the price, i would have liked more. For example, a more extensive list of software, and some work-in-progress illustrations showing how a map can be built up step by step, and the consequences of making one choice rather than another.The book is also a mechanism for marketing the author's software. I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is including a link inside the book which doesn't work, also having to search through many webpages for over ten minutes to find out what technical platform the software requires (it is Windows).There are also some minor typographic issues.This book has good bones and there is nothing wrong with the basic approach it takes to the topic. The problem is, it's a bit rough and ready, and ultimately I was disappointed by what I got for the money.

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