Creation Corner - Worldbuilders with Pat

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Creation Corner: It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Maps are a cornerstone of fantasy settings, and they can be useful tools for building worlds. In this episode, we talk with Pat (@mountain_foot on Twitter, @pate on Discord), a Stacker and dungeon cartographer who creates and uses maps extensively in his own gaming work. Join us for a fascinating talk about how to use maps to build game worlds!

In our talk, Pat mentions several resources of interest. If you're interested in doing more with maps, be sure to check out:

• The Ammassalik maps - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammassalik_wooden_maps
• Cyclic Dungeon Generation - https://sersavictory.itch.io/cyclic-dungeon-generation
• One of Pat's node maps and notes for an adventure in his AD&D campaign - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12l674bqBUsZir9nMNkGh6PZl_42TlO7541twfT4mv7I/edit?usp=sharing
• He also posts many of his maps at https://www.patreon.com/mountainfoot, where almost all of it is available for free.

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