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bloodyrosemccoyI finally caved in and got myself Campaign Cartographer to help me figure out how the hell I can get my created worlds committed to some kind of accurate system. While I retain a fondness for my hand-drawn maps, I have been having an absolute blast with the program. I may still be faily at maps in general, but at least now my failure has snappy graphics!
However, while it is a great program and fulfilled some of my fantasy type needs, I still felt I needed more data.* So I turned to my own local map nerd: Dad. Mapping is one of Dad’s hobbies; many is the family hike or bike trip that has been plotted out extensively with Dad’s GPS systems, computer programs, and of course hard copies. And like me, when Dad gets a new hobby, it means we are going to need another bookshelf.
So when I showed Dad my work-in-progress map of OGYAFEland, it went like this:
ME: So I’ve got this mountain range, and you can tell I’ve been working on the coast. I’m going to have a desert over here …
DAD: OH MY GOD YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT MAPS
ME: Yes! On this program!
DAD: I KNOW THINGS ABOUT MAPS
ME: That’s why I came to you!
DAD: HERE ARE LOTS OF BOOKS ABOUT MAPS
ME: Great!
DAD: AND HERE ARE THE REST OF THE BOOKS ABOUT MAPS
ME: This is a lot of books!
DAD: MAPS
ME: MAPS
So then we taked about how to keep the clouds off my desert, and what the hell “basin and range” means, and how CC3’s horse clip art is the worst drawing of a horse ever, and Dad pointed out that OGYAFEland looks suspiciously like the southwestern US and I was like I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT and then I went to read the 10,000 books he had given me.
In summary:
Finding something to help me worldbuild: Accomplished!
Quality Family Time With Dad: Accomplished!
Double Accomplishment! I am winner today.
*I will never have enough data. My gravestone should probably read “Hang on, let me look it up.”
However, while it is a great program and fulfilled some of my fantasy type needs, I still felt I needed more data.* So I turned to my own local map nerd: Dad. Mapping is one of Dad’s hobbies; many is the family hike or bike trip that has been plotted out extensively with Dad’s GPS systems, computer programs, and of course hard copies. And like me, when Dad gets a new hobby, it means we are going to need another bookshelf.
So when I showed Dad my work-in-progress map of OGYAFEland, it went like this:
ME: So I’ve got this mountain range, and you can tell I’ve been working on the coast. I’m going to have a desert over here …
DAD: OH MY GOD YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT MAPS
ME: Yes! On this program!
DAD: I KNOW THINGS ABOUT MAPS
ME: That’s why I came to you!
DAD: HERE ARE LOTS OF BOOKS ABOUT MAPS
ME: Great!
DAD: AND HERE ARE THE REST OF THE BOOKS ABOUT MAPS
ME: This is a lot of books!
DAD: MAPS
ME: MAPS
So then we taked about how to keep the clouds off my desert, and what the hell “basin and range” means, and how CC3’s horse clip art is the worst drawing of a horse ever, and Dad pointed out that OGYAFEland looks suspiciously like the southwestern US and I was like I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT and then I went to read the 10,000 books he had given me.
In summary:
Finding something to help me worldbuild: Accomplished!
Quality Family Time With Dad: Accomplished!
Double Accomplishment! I am winner today.
*I will never have enough data. My gravestone should probably read “Hang on, let me look it up.”
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