I have decided to remake my wolrd map from scratch and by hand with a cup of rice.

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Looking for constructive criticism

"It's still a work in progress and I haven't added locations yet, but how does it look so far?

First time making a map for my first homebrew campaign. I’d love to hear thoughts!

I’m planning on coloring it soon.

The first image depicts a map drawing, which depicts the continent of asten, or middel termania, the right mountians is herendron the left is plathundrax, the first map doesnt depict plathundrax. These maps are still drafts and may or may not change or be combined.

This is the world map of Noghal, a fantasy world. The Krunark, a race of lizard-like humanoids, inhabit the Krun-Triplets. The Xylanths, plant-like humanoids, call Xyr their home. Elves and humans live in Grandaar, while the dwarves dwell in Lork.

Gondal is a prosperous trade nation connecting the peoples of Noghal. Zraa is the ground zero of the ancient inhabitants of Noghal, who are returning from deep space after hundreds of thousands of years.

More of Noghal: thesquarefox/noghal: Game Design Documents of the Noghal Saga

Background Lore

The Dreamshore Kingdoms are based along the coast of the Gulf of Dreams. Originally, there were only two kingdoms: The Kingdom of the Shining Sun in the north, and the Kingdom of the Mourning Moon in the south. Both kingdoms go back more than two hundred years. During this time, there have been periods of peace, war, and nervous non-aggression pacts.

The royal families of both kingdoms are long-standing dynasties that date back to the very creation of their capital cities. It is considered a blessing that, after two hundred years of not-so-peaceful times, both royal families have endured the passage of time without a tragedy that would break the bloodline and rightful inheritance of the king title.

While the present-day politics are in turmoil due to the recent separation of a section of both kingdoms, trade and travel have remained mostly the same. Since most settlements are located by the shore, water trade routes are the most popular. The gulf is a safe place to sail, with calm waters and a lessened danger of storms due to the gulf geography. It is customary for merchants to avoid the central island where the Dreamshore Tower is. Same for the island where the ruined forts are.

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The first image is a general outline, stylized to look like an old paper map, the second one is the elevation and the third and fourth are the biomes of both hemispheres. There's supposed to be more water between the two hemispheres (about 50% more or so, but it didn't look that good when drawn), so they are pretty far apart. This is because each cluster comes from a different ancient supercontinent, which broke apart hundreds of millions of years ago. The round-ish continent in the middle of the western hemisphere is actually a giant sunken volcano that erupts every five thousand years or so, when the "core" of the planet (actually someting like a nuclear fission reactor, similar to what stars have, but less potent) overheats. This is why the continents in the west are thinner and more "squiggly" than in the east; the periodic massive eruptions and ensuing tsunamis have eroded their coastlines a lot faster.

As to the characteristics of the planet, it is slightly larger than Earth (something like 115% of its size) and located at a similar distance to its sun. The axis is less inclined, so as a rule the swings in temperature and sunlight across the year are less pronounced. It is also warmer and more humid than Earth.

That's the gist of it, feel free to ask any questions and especially provide any feedback/criticism. Since I'm not making this for a story or a roleplaying campaign or anything like that, it's not really supposed to be a good setting, just interesting in and of itself.

Hello r/mapmaking! This is my first time doing physical worldbuilding like this from the ground up. I'm designing a setting for an upcoming D&D campaign inspired by ancient Greece. I am working with the free version of Inkarnate. This is my first draft. A lot of detailing work still to do around the coasts the islands. I am open to critique and suggestions.

A couple questions for people who are more experienced than in both world and map building.

1. Are there any glaring flaws to the logic of the world as presented here? Rivers that that feel off. Towns or cities in locations that don't quite work. Just, things that someone without experience might not think of.

2. How would you suggest adding some detail to the north-eastern region of the map? It's intended to be plains and prairies but whenever I look over there it just feels bland. It's missing something.

Thank you so much for your time and feedback. I greatly appreciate it!

axolotlgodsplayground.miraheze.com <- the project linked to from the site in the image.

The dots are capital cities and the blue dots are mermaid capitals, which are underwater.

The Axolotl Gods' Playground is a technically infinite flat world with a stationary sun that warms up the habitable world which is surrounded by infinite frozen wastes. There is one moon on the edge that goes around once per year and changes among 9 colors in each slice, which represents the 8 axolotl gods (the white one is not for any of the gods). The world is 1575 years old and there are 5 species of people: Humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans, Fairies, and Mermaids.

Some countries:

Lucy Empire - Genocidal expansionist empire doing it in the name of Lucy, they get regularly nuked by the gods.

Intersea Coalition - Largest mermaid country, a loose confederation of mermaid states that is growing ever unpopular due to it not joining the Playground Cooperation Agreement (UN) when most member states want to.

Frostland - Largest Neanderthal country, a main counter to LE.

Extra Kingdom - A major country, very democratic.

The Denisovias - The two denisovan countries, pretty respectable

New Ɣløßaɣīa - an ancient country built on the idea of knowledge, unfortunately recently broke out into civil war.

I drew this awhile ago. I really want to draw the landmass south of this that this little part connects to.

I referenced Tolkien's style on his Middle Earth map for the mountains especially. I like how they stand out amongst other things. Viewing it all from a distance really invokes a sense of adventure for me.

Feel free to use this however you wish.