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If you love reading fantasy literature, you know that most good stories require a good map. If you’re having trouble finding a map for the story you’re reading, try the Fantasy Cartography website. They have a great collection of maps based on fantasy worlds you’re already familiar with.

In their own words:

It happens all the time. You’re reading one of your favorite novels, and you wish you had a good map to use as a reference. Here you will find a collection of maps from various fantasy and science fiction works for your viewing. I might also include other goodies from literature, the Bible (not fiction), or television programs, movies, and video games.

Check out their maps!

Firstly, I’d like to thank those of you who frequent this website for your interest and words of encouragement. I enjoy the map-making process immensely and I’m grateful to be able to share it with you.

For those of you who are new to the site, and to those of you who come back often just by remembering the website address, I’d like to suggest you subscribe to the blog. Subscribing means you don’t have to come back every day to see if there’s a new map yet because the maps are sent to you. There’s no spam because you can turn off your subscription any time you like. There are two easy ways to subscribe – RSS and Email.

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RPG Tonight has a useful list of mapping and gaming resources that I stumbled on.

Apparently, they provide a virtual tabletop environment for gamers who play at a distance. I hope to check it out soon – right now we use a combination of skype and tokbox, but it looks like RPG Tonight might do the trick.

Have you used the RPG Tonight virtual tabletop?

I finally scrounged up enough cash to get Campaign Cartographer‘s Dungeon Designer 3. Expect to see some PC-killin’ underground goodness coming soon.

For the 3 of you who actually found my web site interesting and/or useful, thanks for dropping by. And don’t worry – there will be more maps coming soon. I’m spending the month of February in Thailand getting some much needed R&R, which means not touching a computer more than a couple time per week. Expect to see some more maps in early March, which, as always, will be completely free.

The first few maps are live! They’re not the best maps you’ll ever come across, but what do you expect for free?

Hopefully the learning curve won’t be too steep and I can start producing much better stuff soon. I’ve been told that “practice makes perfect,” so you can look forward to a lot of mediocre stuff in the near future while I practice =P.

Any comments or suggestions would be most welcome.