Wall of Maps
Apr. 13th, 2005 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aBack at my old apartment in South Berkeley I used to have two walls of maps. The first one was in the living room and it was a combination of many of the maps from TSR's Forgotten Realms game. The second one was in my office and it was made up of several Gloranthan maps, running from Corflu, up the River of Cradles, to Balazar via Dagori Inkarth.
After I moved into North Berkeley with Kimberly neither wall ever got put back up. For one, Eric's Forgotten Realms game was by this time done, for another I lost any focus on doing RPG writing for a couple of years, and for a third I didn't actually have much wall space in my teeny little office--just windows, closet doors, book shelves, and a slight bit of space behind my computer.
Well, these last months I've finally be doing real Glorantha writing again, and more often than not I've been flipping through maps. In conjunction with that, I'd opened up a very large wall in my office when I rearranged things earlier this year. So, finally, the Gloranthan wall of maps has gone back up.
There are a couple of new maps now, one nice map of the Lunar Empire produced by the Unspoken Word, and a glossy map of Dragon Pass that came in Dragon Pass. I also put up the world maps and Big Rubble this time around, because I had spaces to fill.
The biggest problem is that of the 8 maps I have up, they're in 6 different scales. Even the three maps alledgedly at the same scale (River of Cradles, Dagori Inkarth, Balazar) aren't quite the same (though I learned the original Dagori Inkarth map is closer than the newer one, though it's not quite as nice; I used it anyway). The two prettiest maps, the new glossy, color ones, are also the hardest to see due to light reflections. And, I can't put up the map of the Elder Wilds because it's on the back of the map of Balazar.
Ah well. Anyway, it'll be nice reference as I continue to work on the Elf Book.
After I moved into North Berkeley with Kimberly neither wall ever got put back up. For one, Eric's Forgotten Realms game was by this time done, for another I lost any focus on doing RPG writing for a couple of years, and for a third I didn't actually have much wall space in my teeny little office--just windows, closet doors, book shelves, and a slight bit of space behind my computer.
Well, these last months I've finally be doing real Glorantha writing again, and more often than not I've been flipping through maps. In conjunction with that, I'd opened up a very large wall in my office when I rearranged things earlier this year. So, finally, the Gloranthan wall of maps has gone back up.
There are a couple of new maps now, one nice map of the Lunar Empire produced by the Unspoken Word, and a glossy map of Dragon Pass that came in Dragon Pass. I also put up the world maps and Big Rubble this time around, because I had spaces to fill.
The biggest problem is that of the 8 maps I have up, they're in 6 different scales. Even the three maps alledgedly at the same scale (River of Cradles, Dagori Inkarth, Balazar) aren't quite the same (though I learned the original Dagori Inkarth map is closer than the newer one, though it's not quite as nice; I used it anyway). The two prettiest maps, the new glossy, color ones, are also the hardest to see due to light reflections. And, I can't put up the map of the Elder Wilds because it's on the back of the map of Balazar.
Ah well. Anyway, it'll be nice reference as I continue to work on the Elf Book.