Jan 11, 2011

Old Map of Awesome

So yesterday I was digging around my RPG stuff. I don't have a lot of books or anything, I mainly have an extensive collection of things I've created over the years. Most of what I've written looks like the scrawling of a madman and only makes any coherent sense to me, and the vast majority of my maps and dungeons have unfortunately been lost or destroyed. But then I found this...

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I had thought that this map was lost for sure. I made it when I was around seventeen or so, and It's the first real campaign world I ever created. The names are mainly rip-off's from the Forgotten Realms or pseudo-Tolkien in nature, but it was my first real attempt to create a game world of my own. The map itself is hand drawn in ink and coloured in watercolours.

My friend James and I played off and on in this world for nearly three years and many of the seeds for my later ideas were first planted here. It's always nice to find something that reminds you why you started gaming in the first place and what you love about it.

Now to search through my old notes and see if I can find any more awesome scores. I'll see if I can the original write-ups for the world and post them later.

Have you rediscovered any cool old gaming stuff of yours recently?

20 comments:

Icarus said...

My, what a lov.....*stolen*

Alex Schroeder said...

Looks awesome. Watercolored!

Risus Monkey said...

What a gorgeous map. How fortunate that you recovered it!

James said...

Very, very nice!

Johnathan Bingham said...

Awesome! I love it. I wish I could find more of my old gaming stuff. I used to have many Trapper Keepers devoted to characters, maps, and the like.

Monthly Dungeon Master said...

Terrific! I love going through my old gaming stuff and dream back to the time RPG-ing was a fulltime enterprise (school? What school)

Malakor said...

That's a beautiful map.

John L. Williams said...

Thanks everyone, I'm glad you like the map.

Christopher B said...

Dude! Sweet! I wish the maps I made at 14 looked half as nice as that. Excellent work.

The Mild Mannered Gamer said...

Most Impressive...

Rich said...

Wow, this is awesome!!!

Jen said...

I love that you watercoloured it! :)

John Williams said...

Thanks again everyone.

Malakor said...

That's a beautiful map.

Monthly Dungeon Master said...

Terrific! I love going through my old gaming stuff and dream back to the time RPG-ing was a fulltime enterprise (school? What school)

Johnathan Bingham said...

Awesome! I love it. I wish I could find more of my old gaming stuff. I used to have many Trapper Keepers devoted to characters, maps, and the like.

James said...

Very, very nice!

Risus Monkey said...

What a gorgeous map. How fortunate that you recovered it!

Alex Schroeder said...

Looks awesome. Watercolored!

Icarus said...

My, what a lov.....*stolen*

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