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Spectacles for Your Maps

Scott — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:00:19 +0000

In the spirit of this month’s blog carnival on maps, I thought I’d talk a little bit about map design. Not the act of creating the actual map, although there’s plenty to be said about that; rather, the art of populating it. Not with settlements, either. With spectacles. Spectacles are an element overlooked by many [...]

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Spectacles for Your Maps

Maps and Legends

Scott — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:30:42 +0000

This month, A Character for Every Game is hosting the RPG Blog Carnival. The topic is cartography. Maps are obviously pretty vital to most campaigns. You’ve got maps of fantasy worlds, of dungeons, of the city your superheroes are based in, of the star systems (or galaxies!) your space-opera heroes are flying between, of the [...]

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Maps and Legends

Humor and Gaming Blog Carnival Roundup

Scott — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:37:26 +0000

The carnival has moved on to Roleplaying Pro, where this month’s topic is “The Future of Roleplaying.” April’s carnival on Humor and Gaming produced quite a few posts, though, so let’s get to them: Here at A Butterfly Dreaming, I presented the pun-laden Grape Jelly monster, and also discussed how such humorous stuff might be [...]

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Humor and Gaming Blog Carnival Roundup