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That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


Peter Fenlon's maps for MERP were amazing, but the level of detail they provide was I think a hindrance to most gamers. It was too much to really use, and at the same time so much of it outside the places established by Tolkien was just "some red house, who the gently caress even knows what it's called."

His natural features though, goddamn.

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That Old Tree
Jun 24, 2012

nah


CC's been pretty reasonably priced for years. Just checking now, it's $45 for the base software. It comes with a lot of stuff and has become quite a bit user friendlier over the years, and there are a lot of tutorials available now. It comes with a lot of templates at base, but if you want to buy the big pre-made content packages the price jacks up pretty quickly.

I would advise pG against buying it right off the bat, though. Definitely experiment with cheaper options, and be absolutely sure you want to shell out ~$50 to $200 on CC before you dive in there. Check out the demo and some tutorials, maybe. (ProFantasy makes Campaign Cartographer.)

Amusingly, the image on their front page is very clearly a Fenlon MERP-style map.

That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jun 1, 2015

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