Yalarad Maps - Full Graphic Treatment (In Progress)
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Yalarad is my AD&D 1st ed. campaign world and a life work. The latest incarnation has hand drawn backgrounds now being coloured and adding cities, trade routes, and political boundaries.
Yalarad Maps - Full Graphic Treatment (In Progress)
- 2. Welcome to Yalarad Yalarad is a fantasy game world created for Dungeons and Dragons campaigns but applicable to any fantasy role-playing system The first version of the place was created somewhere around 1980 The second version was created between 1982- 88 but was lost This third version was first drawn somewhere around 1990 The third iteration of Yalarad started with an overview map
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- 4. Scale It is a large place, I wanted a setting that would take a lifetime to explore and which was large enough to legitimately have all different climate and vegetation types This has resulted in a continent that is approximately the size of North America Canada, including the Arctic territories fits easily inside Yalarad
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- 6. Political & City Maps Once you have a land mass you need to populate it or your campaign will be rather boring My goal was to create a place that was teeming with cultures and peoples all the classic fantasy RPG races made popular in Tolkiens works To this end I developed country and city distributions
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- 9. Scale Change Maps I was reasonably happy with the world so far, but I had a craving for a deeper level of detail, a way to flesh out my creation and make it come to life At some point I came up with the idea of drawing a larger hex grid on the standard paper, this would allow me to blow up the maps at a consistent ratio I chose 7:1
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- 11. Index 7:1 Scale Change Maps
- 12. Results The drawing of the scale change maps was a giant undertaking Every coastline, mountain, hill, river, and lake was drawn by hand 48 maps were needed to cover off the detailed areas of the continent map and each map took a solid 8 hours of drawing with calligraphy pens This is only somewhere around 360-400 hours of work but was conducted sporadically and took 10 years
- 13. The Problem These maps were detailed, but they were just the raw geography, they lacked the detail needed to conduct a campaign Cities, roads, political boundaries; all of these things were missing So, for another 10 years I ignored them and conducted only sporadic experiments to see if I could get the details I wanted on the stark black ink drawings
- 15. Inspiration During the intervening years I met my wife, had two children, and continued building a career but never stopped playing D&D And never stopped wanting to find a way to bring my scale change maps to life Then during the winter holidays of 2014 everything came together: I had time, I had discovered a free graphics editing program with layers (Paint.net), and I decided to try just one
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- 17. Im in Trouble I liked the result It took 6 hours to retrace the land mass, add the cities and roads, and label everything I knew other maps would be faster or slower but would probably average 6 hours each That was going to be another 280-300 hours But I had some time so I dove in Thanks to the head start I got over the holidays, a few weeks later I was done
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- 21. That is the Scale Change The rest of this deck is low resolution versions of the maps to provide the details for players or anyone who is interested This work remains my own and is under copyright By posting it here I am allowing for personal use only, no commercial use is permitted
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- 30. Index 2-5
- 31. Index 3-1
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- 70. Index More Information on Yalarad Website: http://yalarad.com/ Email: brad.einarsen@gmail.com