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Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
OpenGeofiction (abbreviated OGF) is an online collaborative mapping project focused on fantasy cartography and worldbuilding of a world analogous to Earth. It uses OpenStreetMap software and processes in a separate environment, providing an outlet for artistic expression that avoids interfering with OpenStreetMap's mapping of the real world and potentially mitigates the risk of vandalism there.
The Fantasy Cartographer's Field Book is a supplement that presents four different types of grids for maps, each with pages explaining how to record the scale, contents, and key. [ 1 ] Reception
In the September 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue 209), Lester W. Smith found Campaign Cartographer almost too good, and the 334-page manual almost too much, saying "For those who like to invest multiple hours into creating detailed maps for their campaigns, and who have the hardware to take advantage of the program, the Campaign Cartographer software allows them to create, store, modify, and ...
Both maps locations described in fiction and stand-alone works of imaginary cartography belong in this category. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. [1] Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. [2]
David "Diesel" S. LaForce is an American artist who worked on Dungeons & Dragons adventures published by TSR.His artwork and cartography appeared in many TSR products produced from 1979 to 1984 including the classics Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits, A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity, and B2 Keep on the Borderlands (the most published roleplaying adventure of all time).
The Fantasy Cartographer's Field Book; The First Fantasy Campaign; Frontier Forts of Kelnore; Judge's Shield; Masters of Mind; The Mines of Custalcon; Portals of Irontooth; Portals of Torsh; Portals of Twilight; Ready Ref Sheets; Spies of Lightelf; Temple Book I; Treasury of Archaic Names; The Unknown Gods; Verbosh; Village Book 1; Village Book ...