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[Map][Glorantha] how to put a Glorantha map in RW?

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eponette

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For all those who have the Argan Argar Atlas : how did you manage to put a map (or part of it) in RW? And what if the area interesting for your game is on more than one sheet?
 
Argh.... Closed my browser and lost the response.

Frog God Games recently came out with Sword of Air which is a sweeping adventure that crosses (more than) several thousand miles. They presented each part of the adventure as a region that is about 7000x5000 miles. And they showed a region map for each part. I liked that approach as it put everything at my finger tips for the adventure.

I took the regions and mapped them out on the world so I could visualize their relations better and found that they overlapped. At first I was irritated. My gut inclination was to divide the world into an orderly grid of mini maps. But I have to admit that their approach has really grown on me. It creates mini sandboxes that flow smoothly rather than distinct borders.

I've added a Regional Scope tag to almost everything and if something is in multiple regions, it gets multiple tags. I can easily identify everything around the Dragon Hills -- including stuff that overlaps with the Stoneheart Mountains and the Starcrag Foothills. Rivers and mountain ranges and traveling NPCs can all be associated in multiple regions.

These overlapping regions allow me to really focus on the adventure as the driver rather than the map. This was an ah-ha moment, a paradigm shift, for me.

Sorry for the thumbnail size. FGG's copyrighted material so I'm giving just enough detail to see the regions and how they overlap to provide context.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B38xJJAsUPYUckJpTC1kUHh6U2s/view?usp=sharing
 
AEIOU,

Did you get the PF or S&W version. I picked up the S&W version, as it's much easier to convert to D&D 5E from my personal experience.

I like what I've read so far, but I'm running my group through Lost City of Barakus right now, so lots of time is being spent on that mammoth tome.
 
eponette said:
For all those who have the Argan Argar Atlas : how did you manage to put a map (or part of it) in RW? And what if the area interesting for your game is on more than one sheet?
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Eponette, check your Realm Works invites. I think you might like my realm. :)

The AAA is kind of difficult. My original intention was to create a huge png of the world, but it's far too big to include, so I used various images from the Guide to Glorantha, as well as from Glorantha.com.
 
PF version. I keep considering S&W but I'm already invested and 5e doesn't hold any appeal for me.
 
Another thing that will make large maps more workable would be hot spots. There has been talk about upgrading the smart images and links from maps to other maps is on the short list. But that's all down the road...
 
Thanks AEIOU for your tips.

And Gloranphile, I'll check your realm as soon as in front of my PC (Kind of busy lately, but I'll give you a feed back). And as it sounds good, eager to be able to share data (when RW will be able to do it).
 
BoomerET said:
I like what I've read so far, but I'm running my group through Lost City of Barakus right now, so lots of time is being spent on that mammoth tome.
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Good luck with that and have fun. My players sometimes hated me when I ran that. LOL
 
I have been putting Glorantha in.

My focus is on Dragon Pass, so anything outside is getting less detail. I put in more than one Argan Argar map by the simple expedient of extracting the maps of Dragon Pass and Prax from the PDF, combining them in Photoshop, and putting that into Real Works.

For Glorantha as a whole, the Argan Argar maps are two detailed. I've used the maps of Glorantha (and the illustration of the cosmos) from the Guide to Glorantha, marking the locaton of Dragon Pass with a pin.
 
Barwickian, would you also like an invite to my realm? I've got pretty much the entirety of the Guide in there. It's not all shared with the players, but it might give you some guidance.

I'd love an invite to yours as well!
 
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gloranphile said:
Barwickian, would you also like an invite to my realm? I've got pretty much the entirety of the Guide in there, along with rules for RQ6. It's not all shared with the players, but it might give you some guidance.

I'd love an invite to yours as well!
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I'd love to see what you've done, and would welcome a critique of mine, too. I'm on the same username in RW as here.
 
Barwickian said:
I'd love to see what you've done, and would welcome a critique of mine, too. I'm on the same username in RW as here.
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I love this idea. We can see how another GM arranges things. I would be interested in joining someone(s) realm and I'd welcome anyone to join mine. I'm currently running the Pathfinder Adventure Path Carrion Crown's Broken Moon and Way of the Wicked. My account is asimmons.
 
Would also like to get invites to see others works

Trying to lay out stuff for a world that will have PCs adventuring in and some fiction written as well.

Getting there.


The saddest thing about RW is all the work that is being duplicated across so many folks. When if they could share freely that they could use that time for new creations.

Lee
 
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