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Two editions of the book were published by Midkemia Press, in 1979 [1] and 1983; [2] Chaosium published a third edition in 1986 titled Cities: Create and Explore Your Own Fantasy Communities. [3] The book provides information about urban centres — villages, towns and cities — that can be used by a gamemaster to design an adventure or ...
Medieval fantasy: d20 System: 2003 A giant-dominated setting; created by Monte Cook and first published in 2003. Arcanis: the World of Shattered Empires: Medieval fantasy: The continent of Onara on the Planet of Arcanis d20 System, Arcanis rules system, 5ed D&D Paradigm Concepts: 2001–Present Focuses on moral ambiguity and politics Ars Magica
Quadripartite maps (including the Beatus maps) Complex maps; Medieval world maps which share some characteristics of traditional mappae mundi but contain elements from other sources, including Portolan charts and maps associated with Ptolemy's Geography are sometimes considered a fifth type, called "transitional mappae mundi".
Year Game Developer Setting Platform Notes 1964: The Sumerian Game: Mabel Addis: Historical: MAIN: Text-based game based on the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash. [1]1969: The Sumer Game
Traditionally, western European medieval mappaemundi, or world maps, have been divided into two categories: T–O maps and zonal maps. T–O maps are named as such because of their tripartite structure – a T rests inside an O, dividing the world into the three known continents.
The Hereford mappa mundi, a map of the world with Jerusalem at its centre. The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation.
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.
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.