[OC] Homebrewed Continent Map

Visually, it looks super nice. The textures on the mountains is particularly cool to me, and the northern part of the map looks amazing. I really want to know what's going on in the danger crater at the top, but it would probably kill me very quickly. The mushroom forest also seems like it could be a ton of fun.

Logically, though, it seems to have a few problems. I don't know how your rivers flow, but it looks like you have a river simply flowing through a tall, dense mountain range. Unless that mountain range is the source of the water, that probably won't happen. Water flows downhill. Unless the water follows an unbroken downhill path through the mountains, it won't continue through. Next, it looks like you've got a river running pretty much right next to a desert, which doesn't tend to happen. There's usually a mountain range blocking rainfall and/or a physical "tapering zone" which gets gradually drier away from the nearest water sources before reaching an actual desert climate. Such things can be considered trivialities for the most part, though. You're playing in a world where it's normal for lizards to fly and breathe fire, people listen to you because you pointed a stick at them and shouted gibberish at them, and a two-foot tall guy with noodles for arms can one shot a ripped body builder with a toothpick. If terrain doesn't adhere to everyday logic, then who am I to question it?

More importantly, I worry about the positioning of the mountains in the middle. To the south, it appears there is a fort by a lake, but the region otherwise has little to offer. The fort itself seems relatively poorly defended, surrounded mostly by flat grassy land rather than mountainous terrain or sea, so presumably it is a lower-level area than the Bowl of Pain at the top. That suggests fairly little to do before having to make an almost one-way trip to the middle section, where they will likely either struggle to maintain contact with NPCs on the southern side of the mountains (who are, in all likelihood, the primary reason for our adventurers) or get stranded on the northern end of the mountains. After all, neither mountain treks nor sea voyages are easy. Judging by the locations of houses on your map, it looks like there may be a ship that serves as a ferry between the top of Banana Island and the south western mid-section peninsula, or another ferry making basically the same trip on the eastern side of the continent. As a character, I would not want to travel to one end of the continent for a long and expensive boat ride or to keep traveling through the mountains. I don't want much to keep having to make such trips as a player, either. It seems like the mountains would be a physical barrier preventing them from doing certain things they want to do.

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