Advice to enhance my world

[Torq]

I like the map Alucard. All the references to Drac and Ravenloft got me thinking about my old Ravenloft campaign. As far as my players go they still recall it often around the game table. We barely have an evening of gaming without someone coming up with a "hey, remember that time in Ravenloft when... It normally ends with everyone agreeing that mists are to be avoided at all costs no matter what the gaming system or the genre. I was thinking about it recently and it led me to three conclusions:

1. My current campaign is probably a bit boring.
2. The Ravenloft campaign setting was fantastic, and I'm not sure everyone appreciated at the time how good it was.
3. Man, I really scared those guys.

As for scaring, my personal favourite was something suggested in the one of the Ravenloft books. I got a female friend to could act to do a whole lot of really scaring whispering (things like "help me", "he's coming for us all" etc), which I recorded on the end of an otherwise blank cassette 45 min per side. Just before the players arrived I started the tape playing, with the volume on full on a small casette player and hid it under some cushions right next to the game table. You can imagine when things were gettig really tense in some haunted locale and things had gone quiet around the table, what the effect of that disembodied voice coming out of nowhere was like. Of course it scared me out of my whits too because I had become engrossed in the game and had forgotten all about it.

If you havn't tried it and your players need some scaring I really recommend it.

Torq

[alucard339]

Thanks for the advice Torq.

I will surly use it soon: right now we are playing in Tir Na Nog (a Conan like country), the paizo pathfinder campaign and in 2 weeks, I should begin the book #2 (skinsaw murderer)…

It will be fun to use ur trick.

As for the map, I'll get rid of shadow around the forest and try to find a better looking texture but only by mid January, because right now I'm working on my board game.

C U a-round,
Alu.

[alucard339]

Here is an updated from my world map project.

I just finish the Tromek Island with it's rivers and forests.
Take a look and give me your feedback. Because I will start the rest of my world with the same style unless ou say that it need improvement.

Thanks,
Alu.

[pyrandon]

I think this is great, alucard. The neon nature still distracts me--I keep wanting to tone it down a tad--but that is a stylistic choice we've already discussed. I think the features and the layout are nice, and I absolutely love the oceans' darkness--how the coastal waters and land emerge from it. I can't think of anything else without getting really really nitpicks and into my personal preference realms.

Great job!!