Well, as the title says, I'm trying something new. I've been playing around in a terrain generator I found called L3DT which doesn't give such good results on its own but when combined with Photoshop (Oil Paint filter and saturation) it gives you something like this:

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Obviously this isn't a map as such but I've thought about using it as the basis for one. What does everyone think?