[WIP]: A new RPG World

[Treijim]

Thanks for the expanded map. I have a few more things for you to think about.

Why is the rest of the map unexplored? What's stopped people? If they're anything like the High or Late Medieval period, they'll have seafaring ships. A large enough desert may prevent expansion on foot, as will hostile civilisations, and perhaps storms on the east shore stop people from sailing down too far, but what stops people from sailing west and around the desert?

Monsoon climates really only happen on large enough landmasses where the pressure system is more or less fully affected by the sheer size of the land. Asia is big enough and at the right altitude to completely change its pressure system from a strong high to a strong low between summer and winter, and though North America is in the right position, it's too small for monsoons.

By moving the equator, I suggest taking the layer it's attached to (assuming it has its own layer) and stretching it downward until the equator is about 30 degrees south of where it currently is. First, though, correct your labels. The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) IS the equator, and the Sub-Tropical High Pressure Zones (STHZ) ARE the tropics of cancer and capricorn. You have them labelled as the space between. This will only confuse you. The ITCZ is always tropical and the STHZ is always desert on mid-western shores. South America isn't a desert, you'll note, even though it's in an STHZ zone, because it's too thin and the Andes changes the climate because it's such a huge range of mountains.

I suggest trying out these changes and then give the Climate Cookbook another shot - jc.tech-galaxy.com/bricka/climate_cookbook.html - and please let me know if you disagree or if I didn't make sense. Good luck

[acrosome]

Ok, I'm going to be critical on two points, here.

First, copying the coastlines of Britain with such fidelity is in my opinion a mistake. It is simply too recognizable- it really jumps out at you. When I first looked at your map the first thought I had was "Oh, it's some sort of alternate Britain." I'll bet you this was so for the majority of people who saw it.

Second, you have land that runs up to the north pole, but the pole itsn't covered. You can't have land on just "part" of a pole in such a projection- it either is or it isn't. (Unless, of course, by some totally WILD coincidence you have land that comes to a perfect point exactly at 90 degrees. Which is what your map would look like at the moment- Nerdean comes to a very unnatural point at the north pole.) Look at the poles of the Earth in almost any projection- equirectangular, whatever, and pay attention to Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean and you'll see what I mean. You need to make the north pole either more Arctic-Ocean-like or more Antarctica-like.