My D&D group didn't know what they were getting when they appointed me the official cartographer of the group.

Most of the created world we play was created before I was joined, so mostly I've just polished the pre-existing maps up, but for a while now I've had the urge to really update and polish the maps. Make them more natural, or as much as possible in keeping with the pre-existing maps, -- add plate tectonics, climate, native plant and wildlife, etc to the maps and basically all the little details my DMs don't worry about when creating the campaigns.

Which is what lead me here.

Actually, it was in searching for ideas on making a globe for the world that linked me to a topic in here.

And I have to say, I'm impressed with this forum. I'm mostly a "figure it out for myself" but there are a lot of useful tutorials and ideas and resources here that are just to amazing not to take advantage of.

Not to mention how awesome it is just to have a place to talk about maps and mapmaking with people that are just as enthusiastic about it.

So, Hi.