RPG World WIP

[jfrazierjr]

Do you have your ice on a layer with a layer mask? If not, do that now. Create your layer mask and then click on the mask and get a nice grunge brush from some where and whack down a few splatters here and there to simulate different and broken snowy areas. For where there is ocean, this will create some nice ice flows....

[msa]

I would probably draw the rivers over the top of the landmasses, but you could cut them out as well. Many of them should start in the mountains and work their way down. The borders between your terrains are very harsh, which is fine, but it means you probably should keep the rivers that way too.

[Thought]

Your mountains seem a bit... odd. Usually one side of a continent is more mountainous than the other, reflecting the direction of the plate tectonics. Given the shape of your continents, I'd say that the left and middle continents are moving away from eachother, which means that mountains on the middle continent are more likely to be on the right side of the continent than the left.

Currently, it looks like the middle continent has a west to east weather pattern (the desert being created in the rain shadow of the mountains). So the western slope of those mountains (unless you move them) is a great place for a dense jungle. But that also would imply that the mountains should be tall enough to have snow.

Regarding the polar regions, those are fairly large (but flat maps do distort geographical features). You might want to cut away about a third or a half of them and replace it with subartic regions to help create a more natural flow from one environment to another (one generally doesn't cross into snowy regions from fertile grasslands).

And finally, for rivers, I'd recommend not cutting away but overlaying the rivers on what you already have. Remember, water is lazy and will take the single shortest route to the ocean (the slower it is going the more likely it is to meander too).

Hope that helps.