The Red Epic, Strategy Battle game, personal work in progress

[RobA]

looks interesting, but i am certain that folks who know more about how rivers work are going to comment on a few places where rivers branch as they head downstream.

streams tend to join up as they head downhill, away from the mountains, rather than break off and split as a number of your rivers seem to.

the style looks great though

I'll bite.

The big river issues here are 1) as stated, many of the rivers split spontaneously, 2) several times the rivers connect the ocean on both ends, and 3) some of the lakes look to have more than 1 outlet.

The river splitting thing is geologically unlikely except for a few cases (deltas, swamps, very flat terrain with a mixed material (hard/soft) surface forming islands that rejoin most of the time).

2) comes from the idea of "water flows downhill" which means it can't flow from one ocean to the other, unless the river is just a channel.

3) is the same idea, water is lazy and flows down hill following the least likely path. A lake can have many inlets, but should have only one outlet at the lowest point of its "rim".

Of course any of these can be ignored/written off by liberal use of magic, engineering, or a complete abandonment of physical laws as we know them.

-Rob A>