Results 1 to 7 of 7

Thread: Blood Falls and an iceless desert in Antarctica

  1. #1

    Link Blood Falls and an iceless desert in Antarctica

    Not specifically map-related, but very cool:

    There is a glacier in Antarctica that seems to be weeping a river of blood. It’s one of the continent’s strangest features, and it’s located in one of the continent’s strangest places — the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a huge, ice-free zone and one of the world’s harshest deserts...
    read it at http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/45981
    FantasyMapMaker.com - free fantasy maps for commercial or personal use ~ Campaign Cartographer 3 Review

  2. #2
    Community Leader Facebook Connected Steel General's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Ft. Wayne, IN
    Posts
    9,530

    Default

    interesting..thx for posting.
    My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...

    Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.



  3. #3
    Guild Member Fuse's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Seattle, WA
    Posts
    82

    Default

    Wow, that's pretty cool.
    Kind of makes my imagination go wild - thinking about other worlds for games.

  4. #4
    Professional Artist Facebook Connected Coyotemax's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2009
    Location
    Canada
    Posts
    1,945

    Default

    Reminds me of "At the Mountains of Madness"

    My finished maps
    "...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."

  5. #5
    Guild Journeyer Nexis's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Ottawa Canada
    Posts
    113

    Default

    "Hay look! What is that in the ice?"....Dig Dig..."It's a piece of paper!"
    "What does it say?"
    "Record of the Miskatonic University Antarctic expiditon of 1936....Ohh S*&%!!"
    "OUMM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!"

  6. #6

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Fuse View Post
    Wow, that's pretty cool.
    Kind of makes my imagination go wild - thinking about other worlds for games.
    Yeah, I think the desert in the middle of an ice block is at least as interesting as the bleeding ice. A great place to send the PCs...
    FantasyMapMaker.com - free fantasy maps for commercial or personal use ~ Campaign Cartographer 3 Review

  7. #7
    Community Leader mearrin69's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Location
    Portland, OR
    Posts
    2,318

    Default

    It's pretty cool. Was just reading D&D's Frostburn, a genre book about ice wastes (natural, magical, or extraplanar), and this terrain makes me think about that. I forget what it's called but there's some sort of blood ice in there...along with negative energy ice and other nasty stuff. I remember reading about a few of them and thinking, "that's kinda lame". But, now that I've seen red ice, maybe I'll have to change my mind.
    M

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •