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This project has taken a few unexpected turns. I spent a lot of time wracking my brain over the issue of scale bars. Almost all of the maps given in the Paizo material has a scale bar. Presumably, Paizo has the Inner Sea map saved in a way that allows them to capture regions and zoom in. One would further assume that of they were matched up in the right projection, in the right geographic area, that they would all agree. I have found this to be impossible to reconcile. ...
Inspired by the legend of Atlantis, tales of Utopia, and various tales of exploration and discovery, this book project attempts to recreate something now lost to us – that the world has nearly always been a place unfamiliar and unknown – a source of fear, wonder and the birthplace of personal voyages of discovery. The mapping aspect of this project is first and foremost to map all of Orphalian, a fantasy continent: This ...
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