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Post maps. Here is mine. Feedback ?

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Looks good, OP. I'm not great at geography though, so don't rely on me to spot errors.

What software did you use to make it?

Couple of small issues:

I wouldn't bother with the 'folded paper' effect. It doesn't look good and it makes you think of it as being an in-universe object, which the runs into issues of it having way more realistic looking coastlines than real medieval maps (and if it's meant to be more advanced than that, the mountains would look wrong), obviously being printed with a variable size typeface, etc.

I don't love the typeface. It's hard to read, but doesn't add much in the way of flavour. A boring serif like Times new Roman, Garamond or something would be fine. If you want it to look old-school, use a blackletter or script typeface.

Seems to me like there should be some sea-ice in the north, but again, I know fuck-all about geography.

So...North America?

He used inkarnate, which has a fixed scale and space you can use, so user copy and pasted several maps together, there's where the folded paper effect comes from. It's not deliberate, just necessary.

Type face, terrain palette and everything is not upon for choice.

But user did a good job with the coastline.

Those are pieced together from Inkarnate, which is why you get the folded look. It also doesn't have any really excellent fonts, OP's probably used the best one of them

Game takes place in a low magic, early 1800s technology world, specifically on the 'new world', disputed by old world powers.

>the rivers actually converge, complete with actual tributaries

what's you use to make that? Looks beautiful

Damn user, this shit is tight

Photoshop. Used google images to get a parchment texture for background. The sea and land I used different textures with layers, added a stroke effect to make that black line around the coastline, and a few grunge brushes I downloaded for free to give it the aged look.