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Phil Masters · 04-03-2017, 02:33 AM

Honestly, we mostly had finite space, and a gazetteer of random town names isn't the kind of thing I reckon is worth time and page space when people can do it for themselves anyway.

I forget how much of that map was us, how much was old edition material, and how much was the cartographer. But when one wants to emphasise that a given region is well-settled, the map needs to show some towns and stuff, without necessarily naming them. And too many names make a map look cluttered and hard to use.

04-03-2017, 02:33 AM	#2
Phil Masters Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: U.K.	Re: Banestorm Ytarria Map - Town Names? Honestly, we mostly had finite space, and a gazetteer of random town names isn't the kind of thing I reckon is worth time and page space when people can do it for themselves anyway. I forget how much of that map was us, how much was old edition material, and how much was the cartographer. But when one wants to emphasise that a given region is well-settled, the map needs to show some towns and stuff, without necessarily naming them. And too many names make a map look cluttered and hard to use. __________________ -- Phil Masters My Home Page. My Self-Publications: On Warehouse 23 and On DriveThruRPG.