Pre-Scourge Map
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:34 pm
I am new to Earthdawn, but I've been doing some reading as well as listening to podcasts and watching live-plays. The best and worst things for GMs running FASA games are always the huge amount of source material.
As you do with starting characters to show them the world slowly (and maybe hide the fact you aren't actually omnicient), I was going to start the characters in a kaer. I thought that having a map of the pre-scourge world would make sense: they could know what used to be where, but not how things changed over the ~500 years the kaer was closed. The major issue is I know things have changed a lot, but not what or how much.
It's easy enough to remove the names and locations of kaers, change the Bloodwood back to the Wyrmwood, and Parlainth is just an innocuous smudge. What about forests and rivers? Other towns and cities? The population should have been larger pre-scourge, so there should be more stuff on the map, but where would I put it? I've done some looking, and haven't found anything of the sort.
Does anyone with more experience have anything similar, an idea where to find something like what I want, a list of changes that would need to be made, or at least a pointer for where to start looking?
As you do with starting characters to show them the world slowly (and maybe hide the fact you aren't actually omnicient), I was going to start the characters in a kaer. I thought that having a map of the pre-scourge world would make sense: they could know what used to be where, but not how things changed over the ~500 years the kaer was closed. The major issue is I know things have changed a lot, but not what or how much.
It's easy enough to remove the names and locations of kaers, change the Bloodwood back to the Wyrmwood, and Parlainth is just an innocuous smudge. What about forests and rivers? Other towns and cities? The population should have been larger pre-scourge, so there should be more stuff on the map, but where would I put it? I've done some looking, and haven't found anything of the sort.
Does anyone with more experience have anything similar, an idea where to find something like what I want, a list of changes that would need to be made, or at least a pointer for where to start looking?
