Map! - Ivanez #4

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I must admit, one of the things about RPGs that I love is something that I did not notice until recently. I love making maps. I like organizing data and telling stories with as finite a space as possible. It's an extension of miniature painting for me; in which my time spent painting a face, uniform, or even weathering the model renders me time to imagine the faux being a background. To that end this map is a distillation of that.

I've never been too satisfied with canned Traveller maps or the user ones floating around the internet. They end with a mere UWP score and a hex value. They say nothing of the world, the solar system, or make much attempt at using the rich canvas that a map provides. It is frequently left as an excersize of the mind. And while that is good, it's also so incredibly vague to be nearly useless. From a player standpoint, of which I was most concerned, a mere UWP never states any finer details that one might be able to plan upon.

And though my map doesn't help too much with some of the vagueness that a simple UWP score is, it atleast fleshs out an otherwise generic sector map.

This map was made in Gimp and was done almost entirely free handed (with a mouse).

On a side note, I originally posted this over on Citizens of the Imperium. After searching for a good Traveller map to look over and imitate I discovered that the map apparently has since found itself on a couple other forums and blogs that I never went too (with nearly universal praise).

I'm incredibly flattered by that.