tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199458153789354182.post6069873144772744019..comments2023-03-25T01:51:29.521-04:00Comments on World of Garnia: maps and stuffThe Great Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199458153789354182.post-87733154622784598292011-12-24T22:22:30.967-05:002011-12-24T22:22:30.967-05:00David, I had not seen that yet, thank you!David, I had not seen that yet, thank you!dacj501https://www.blogger.com/profile/04476281477717529218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199458153789354182.post-44802976429853313762011-12-23T16:34:24.611-05:002011-12-23T16:34:24.611-05:00You may have seen it already but this site has a g...You may have seen it already but <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/make-your-own/globe" rel="nofollow">this site</a> has a great pdf template that you could perhaps play around with in a graphics programme. Even if you just used it to create a rough outline over which you'd paint the map.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199458153789354182.post-31273666779547788372011-12-23T16:22:47.572-05:002011-12-23T16:22:47.572-05:00David, ty, that's where I was leaning on going...David, ty, that's where I was leaning on going with the project based on some other research. I'm thinking one of those rubber play balls from like Target would work great...dacj501https://www.blogger.com/profile/04476281477717529218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199458153789354182.post-6128673770310166542011-12-23T15:53:53.817-05:002011-12-23T15:53:53.817-05:00Any tips or suggestions on the actual construction...<i>Any tips or suggestions on the actual construction, etc are welcome</i><br /><br />Take a plastic or rubber ball, rough it up with sandpaper and cover it with papier-mâché. Paint and then give it a coat or two of spray varnish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199458153789354182.post-75047411716269936562011-12-23T14:20:21.309-05:002011-12-23T14:20:21.309-05:00I think we still need to work on scale and redraw ...I think we still need to work on scale and redraw maps. I never really envisioned Garnia for instance being much larger than, say, France or maybe Germany, but merging the old maps together makes the various nations huge. The steppes should be immense, I have no problems with that. Khazarak should be like the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountains or more. Tirnakaur should be the size of the Iberian peninsula roughly. Frodia is slightly smaller than Garnia and Wodanslund is 1/2 the size of Frodia. <br /><br />Axial tilt giving seasons is a good question, I like the idea of having them, so I think we should. I'd also like to make the assumption of a yellow sun about the size of ours, to keep things simple, and since life evolved here in the first place, assume that it's roughly as far from the sun as earth. Moons? 1 is fine by me unless I can think of a compelling reason to have more or less.<br /><br />This all makes the basic assumption that we're working within scientific laws of our physical universe though, and this is an explicitly different universe with real and powerful magic, so it's possible that the entire world is just floating down a giant never ending stream and that the sun only goes away at night because the god driving the solar chariot has finished his daily rounds.The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.com