How Matt Mercer Creates Fantasy Maps | Critical Role Panel

and it's most of it's just kind of improvising on paper and then posting it online and looking at reddit telling me that all my rivers were wrong and don't make sense so that's fine [Music] what's your name hi um oh well uh i'm not sure if i'm if it's actually cold hard here or if i'm just having the first fangirl moment in my whole life are your nipples hard uh maybe yeah maybe probably a little or both um my name is max i'm also from holland first thank you for everything like dnd is a really big part of my life um question for you um when you start building maps like when you build maps like world maps or city maps where do you actually start and how do you get your inspiration there well don't worry guys we'll get to a question for you at some point here i can i can take this one but until i can take this one you do have a throne yeah there you go there you go he starts with the sewage system and works up from there that's kind of true no it's not [Laughter] uh i honestly i wish i could say i had this super intricate process that's a well-learned i just like drawing what a shape of a continent should look like like oh this is a fun oh there's a little island here that's cool a little bait inlet and then i'll be like all right well i should probably put some mountains here and then i'll draw some mountains and it's most of it's just kind of improvising on paper and then posting it online and looking at reddit telling me that all my rivers were wrong and don't make sense so that's fine yeah i've had to learn a lot of things about about geography and and biomes and how things work to try and make it somewhat but not fully you know realistic because the world's magic that's the thing now the rivers don't fork naturally like this they do in a world that's full of magic magic rivers um yeah it's looking at maps that exist out there i've actually had a really fun time looking at real world maps for comparison of how land bridges form and how islands form and looking at where mountains and fault lines happen to you know connect and one fleet to the other so honestly looking at real world maps are a great inspiration all right thank you and i love every single one of you oh thank you love you too thanks for coming all the way from holland you

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Length: 2min 50sec (170 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021