This is a pattern in my life.
I have so many potential campaigns in short notes and in my head that I could be doing nothing but writing and running RPGs for the rest of my life and never run out. Getting them all down on paper would be difficult. The tones don't match for many of them and I have problems switching tone quickly. This would leave me dropping scenes that are too heavy in the middle of light hearted adventures.
What else is stopping me? Well, I'm afraid to succeed. I know, it sounds weird, but I've always had this fear that I would become good enough at something that others would come to depend on me for and I would inevitably disappoint them because...
Yeah, it's imposter syndrome. Hard to avoid.
What on earth does any of this have to do with maps? Well, I'm trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and part of that is forcing myself to finish some things I started long ago. A map for one of my campaign worlds is part of that. The world itself is pretty generic, with a fallen empire in a pseudo-european land with ruins, cities, and wide expanses full of battlefields. The party's jobs is simply to survive and, if possible, make things a little easier. But I found myself with a map for this world that I build from the history. It's not great and needs a little professional input to complete, and so, in order to push myself out of my comfort zone, I'm going to try to find a professional to take it from what I've got to what others will enjoy.
Am I going to write a campaign sourcebook to go along with it? No! There are much better ways to get the most out of campaign world and the templates provided by Daggerheart are a good way to get the most out of it.
I've also backed the Twilight Sword campaign on Backerkit. This has an interesting mechanic for breaking up a region into areas of interest, each with it's own focal points and encounter possibilities. I think combining the two ways of looking at the world will provide a simple way to build a world out from a starting point to a fully fledged campaign setting. Watch this space, I guess.
