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Published: 2015-05-10 16:52:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 89629; Favourites: 569; Downloads: 14
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A map based on fantasy tropes that pokes a little fun at unoriginal map makers.Related content
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I like how the Norse aspects are just slightly misspelled
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Agreed. Β I think people sometimes get too worked up about or obsessed with so-called "cliches", forgetting that there is no such thing as 100% original, and that many of these "cliches" can be found in some of the most popular Fantasy series of all time. I generally feel that its not the trope, but how you use it. That said, it definitely pays to try to put a fresh spin on old ideas if you can.Β
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Oh you missed out!
You forgot to shape this as a slightly edited version of an earth map! Also you need a dark portal of doom and the gates of hell XD. Also a Shangri-La in the elf place. Also a shire and amazon land island / barbabaria. Also a big Asian china with super cliche stereotypes with kungfu and samurai and dumb anime tropes like naruto running and child-man heroes with angsty-edgy-man frenemy. Also if you are an asian mmo themed world have pedophile inspired loly race that is clearly modeled from a 12 year old girl but the basement warriors say the lore as they are like 10,000 years old yet are still retarded like a 12 year old. Also have the humans also be as smart as the ancient races even though the immortals would have literal thousands of years more mastery over the humans and some how everyone speaks the same language in-spite of the lack of modern communication XD.
Also all the humans and 'good' guys are pure good and the bad guys are pure evil, no grey space. Also the Human capital has the chosen one and the big bad land has the arch evil villain with no realistic motive rather these things happen because reasons. Also travel is not discuses and people walk thousands of miles with thousands of pounds yet gain no muscle and get to their destinations as convenient as a modern plane or car with paved roads yet none of these things exist en route to the big bad land of doom. Mention of supply lines and real war logistics is illogically taboo and never even thought of XD. Also you need state borders that make no sense are in dumb shapes only creations from digital drawing means like exactly straight, 90 degree or weird shapes like stars and hearts XD. Also have biomes that make no planetary sense like a random dessert where it should be green, an ice place in the middle of the planet beside a fire lands, a lake biome in the mountains that would NEVER drain itself even though it is three miles above sea level XD. The the lake biome with dumb islands like a sword or star or cross and a bunch of weird shapes in side each other and it is a 'nature occurrence' XD. Also lots of squares and 90 degree angles and floaty rocks and islands with super wizards in a 'not dalaran / DnD copy and paste' city with super plot armour where the master / astrology people live with point hats and stars and moons on their pajamas and flying carpets XD.
Also if you are a deprived 38-year old man child have races of furry and humanized unicorns that is over sexualized and filled with westernized version of the loly race tropes on island(s) that are really dumb looking (exact heart shape for example). Then of course all the women have tits larger than their heads and also go to battle (all the time the same as men because reasons) with plate bikinis and retarded over sized 10 foot long blunt magic sci-fi swords and never face reality of realistic warfare with such 'questionable' get-up XD. If you feel adventurous add a water world inspire from zoras and aquaman the rip off all of the dc and marvel style astro-galactic forces and make near copies and call them the gods / super heroes. If you are really deprived add soon to be dated trends like thanos, shrek, sonic and anything else copied exactly from pop culture like this world XD www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Y6_dβ¦
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I like it so much I'd even pay you to make me something similar for my campaign.
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Kazzakrad is a pretty badass name. What does it mean? Mountain Death Viking Metal?
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The only thing that could make this more clichΓ© is if it had the big ocean to the west instead of south.
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You flip this horizontally and you pretty much have my campaign map.
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I would actually use this if the words weren't on there, as hilarious as it is.
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Hi,
is this possible to use this pic and change names for a rpg forum ? **
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Thanks for making this, so I know what to steer away from
Not gonna lie 'Vikingheim" and "Mount Death" had me laughing.
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Too. Fucking. Accurate. Seriously, this is one of the best things ever!
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im using this to help build my world.. full of cliches that i love, pretty much every MMO has these LOL
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Hey, I love pretty much all these HF tropes myself. Of course in my defense, I did make SOME effort to do my High Fantasy world/map a bit differently from this one, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if I still succumbed to at least a few of these. Is it bad that I don't actually mind if that's the case?
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Laughing out loud at some of these, hard to stay away from tropes sometimes but yes see these everywhere! Maybe one day we will get a north-bound civilisation that isn't viking based (and I love Vikings). Great work.Β
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Well done! Didn't realize this was a joke at first. I actually took The Badlands as a name out of my map recently.
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Love your maps, this really took my attention while searching for inspiration for my own... then I realized it was a parody LOL. I miss an "Skull Island": Hideout for some pirates/Giant monkey worshippers
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I really love your art style here. This is such a funny map. Great work. If you don't mind me asking, what font did you use? I really like it.
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Currently working on a map/setting of my own, and was googling existing ones for material to think over. This is a uniquely useful resource, in an unexpected way. Can proudly boast that I've avoided nearly all of these tropes. However I'm probably still suffering from some form of "second level clichΓ©" or something. Got the shiny holy empire that's actually the bad guys, got the orc nation that's not actually the bad guys. Wasn't able to avoid creating a pseudo Mediterranean either. Perhaps attempting to be remotely original is a fools errand after all.
(Logged in to Deviant Art for probably the first time in five years to make this simple comment...Ha...)
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It's only a cliche if it is done poorly. You can invert these tropes and do something original.
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I think this is perfect.
Β Β Now I desperately want to create an anthology set exclusively on this map, with different authors utilizing the different available, cliche, terrains with new and inspiring takes on them!!!!
Β That'd be so much fun!!! I'd love to read that... <3
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This is the most stereotypical response to this cliche ass map.
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Where's yer olde Marshland of Hopelessness ??
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