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RE: An Old Map I Made

in #map7 years ago

This is a nice drawing, but, it can't really be called a map.

map
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noun
1 . a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.

It is missing the names of mountains and cities and roads ...

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It's more for a game, as I said, where the characters would be pushed around the squares. Adding words would have gotten in the way, though had I finished the map I might have if that would be beneficial to the gameplay. Not labelling the geography and man-made features is not uncommon for tabletop games. Here is an example better than mine:

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I realize that: "It's more for a game", but even for a game, there needs to be names of places and features and roads for it to be called a map ...