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Who is qualified to make a world? In search of the magic of maps


Shortly after David Gaider was born, his parents bought a set of 1971 encyclopaedias to freeze-frame the world as it wa…

Or in the case of his favourite map ( of Hochoch in the Greyhawk setting of D&D), to use an example, "I'm thinking about guys pulling their fishing boats up the shore and parking them at the end of the day, or the folks that live outside of the city walls; like, what the hell do they do when there's armies on the border? This time, the game would spread across areas of Ferelden we hadn't been to as well as some we had; up to Kirkwall and into surrounding Free Marches, and then west to the city of Orlais and onwards until it reached past the Waking Sea and arid desert land. Thank you: David Gaider, Tanya Kirk, Tom Harper, Francesca Baerald, Mike Schley, Deven Rue, Cody J King, Damien Mammoliti, Marc Moureau, Andrew Shouldice, and Konstantinos Dimopolous.

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