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Thought this looked amazing. I love this sort of thing and wanted to do it as soon as I seen it.
I loved that some people wanted to assign which dice and it's number had to do with the topography.
However, I didn't like same repetition over and over for these.
So I made this.
As you can see from the image (This is the one from tumblr not mine) There is a Rain-forest (d6-4) with an Energy farm to it's east (d12-2) and a Volcano (d4-1), and on it's south is a floating Island (d20-5) with a some Woodlands (d6-2) and Estate (d10-2) even further south, and to it's west is a Fold Mountain with an orchard further west.
You can world build and say the red d12's energy farm get's it;s energy from the green d4 volcano.
Yea I am a dork, and reddit would probably love this but you guys get to see my dorky-ness first.
FP Edit: Thanks for the front page. Also
1: If the place of the dice makes no sense remove it, nothing is mandatory while doing this method.
2: If you don't have many dice you can note down what you have rolled < I use d20/3 notations> and roll again. Or you can ask your friends to join in and lend you their dice.
3: There is a couple of links in the comments with links for a pound of dice bags.
4: Send maps? Or, lewd, rude, nudes ( I am a traditionalist).
5 Or filled character sheets.
CountTyroneRugen
I'm in vacation (therefore without the macaroni-map method) and I was just wondering how best to work on my new map. This is fantastic!
ISureHopeThisUsernameIsNotTaken
Interesting dice game dots
bdtksneo
TacticoolWolf
ilikeblondehair
Won't have consistent biomes, which might be good if you're creating a continent, but weird if youre going for a Britain-sized landmass
Dejavuus
Im using this next time i make a map. Buying that many dice is gonna be expensive though...
Arracor
Nah like 20 bucks.
Akyua
That's quite the "handful"!
TehOuchies
That is more than a handful or maybe I just have Trump hands.
axionzetaone
It's a D&D Player Handful, which is typically larger due to overflowing and dropping a few D4s along the way. Watch your step.
SirPorkington
I love this! Upvotes for all!
Metalhead2poche
@MaybeNotHughJackman
iAphaz
Marchi ;)
OnlyMathua
I wish @RepostStats would tell me when this was last posted because I saved this last time I saw it :P
MinMaxMunchkin
The "So I made this" is OC the rest isn't
OnlyMathua
Ah, still cool. I do enjoy this post :P Never done D&D but always wanted to :P Hope your map works out for you :D
MinMaxMunchkin
Look at your local area, my local Y has gaming club which has "... the card game", warhammer, D&D three versions, and numerous board games.
JuanTea
Some of these make no sense next to each other but I like your way better.
SaltyJake
I don't get why Tundra and plains are too separate things... just set weather regions. A plain in the north = tundra, south = desert, etc.
bellaluna
That would just make things creative. Many things could happen in a... vegetable prison. Or a plague volcano.
JuanTea
I assumed they were just next to each other. Like a prison who work manual labour and grow vegetables. (1/?)
JuanTea
Or a volcano that cases the nearby rivers and streams to be timing with bacteria causing a plague. (2/2)
bellaluna
Yeah, alright, if you're into using logic for your fantasy games. I GUESS.
HelaSisterOfThor
And so, Cones of Dunshire is born.
AlexDuos
This would have come in handy before I started ripping off real world topographical maps.
BeerNinjaEsq
when it comes to maps, do you really need them to be random? I mean, do players actually care when maps are arbitrary?
rshini
Sometimes it's just fun
Dracon27
It helps for worldbuilding. This way you don't have to make shit up on the spot 24/7, you can go off what the dice start with.
BeerNinjaEsq
what I mean is, if I just arbitrarily draw a "random" shape, versus rolling dice to do it, does anyone care?
Dracon27
No? It's not a rule on how to do things. It just helps the DM speed up the process. you can roll the dice and change anything you want
AlexCory21
This method would be perfect for Tabletop Simulator! Easier cleanup too!
Prettysweet
I wish I D&D'd
JockMcSting
Am not sure there's a lot stopping you.
Prettysweet
No one to play w/ not really a variety of friends either
JockMcSting
Okay, sure, it's not that simple.....but why start out defeatist? Other D&D posts I've seen have enthusiastic Imgur people meeting up.
NothingToSeeHereCarryOn
Maybe check local game stores. They sometimes host dnd and other tabletop games. There's also online resources like roll20. :)
NothingToSeeHereCarryOn
Game and/or comic shops **
frozenpissglove
I'm doing this for my 40K campaign. This is fucking brilliant.
Nevets123
If I were to do something like this, I'd keep the single d20 table, and use the different dice to "weigh" the results
robbers19
Do you recommend a good world-map making simulator?
MadDucks
So if I have about 200-300 dice ...
ZircZZ
Nicely done! Good guideline if you have top start from scratch and need a baseline map to work from and iterate on.
IconicNebula
I don't know what game this is, but it looks informative and hope it reaches people
vyolet
Dnd
Gnuispir8
This works for basically anything you need a fictional map for, assuming you have a lot of dice.
LurkMasterP
Who doesn't have a lot of dice? I mean come on.
igniskonig
itisanimgurnaccount
Any cartography nerds gonna draw this up or what?
armeggedonCounselor
I'm keeping this.
RunningBackwardsThroughACornFieldNaked
Keep it and repost it in another week and claim it to be yours just as this fuckin duche turd did
armeggedonCounselor
Nah, I don't post images, save for a few.
04FoxSake
FloppyTheFighter
KNOPE
MinMaxMunchkin
Send me a map when you do?
04FoxSake
Yesss
PuzzleHaven
Who the heck has that many dice though
neonoptic
Any sane tabletop gamer has a bunch of dice for multiple occasions/collecting.
Juggernaughtty
DeStock
A fucking Dungeon Master
tipitiwitchet
I probably have 40-50 sets between me and my roommate, not counting individuals and novelty dice like d34's
tipitiwitchet
*we both run 3.5 games with new players who usually have to borrow dice
Hyero
I once bought around this many once. I found a stand at a convention selling them at "As many as you can get in this cup for 5 dollars."
Acefowl
Every long-time D&D gamer I've ever met. Hell, one of my DMs had enough to do this 5 times over.
BlackIC
I buy my dice by the pound, so I know what you're talking about.
tooomanysteves
Me
Coldin
All the groups I ever played with always had that one guy with 100+ dice. And heck I have a couple dozen just picking up new set on occasion
KangInDaNarth
natabee13
I started playing Pathfinder in November and I've already bought three sets of 7 dice and 36 d6's ... So give it a couple years?
ImAShittyTransAm
Have you seen q workshop? Thematic and high-quality! (and my hand-painted Japanese d6 is a whore. Rolls high for everyone.)
natabee13
Yessss. My DM has a set of metal dice from them that are amazing.
ImAShittyTransAm
Yeah, I've looked at them, but in the end went with the red Celtic 3d and the Japanese, as the steampunk dice cup can only hold 3 sets. 1/?
ImAShittyTransAm
Though certainly get a set if you like the look! They're worth every cent! (4/4)
ImAShittyTransAm
d20. (it rolls low as a player and high as a DM. I found it on the ground years ago, before I knew what DnD was. It was destiny.) (3/4)
ImAShittyTransAm
(the third is my first set. I have a soft spot for them.) They're pretty dang good, and they've yet to be corrupted by my blood-seeking 2/?
quillfreminenti
I bought a "bag of holding" from Amazon that had 20 sets of dice (4,6,8,10,%10,12,20) and added the 5+ sets that I already had to it.
ImAStupidFace
How much?
ErinFromTheOffice
Macros64
doof2
Nope.
TheresAGermanWordForThat
They just accumulate.
vyolet
You'd be surprised
ZircZZ
I do. Even more. Started D&D mid 80'ties. :)
Cambino
Eightyties
wajaba
My Dad played first edition and handed down his dice to me when I picked up Pathfinder
zerogenix
People who are not filthy casuals like you.
Kavrae
I know a few people. Sadly I lost most of my dice in the last move..... So don't have many left.
Panopticon83
I easily have 5 pounds of dice.
rshini
Also lot of players try to game things by mix and matching dice they feel rolls better, so they buy a lot of sets for the perfect mix.
axionzetaone
You must not know very many D&D players. Especially DMs.
NATA5
They sell 1 pound bags of dice for like $20
SociallyAwkwardCanadianMoose
as my D&D group always says, you can never have too many dice. If I want to try this I will need another bag of dice it seems ;)
yourCleverUsername10
Where?
quillfreminenti
https://www.amazon.ca/Wiz-Dice-GDIC-1000-Polyhedral-Multiple/dp/B009R6J8RY/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1497040515&sr=8-5&keywords=bag+of+holding
yourCleverUsername10
Wow. Thank.
UNRAVELINGTHEWORLD
They're mostly defects.
NATA5
Amazon/other online retailers and I'm sure at your local gaming/hobby store.
Kodaxmax
Do you have an idea how many dice get lost in game of DnD with newbies? XD you need the spares.
earthymalt
Dorks
MegaDeuce
I seent this before, but with beans. Great for making natural looking continents!
doctorbees
Every person in my DnD group.
ImAShittyTransAm
I don't have many dice when compared to my friends. I have 3 personal sets, and a d6 and d20 that aren't from any set, and 3 loaner sets.
notsgnivil
In my dice kit (a parts organizer from Lowe's): four polyhedral sets, three 10d10 sets, one 12d6 set, a four Fudge dice set, various others
notsgnivil
Stupid Imgur app won't let me add a picture here
Theoreticalheretic
Heh.
cavallabear
My first thought was...how big are this person's hands if this is just a handful of dice?!
Istoleyourbooks
Exactly what I was thinking.
tcsv23
You should know, you've seen his penis.
stoatmaster
Clever. Have fun. I guess you don't have to absolutely follow the nice but use them as a starting point.
TheSilentOod
But what if I wanna follow the nice but?
PedanticGonkDroid
Ah yes, the "Oh right, I forgot something over this way" walk.
MinMaxMunchkin
Definitely not mandatory. D'n'd is suppose to be fun, not stressing why there's a carnivorous forest next to the Capital City on a Mountain.
VictarionsCrispyArm
I think the term is coniferous forest. Carnivorous forest would be one that fed on meat. But it is d&d so that might be what you wanted!
firedwarfs
The former rulers of the city thought they'd be a fun tourist attraction, then were eaten, now the walled city fears the carnivores simple
ipostwhatyouseeabove
Life finds a way
PedanticGonkDroid
^This guy for DM
Omeganeo
Why do we build towns and cities in tornado ally? Or in any geographically unsafe area? Because we can
aychland
Or strategic value or tradition.
Arracor
I have a conundrum here where I like the old version's method more, but I also like having some of the more interesting quirks of the new >
Arracor
> version you made. But, I think the new version has too much weird stuff, like the whole d20 die, and it has some things like the d4 >>
Arracor
>> where some of the terminology isn't very helpful/intuitive. How would you adjust things to cater to more of a middle ground..?
Arracor
Oh, not to mention, the new method places too much emphasis on how many of each die you're using. If I only have 5 d4s, my world is doomed >
afriendinneedsafriendindeedafriendwithmemesisbetter
Have a map making party and take turns tossing dye, make a game of it. A drinking game.
Gaehhn
You should totally add rules for which areas can be next to each other so you don't end up with a patch of tundra between rainforests.
axionzetaone
Alternatively, take it as a worldbuilding challenge. You have this tundra amidst rainforest. Why?
axionzetaone
Magic accident or curse? Bizarre weather phenomenon due to planar interference? Fey meddling? Winter-wizard's personal demesne? etc.
Gaehhn
I usually play in less magic-rich environments but yes, you could do that as well.
axionzetaone
Yeah I'm definitely a high-magic-preferred DM. The more fantastical and bizarre, the better; no one is going to mistake my games for LOTR.