Characters will often come across maps in a fantasy setting. These maps may be to provide directions or clues. This is a collection of 100 different maps that can be dropped into a game.

These maps can be used to enliven an existing, but boring map, as a source of potential adventure hooks or simply as background colour and distractions.

Some of the maps described are small and easily portable; others are much larger and essentially immovable. Some are made of simple paper of vellum whilst others use more unusual substances such as metal, stone or magic.

To use the list roll d100 for a random result although it is better to select them manually.

Here are some sample results:

33. Journal – A black, leather-bound journal containing good quality paper with many fragmentary maps inside. These maps are in pen and depict parts of dungeon and cave networks, fragmentary
parts of buildings, small areas of wilderness and bits of towns and cities. Although the maps are all very well drawn, they are essentially useless. None of the maps specify where they are of and even someone in a location that has a fragmentary map in the journal would have difficulty matching where they are with the area mapped.
34. Leather – A small scrap of barely-treated leather, identifiable as having come from an ordinary cow, which has a slightly rotten smell to it thanks to the inadequate tanning, and which will continue to deteriorate unless treated in some way. The scrap is raggedly shaped and only a few inches in size. Scraped into one side of the leather is a crude map showing what appears to be a single rectangular room, with doors on the two short lengths. A path that meanders across the room joins the two doors.
35. Marbles – A large leather bag full of glass marbles. The marbles are all 1/4” in diameter and radiate a slight magical aura. There are easily several hundred marbles in total and they are all different, solid colours. There are many shades of blues, greens, browns and greys. If the marbles are poured out onto a surface, they will start to move around of their own accord. When movement finally ceases, the marbles will have formed into a map, with the different colours apparently depicting different geographic features of a large patch of countryside.

Reviews for 100 Fantasy Maps to Find

“This is a great source for random and unusual maps to find.”

sdonohue  (four and a half stars)

Released: 24th November 2018 Pages: 18

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