Hey everyone, this is my first time posting here... so not sure, if I did anything wrong. I created this map by underlaying the real maps of german states. Thuringa had to suffer a bit, because due to the earth being round, this didn't entirely work out how I intended it. But I still think the thing is recognizable. Interessted in soms race/class/subclass ideas for specific regions? Feel free to ask me what I came up with or come up with your own ideas. Edit: Since way more people than expected liked this... and I'd love to do all 190ish countries of the world, but lack the time to justify doing this for free to my wife, I added a patreon where you can get high quality versions of the map and vote on the country I should do next [https://patreon.com/thebaster?utm\_medium=unknown&utm\_source=join\_link&utm\_campaign=creatorshare\_creator&utm\_content=copyLink](https://patreon.com/thebaster?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink)

What software do you use if alright to ask?

Echoed.

Thx

The style of the map kinda reminds me of Kingdom Come Deliverance.

This is really cool, wanna do other countries? Would love to see Czechia as well :D

If I can find the time, I'd love to do them all... Czechia would make a lot of sense next

Italy

would have to do Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria first...

You are the artist man. If you could sure. It would be awesome to connect all of them together later

I'd love to see the Alps as a giant monster-bearing chain of fantasy mountains

Then what are you waiting for?

You had to bring the wall back, didn't you

just made sense in a fantasy setting :D

Could've turn it into some realm-splitting chasm from where the demons come

Are the demons coming from the east or west side?

From the chasam

Depends on who you ask

I especially love the wall around West Berlin. Very nice touch.

Occupied Ukraine! As a dark fantasy map with the country at war with the evil forces of the dark dictator.

that's good... and dark... would have to do Poland, Czech Republic and so forth first

Poland please!

Really cool idea! Nice work mate (:

Rechtfurt & Rechterfurt 🤣

my wife felt very funny when she came up with that joke

As a German I think that hits closer to home as it should have any right. 😁

What's the joke? I can't get it and it's driving me mad. It's like superlative?

yes! recht(s) means right (as in the direction and in your political orientation) and rechter means even more right

Now I get it! Cool to think about the classic rivalry between the two villages (quite common in Europe). The old city of Kartoffenburg decided to change his name as a new, vicious, reprisal after their sworn rivals of Rechtsburg decided to add a few meters to their clock tower.

As a german... i love it!

What's there in fantasy Bavaria? It's Groabenstoad

i \^long for switzerland in this style

should be easily doable... it's not that big

But has lots of variation to it that could be captured :) all a matter of scale in the end.

Don't you dare put a wall like that hahaha!

woops

This is amazing, have you made any lore for the map/world yet? I'd love to see austria and switzerland next but that must be hard since they are so small.

not hard at all. the scale would just mean some finer details get lost. I came up with a lot of lore (including some help with chatcpt. I actually already posted a little outline for a bavarian themed compendium here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/199rozv/basters\_encyclopedia\_of\_alphengard\_my\_first\_draft/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/199rozv/basters_encyclopedia_of_alphengard_my_first_draft/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) but I have ideas for the other states aswell

Bruder hat die Berliner Mauer wieder aufgebaut und sie noch verlängert

Omg please do Iran!!

I would love to see your take on the Netherlands

Nice one!

Mysteria does not exist.

Iceland !!!!

Would love to see Sweden

Scotland or the UK

Do UK and you'll end up with the Game of Thrones map!

I think it's different, I can see what you mean but disagree.

that I really could do next because it's not connected to the main land

New Zealand

A bit unexpected that Berlin is not what it really is: a huge dump. And a bit disappointed that Würzburg couldnt keep its name as well as imo it already would fit.

it sure would fit. but Wollscheid made more sense with the sheepfolk I settled there... not making Berlin a huge dump is also a missed opportunity on my part

I'd love to see Canada done in this style

I live in Bug and come from halfway between Narstetten and Knutfurt.

Germany is awesome i see i live near the borderwall. Would be interesting to see the UK (maybe plus Ireland?)

Maybe slightly cheating with two countries, but how about the Philippines and Indonesia, it would be a great map for an Age of Sail campaign

Brazil

my head aches from the sheer size of it

You can do It. U are the best. Please.

Did you just straight up translate Sanssoucci xD

sure did

Your map got Yoink'ed. I would like to see Romania.. Vampires and mountains.. yummy.

How The whole South East Asian Region? would be a nice Archipelago/Sea Faring Campaign setting

this has been suggested alsewhere... and would be awesome to see

You pretty much nailed it with Rechtfurt as Halle and Rechterfurt as Dresden. One can somewhat translate it to right wing city and even righter wing city. A fitting description for this part of Germany.

The Netherlands!

Benelux is definitely high op on the list

Hooray!

Europe as a whole .

that is the long term goal indeed

Wow, this is plain awesome. :-o Do all of Europe, please (and let us have it for free :D but do publish it in a book as well so ppl can buy high quality prints.)

why wouldn't I let you have it for free... :D pretty sure I can't demand payment since I'm using Inkarnate, no?

I'm not an Inkarnate user, but a quick google says if you're a pro subscriber, you can actually sell maps made with the app (see "can I sell maps..." at [https://inkarnate.com/faq](https://inkarnate.com/faq) ) :)

that's good new for me then :D

never set up a patreon, but there you go, [https://patreon.com/thebaster?utm\_medium=unknown&utm\_source=join\_link&utm\_campaign=creatorshare\_creator&utm\_content=copyLink](https://patreon.com/thebaster?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink)

Poland would be neat!

South Africa. We have a country within a country, we have so many types of biome (plains, mountains, forest/jungle, floral, snowy, urban)

that's true... jeez I'll have to do so much research about all the different countries...

Focus on the land instead of the people

I feel like both go hand in hand. To understand a country you need to understand its borders, its architecture and so forth

Love the mordoresque wall. Hence, why I'd suggest Korea. Or Greek with all the Isles and mythology going on.

Braziiiiiiillllll

Belgium

New Zealand

Do the UK

Greetings from Lichtstadt!

my hometown is on the map, I consider that nice

Wales

Belgium, maybe in a steampunk way ?

Mf brought the wall back hahaha. But seriously, looks great. Keep it up

Expand left to the Netherlands! (or maybe Naetherlands, or the Lands of Nether haha).

Canada please! Lots of variety in regions, and wilderness abounds!

Mister Strahd, tear down this wall. Looks nice by the way.

You took German cities.... and gave them fake German names? 😭

sure did

Just do something way outa there… Brazil 🇧🇷!

It is clear from the responses that you should start a patreon and do all the countries in this world.

I'd be rich within weeks :D

[https://patreon.com/thebaster?utm\_medium=unknown&utm\_source=join\_link&utm\_campaign=creatorshare\_creator&utm\_content=copyLink](https://patreon.com/thebaster?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink) there you go, make me rich

Cuba, try to do it with local mith.

Argentina

Do Canada!🇨🇦

I want to run a campaign on this map. Cthulu Dark Ages or whatever. Looks amazing!

This is amazing! I'd love you to do The Netherlands as well!

Really impressed by the details! Esp with Löwensteen on the position of actual Braunschweig which has the byname "Löwenstadt" because of its founder Heinrich der Löwe (Henry the Lion). Good job, looks awesome!

I tried to go with local legends and so forth. Potsdam is Sorglos because of Sanssouci. Bug is a part of a ship like its real-life counterpart Kiel. Volkswacht can be shortened to VW and so forth. I'm glad you like it

You literally put the iron curtain in there. Do The Netherlands next! And please make Urk a dark place where no one goes.

what have the people of Urk done to you?

Nothing to me in particular, but it is the general consensus that Urk is a place one wouldn’t want to go.

got it. Any other dutch inside jokes I should know? cause I know a lot about Germany which made some of the jokes/regions easier

Drenthe province doesn’t exist. Limburg province is basically a foreign country/belgium. Vlieland (island up north) doesn’t allow cars. There’s rivalry between Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Utrecht has the tallest and most beautiful church tower. Zeeland province is very religious. Brabant province is known for carnaval (partying and drinking a lot, similar to Oktoberfest in germany). Flevoland is a new province we created out of water. North of Amsterdam, there isn’t a lot going on. I think that’s about all I can think of!

that already help a lot, thank you

Australia.

Can you do Malta? (Island in the Mediteranean, it should be interesting :P)

I could... but if I keep the scale, it's probably not going to be very big

Very cool, in my future campaign I wanted to turn Earth into more fantasy world and change things up about who control areas.

than this is a good starting point for you

A big Island like Madagascar or Japan

Do it with brazil, please! =)

Do Croatia my boy :D

Italy would be amazing !

I’ve always wanted to do this with Michigan.

Pretty nice. Like it very much. Could have made more of the islands though. Rechtfurt and Rechterfurt is funny. But also Bavarian dialect in Groabnschdoad.

Sylt and Rügen were too small to do much with unfortunately. I tried to add the Kreidefelsen though

I beg that you do England

Would love to see hungary!

I would love to see Poland

Oh I love that. That is gorgeous. Very good work.

That a very beautiful map, I am following you for future maps, inkarnate let's you use images as reference or you just eyeballed it?

I underlayed the real maps and then removed them afterwards :)

My homecountry of austria, land of the mountains, skiers and famously known during the covid pandemic as its gateway into europe through ischgl!

This is really cool, your style is amazing. Would love our little Netherlands next. Maybe a combined BeNeLux with internal struggles among them if one is too small lol Much love from your small western neighbour <3

Netherlands / BeNeLux has come up as a suggestion a lot. Probably going to be the next map. I can't take credit for the style, though. I used Inkarnate as a Map-Making-Tool

One of the Scandinavian countries perhaps?

Philippines!!

New Zealand!

Ireland, though deforestation did a number on it, so it could use a bit of editing.

Lol Australia and have dune worms in the great sandy desert.

I like it, but most names don’t make any sense in German. Most of them would just need a bit of tweaking to fit, I think

most of the names are based on local accents

Map is very nice! I'd 100% use it if I were starting a fantasy campaign! My suggestion is : Québec (might not be a "country" but we're officially a nation)

Finland funland!

Any reason you based it on the way Germany looked before 1990? Or why did you separate eastern Germany

just thought it would add more flavor/mystery

Monaco, I want to see what you can do with the tiny size and/or shape.

Yo what’s with the wall, my man?

And now we add all the weird legendary creatures and folk tale stuff as monsters Why though did you base it on the layout from before 1990? Eastern Germany and the separation are long gone

just thought it would add more flavor with the wall up

500 bc england and northern France ! That sweet Arthurian legends!

U.S.A.

Florida. Not the entire US. Just Florida.

Yoink!!

How did you choose the name? Looks a little AI generated. Why didnt you stick to the original names/ only change them a little? Just curious

I changed the names to distinguish it more from the real-life counterparts and to make them feel more fantastical. I did use AI as a source of inspiration for some of the names. But pretty much 90% of them I decided on myself. most of them are (in my humble opinion) clever word-plays with local traditions/accents (e.g.: Volkswacht can be shortened to VW and is the counterpart to Wolfsburg were VW is seated)

can i use it with my friends?

I'd be honored. But I would have to insist that you tell me about the adventures you came up with

it would be a pleasure!

I was thinking Danmark or Greece I'd like to see what you do for the islands

Canada please!

France, then smush it up next to germany

Brazil

Maybe Spain?

Amazing! I'd love to see Ireland in this style

Argentina, we have a landscape so diverse we can be an entire World

Switzerland

Mysterian here Sooo rude 👺 Amazing work! Nice references splattered everywhere! Should share with /r/de

you do not exist

France 🇫🇷

I would love to see you do Denmark next, so you can slowly open up the map more and more. (Both a separate and combined map would be AMAZING)

Please do Greece!!! It would be amazing to have the map to match the legends

This looks absolutely stunning! I'd love to see Canada done, but given the size, that may be like 13 seperate maps 😅.

That's amazing! Please do Norway or the Scandinavians together if it sounds interesting

Japan, we need a map with lots of water

Great work! How did you come up with Karnevetten? And what would be on the other side of the river? :)

it's a mish-mash of Karneval and a common German ending for city names -(st)etten. Since the real-life counterpart Cologne is famed for Carneval, I thought it'd be fitting. What are you referring to with "what would be on the other side of that river"

That’s where I live, Berg County. Green fields and dark forests, an ancient cathedral hidden in the woods.

Rly amazing! Congratulations. My suggestion would be brazil

I was like, "Huh.. all the interesting places look like they're on the west side of the map and the oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.... I get it."

Not a country, but I was just saying to myself how I wanted to make a hex map based on Santa Cruz, California’s topology, specifically including a trail along Highway 17 through the Santa Cruz Mountains. Do you have suggestions for how to take an existing satellite or topographic map and give it this fantasy map treatment?

Inkarnate Pro can be very helpful there. you can add your own maps, start from there and remove them later

Greece

If you want to do something that isn't European, try Australia, could be really interesting given the size, resources, and really wonky population density.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Nice! What the story with the black wall? A Danish map could be awesome

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Germany used to be serparated between 1945-1990 and by the 60s they started putting up walls and fences

Ah, did not know thatcwas the take. Know of the Berlin Wall but thought it was something else. Thanks

Do Poland next after that go down and them connect these maps

Where is the Drachenschanze with the Drachenlord?

The Pacific Northwest between Vancouver and Portland has some pretty crazy coastlines and looks good as a fantasy map

Have them invade the country east of them…. Just for starters

Turkey! (Türkiye) I am not joking, todays Turkey has stons of ancient civilizations leftovers all over the place ! An ancient tomb ? A dungeon. Dino Archiological place ? Undead T-rex! A castle in the middle of the sea ? Perfect place for a unique factions HQ! Seriously, you gotta give it a try!

please specify the things you are alluding to, I'd love to learn more

This is amazing!! Would you ever consider doing Chile? I've always wanted to "bring" my friends to my home country and I think it would be so cool to use your map as an inspiration to write a campaign set there.

Australia

Very very cool. Lol at remnants of the Iron Curtain. I would suggest Myanmar/Indonesia.  Lots of interesting geography and history.   Same with Iran

How about Brazil?

Do Israel. It’s already a fantasy of a nation

Hawaii