Riverboat Gambler: Keyed Map

No more fiction. What happens next will be decided by the actions of the players.

 

I threw out the Send a Gunboat river generator and drew a sinuous river with tributaries leading to keyed locations, then studded the main channel with villages and keyed locations from the Settlement Gazetteer. My first draft had too much content spread over stretches of desert that there was no reason to explore. I compromised on my vision of vast empty wasteland studded with occasional tombs to create something more dense with content.

 

The area in the top right is the delta, leading out to the sea. It's not playable (picked clean by prior generations of explorers) but if you need to generate adventures there try the Monsters of the Necropolis River Delta from Shuttered Room.

 

The formation enclosed by the circle below the Grange Bank is the pastry mesa, a raised tableland encircled by two channels of the Hog.

 

The line that sections off the bottom of the map is a cliff. The terrain south of that line is the High Plain. 

 

KEY

Some key entries are tied to rock formations which are visible at a distance, though the associated dungeon is only visible on close investigation.

4.38 Baradye The Blue and Red Dwarves on a chalk sphinx hoodoo VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

5.74 Shrine of the Dragon

7.74 Shrine of Sanctification. Barrier cliffs of red granite VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE 

8.13 Desiccated Village 

8.18 Potion Addict and cliffs with Barbican of the Blaster Caster. Mastaba VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

9.28 Meatcamp

10.49 Palace of the Naga Raja

13.44 Doom of Mages

13.59 Oh Gap (swift flowing but safe passage to the high plain by boat)

15.32 Tomb of the God

15.57 Yellow Cliffs. VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE but pirate hideout is not

17.22 Village of Indentures growing cash crops, hiding from undead in bunker

20.07 Village of Hogmen growing edible crops on consecrated ground

22.26 Sunken Wadi

22.48 Evil Carouse

26.38 Widow's Grove on banded sandstone mesa VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

26.51 Cataract of Statues

27.53 Salt Sanctuary 

28.14 Deserted Oasis 

29.44 Petrified Logging Camp

31.24 Village of Sharecroppers growing edible crops on bedrock bedrock

32.30 Unquiet Tomb

32.64 Shade Grove

32.74 Dent in the Shield on black basalt shield volcano VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

33.21 Convicts growing mandrake with canals

36.11 Oil Field

36.44 Bat King

38.21 Flooded Forge nestled in porphyry scablands VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE.

38.47 Village of Homesteaders raising animals protected by canals

39.35 Village of Adventurers growing food protected by Daylight spell VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

39.56 Marsh on Mogart's Creek with mastaba VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

39.69 Pleasure Dome VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

44.16 Pharos VISIBLE AT A DISTANCE

45.64 Garden Without Weeds

46.28 Grange Bank

46.52 Meteor Field

47.48 Meteor Mine

48.36 Charioteer 

53.65 Cave of Birds (a high cave with birds that undead can't get to)

56.39 Homesteaders growing cash crops protected by canals

63.16 Cerebro Cerebro Cerebro

 

Here's a version of the map with only the terrain features and known settlements.

 

These maps were made using the last release of Hexographer before they released Worldographer. It's clunky as hell but it's not browser based and it has a good onion skin feature for tracing over a paper map.