Basic Terrain for Pointcrawls
Lots of digital ink has been spilled on the merits of hexcrawls and pointcrawls (though I think Dinkie Rizzle has the right of it ), and something I've always noticed when looking at pointcrawls, including ones I've made, is that they tend to be fairly straightforward lattices: the actual shape of the web can occasionally be interesting, but I think there's a lot of neat tech that can be borrowed from other map types. The land of Generica, made in Inkarnate to show off some of the tricks I like. Different Travel Times : If you look at something like Stanford's Orbis project , a travel-time map of the Roman world, you'll notice that in the pre-railroad era water functioned as an area's superhighway. In my sophomore year of high school, my US History teacher Mr. Hagstrom told us that it was cheaper to ship goods across the entire Atlantic than to get them thirty miles inland. That can be a bit shocking to us living in the age of the plane, train, and automobile...
