Re: Concartography (was: Unsolicited abuse)

Adam Parrish wrote:

>         This is my experience exactly.  One of the first things I did
> after reading _The Hobbit_ was to draw elaborate maps of far-off imaginary
> continents.  Most of my early conlang efforts were actually just attempts
> to make up meanings for the nonsense place names I wrote on the maps.  It
> seems as if conlanging and concartography go hand in hand.
Hmmm... seems like lots of us have had similar experiences.  When I was
in early highschool highschool, I was really interested in both scifi books and
Dungeons and Dragons, and when I played I always liked creating elaborate
worldsystems to go along with the gameplaying.  Made it easier to go on
whole campaigns, just more fun too.

Right now, I'm working on a conworld for my new conlang, Phaleran
(I've released a bit of this already on the list about a week or two ago).
Eventually, I'll have it all on the web, with maps and all.

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