Roleplaying-related Kickstarter projects are continuing to emerge day after day and in times like these it’s difficult to be able to give everyone the right space so that everyone can calmly evaluate what to support. But we could not fail to present you an interesting Italian cartographic project: Ultra Detailed Maps for RPG Adventures. With still a few days before the end of the campaign there is room for everybody.
The home of good ideas
The project is created by Good Ideas…, Italian team with already 12 Kickstarter campaign done in its history. They define themselves as a group of creators, designers and dreamers who want to share ideas and have been active since the end of 2018. To look at their story in crowdfunding they have never had to deal with large numbers, but have always proposed original and interesting ideas. There is desire to create and love for details.
The good idea of today: maps!
The path of creators and designers who love roleplaying games sooner or later leads them to the possibility of creating maps. It is inevitable. What exactly do they want to do? Let’s start from their premise. Often players are faced with overly generic maps of a region, lacking in details and game ideas, or on the contrary you may have to deal with ultra-detailed maps, but for which there is no overview of the territory.
For this reason, Good Ideas… proposes the mapping of two different invented regions, each of which will be represented in 8 different maps. Each region will be fully represented by a general map, which will show some points of interest. Subsequently, this area will be divided into 3 zones, each subject to a more precise and detailed map with also cues for exploration. The set will be completed with 4 even more detailed maps of as many specific areas, particularly important or evocative places with a meticulous graphic description to allow an in-depth interaction.
The maps will be in high resolution (2048×1536) and full colors, with captions made with medieval style fonts. They can be received in digital format or as a physical reward on parchment colored paper. It is a Kickstarter make/100 project, therefore it can be made in a maximum of one hundred copies, each of which will be signed and numbered.
There are no official previews of what will be achieved but only example images to make it clear which type of style and realization the actual production will be based on.
The road to pledges
At the pledge level, the proposal for Ultra Detailed Maps for Fantasy RPG is quite simple. It takes €12 to receive the digital reward, then 16 maps in PDF format. For the physical version (without PDF files) the price rises to €29. The only other pledge is a special offer at €100 which offers both the physical and PDF versions, plus the digital edition of three previous projects, called IDEAS!, IDEAS! 2 e IDEAS! 3, with hooks and plots for fantasy adventures.