A relevant thing for map making

[Nightfeathers]

I do not know where else to put this. << ... >> ... Anyway! I saw a cool thing, but I can't remember where to link it directly so I shall explain. It requires a bunch of dice, preferably of varied side numbers. Essentially if you need to make a map of a new land for a book or a roleplay or whatever, you take your pile o' dice, shake them up, and drop them. And this draws a map for you using a chart like so:

Rolls of 1-5 are forests
Rolls of 6-8 are water
Rolls of 9-12 are grassland
Rolls of 13-15 are mountains
Rolls of 16-19 are smaller cities
Rolls of 20 are capital city, castles, large cities

Of course you can tweak the numbers to favor whatever you like. And the more dice you have, the bigger the map you can make. You could also tile it out if you don't have many I suppose. The same technique could be used to map out a city or a continent or w/e too. I thought it was really cool and I had to share.

[Ariya Eretsee]

One more reason to get more dice, Ariya has to try this sometime!

[Phoenix Stardancer]

Ultimate campaign from Paizo has a random generator as well for maps and will even let you make random rolls to find out if anything is in that hex. Like a monster, a resource, a structure, that kind of thing. I've used it a time or two