This week's map is the Bank of Indusaal, and our focus is in creating a map for planning a heist. It goes with our video on our YouTube channel, How to Map for a Heist

It happens to all of us occasionally, but when you’re creating your fantasy world, you may occasionally need a map of that city to aid you and your heroes in your adventures. You need to be sketching cities if you want to stay consistent.

Today, we're taking a closer look at drawing maps of sites and significant locations. As a writer or a game master, you're going to want to plan out the encounters that your protagonists face, whether they are in a peaceful village, a bristling castle, or a dank mine.

This week, we're exploring how to draw striking dungeon maps for your fantasy world, tips and tricks for creating interesting sites!

Hello, adventurers! Welcome back to the Red Quills, where we go through all of the tips and tricks you can add to your fantasy world to make it as lush and vibrant as our own. Today, we’re discussing culture in your fantasy maps and worlds – something that we have written about before, but we’re going to go more into depth on it today. 

Mapping the culture of your world can seem difficult, tedious, or messy - but it doesn't have to be that way! This is the weekly map for the topic: Culture in Fantasy Worlds. The Rostivani Peoples map details the history around the fallen titan and the many wonders of their world and peoples.

So you want to become a merchant? It's long hours, the pack animals don't appreciate you, and you're never quite sure whether your investment will pay off. But if you're still certain, here's a quick guide for the writer of a fantasy world: a list of tips and tricks to help you to flesh out your fantasy trade.

Trade maps: no longer in use, but once an indispensable tool for anyone on the road looking to make a profit. This week, the Red Quills are talking about Trade in Fantasy Worlds: in our YouTube tutorial and the Shorts series coming out this week. This map, the Aelidian Islands, is a resource to go along with our 30-min tutorial on drawing your own.

When writing war for your fantasy world, it may be easy to think only of one kind of war. Of weapons and armies, marching towards one another on the field of battle. But unconventional war - war of different means and motive - can be far more involved and compelling.

The map shows how to give an overview of your major battles and conflicts: supply lines, troop movements, distinct fortifications and the stages in a skirmish. Its focus is the fictional Twenty-Day War, in which two opposing sides fight over a castle in a lake.

The scale of the war lends itself to the scale of the parties involved. A war world has spheres of influence that extend across continents, but a civil war in a small country will have cities or individuals as players with their own allies and following.

War is a messy business - if you're writing the fighting in your fantasy world, it's one thing to write the emotions of a soldier on the front lines, and another to consider the implications of the logistics.

Conflict is the core of any story - and history, whether fictional or not, is no different. What is the scale of the conflict in question, when you are writing your fantasy world? Here are five to choose from.