Feels a bit like I'm milking this, but I've had such positive respons for the maps that I feel it's useful to provide updates when they occur. Now and then, I find some time to expand it, moving in a clockwise circle as I go. This is the 6-mile map again: 6.67 miles per hex.
I find it easy to stare at.
The reader should be able to see now the density of Transylvania in the upper left, and the core of Moldavia forming on the right. Muntenia's density happens off the bottom of the map, as the Danube River is approached.
For those who might see and wonder, the "3" that appears in the Shassburg hex was an accidental copied cell. There's a "1" underneath the 3 that can barely be seen. I've fixed it.
Distantly I thought of you when I saw this!
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/emollick/status/1479679442662346753
Without the twitter.
ReplyDelete1881. Nine years after Phileas Fogg and Passepartout supposedly did the world in 80 days; Calgary's incorporation as a municipality; 3 years before the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway was laid to where I am now. That made a huge change in that large pink and blue area in western Canada.
In 1872, the explorer John Macoun left Part Arthur (modern Thunder Bay) on lake Superior, July 22nd; he and his companions the Reverend Grant and Sanford Fleming (who would later invent the idea of time zones) reached Fort Edmonton by September. Macoun pushed on from there with Charles Horetzky, through Peace River Pass (called "Hell's Gate" by the Hudson's Bay Company) in late October. They tramped through British Columbia in the winter and reached New Westminster just before Christmas (he spent Christmas Day in Victoria). Even though B.C. was a province, it's the first recorded instance of the journey being undertaken by anyone.
Just food for thought.
I had the fourth session of my new campaign last weekend, and I want you know I was able to make good use of the jousting piglet menu. A dinner was to be thrown in the players’ honor, so before the game I selected several items to form a list of courses being served for the meal.
ReplyDeleteThe players really dug it!
It’s just a pity that we didn’t have any of the dishes on hand for real…