I'm a relatively new dm (about a year and a half of experience), and my last 2 campaigns ended because the world was too inconsistent within itself. After a short break, I decided to plan out my world a bit more before starting, not fully obviously (because id like to play this millennia lol).
Anyways, I've been working on a map (just a general idea of where the continents are), and made a grid to go over it, but I'm not sure how much each square should be worth (in size).
I'm not sure we can help here without a bit more detail - I gather they are continents, but that really doesn't narrow it down!
Pick an island and give an estimate of how big you want it to be - the cluster of small islands in the middle could be akin to small islands off the coast (1-4 miles long, making a square about 10 miles) or they could be the size of the UK (about 1000 miles up and 250 across), making a square 2-3k miles across!
Once you've said "I want this island to be about as big as X", you can extrapolate it from there. I made this mistake when I made my map; I drew a city which was 10 miles across, then drew the rest of the map, then realise that, to scale, the city would have been about 1000 miles across! so I had to redraw (hand drawn on paper).
I tend to not use grids on world scale or overview maps - but rather just a size scale in one corner of the map. Looking at the group of continents that the map shows one of your squares could be anything from 1 x1 mile to 100x100 miles.
However, it does look like you have some really nice details with archipelago like structures at the coast lines.
You could use a rule of thumb - e.g. if this is all the continents and you want to make something compatible to earth in scale - then your 60 squares across would equate to the world circumference (approximately - at least at equator) - so at ~24,000 miles it would make each of your squares 400 miles! If that feels too big, scale the world down to e.g. half or quarter size of earth for example
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I'm a relatively new dm (about a year and a half of experience), and my last 2 campaigns ended because the world was too inconsistent within itself.
After a short break, I decided to plan out my world a bit more before starting, not fully obviously (because id like to play this millennia lol).
Anyways, I've been working on a map (just a general idea of where the continents are), and made a grid to go over it, but I'm not sure how much each square should be worth (in size).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not sure we can help here without a bit more detail - I gather they are continents, but that really doesn't narrow it down!
Pick an island and give an estimate of how big you want it to be - the cluster of small islands in the middle could be akin to small islands off the coast (1-4 miles long, making a square about 10 miles) or they could be the size of the UK (about 1000 miles up and 250 across), making a square 2-3k miles across!
Once you've said "I want this island to be about as big as X", you can extrapolate it from there. I made this mistake when I made my map; I drew a city which was 10 miles across, then drew the rest of the map, then realise that, to scale, the city would have been about 1000 miles across! so I had to redraw (hand drawn on paper).
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I tend to not use grids on world scale or overview maps - but rather just a size scale in one corner of the map. Looking at the group of continents that the map shows one of your squares could be anything from 1 x1 mile to 100x100 miles.
However, it does look like you have some really nice details with archipelago like structures at the coast lines.
You could use a rule of thumb - e.g. if this is all the continents and you want to make something compatible to earth in scale - then your 60 squares across would equate to the world circumference (approximately - at least at equator) - so at ~24,000 miles it would make each of your squares 400 miles! If that feels too big, scale the world down to e.g. half or quarter size of earth for example
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