Staying Alive on I-75

Quick plug here, back over the summer I tried out making a Travel Map for Free League’s upcoming 4th Edition of Twilight: 2000 and publishing it via the Free League Workshop in DrivethruRPG.

CENTKYTO is in the same style as the Poland and Swedish travel maps that come with the game, but it is focused on Central Kentucky in the U.S.A. I chose that location because it’s where I grew up, and most post-apocalyptic games revolve around the players playing in the ruins of their hometown.

Also while I don’t know if Free League will be publishing anything set in the states, I figured that this was probably an area that they were not thinking of doing anything for, so it was fair game.

I don’t have a gazetteer or anything to go with it, it is just a map. I figure it can work just as well for a WWIII campaign as it would for a Walking Dead-style zombie apocalypse campaign or a Battle: Los Angles-style alien invasion campaign.

I did include assets and instructions for using the map on Roll20 and Foundry VTTs, which is why it is a bit more expensive than some of the other Workshop maps out there.

CENTKYTO T2k Travelmap on DrivethruRPG

Alien RPG Locations

Here is my attempt to sort out the main regions in the Alien universe as detailed in Free League’s RPG. I felt like there was a need for a big picture political map, that didn’t get crowded with the names of systems or sectors.

Map of key regions mentioned so far and where they are located. (or my best guess)

And here is a zoomed out view, showing roughly some of the more distant locations, or at least the direction they lie.

…and here is a historical view of the map over time. (not canonical… its just my best guess.)

And here is a Wallpaper [1080x1920] just because…

Hyperborea

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I have been digging deep into the works of Clark Ashton Smith recently, especially his Hyperborean Cycle stories that have strong connections to the mythos of Lovecraft. They are darkly humorous stories of baroque lands and flawed heroes getting their comeuppance.

While Lovecraft came up with names for locations that emphasized their alien and weird natures, Smith was a poet by nature and so he found names for his doomed cities that had a lyrical style to them.

Anyway, the 1971 Ballantine collection has a rather nice map of this lost land that seemed worth scanning and cleaning up a bit, to have on hand when reading the stories.

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