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Have you ever dreamed about creating a Google Maps style map of your campaign world? My friend and fellow RPG blogger Zakharov Sawyer recently told me about mashupforge, a new service that allows you to do just that. You can even add markers with descriptions about the various places on the map. This can be a very handy tool, especially when you use a laptop or tablet PC at the game table. Below you see a map created by Zak:

Plane of Sylvigoth
If you want to check out the map in all its interactive glory, follow this link. Mashupforge is currently in beta, and they’ll probably add more features in the future but if you look for an easy and free way to turn your campaign map into an interactive map in the style of Google Maps, mashupforge is definitely worth a look.
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Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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Zak

The maps are fully embed-capable as well, via an iFrame. You can see what I mean via my personal wiki (VERY MUCH WORK IN PROGRESS) here: http://wiki.zd10.net/Sylvigoth
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Zak

Here’s another example of what you could use it for: http://mashupforge.com/193/OmIcg6txmBfSaxAvUXDv9mCe4lkRP3
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Rollespræll!

What a wonderful find! I am definitely going to find a way to use that to flesh out the world map for our campaign.
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steamcrow

Thanks for sharing this, I’ve always wanted to use Google maps for my campaign, but it was always pretty technical. This, this I can handle!
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