Michael Hopcroft Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 I've often thought of the proto-continent of Pangea, which existed some 175 million years ago before the continental drift tore it to pieces, as a nice piece of geography to have for a sweeping fantasy campaign world. An actual campaign would, of course, only cover a tiny fraction of the enormous landmass, but all that space and all those inland seas have some appeal. I've seen a few speculative maps of Pangea online, but nothing that is especially helpful in terms of printing out portions and placing RPG stuff on it. So I'm wondering whether there is such an animal out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea That is a flipping brilliant idea. Familiar, yet different. Are you thinking of running this in an "alternate" timeline or going with the whole Pre-historic civilization eventually wiped from existance angle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea I'ts a great idea! But I do doubt that Pangaea had all that many inland seas -- I imagine it was a bit like Africa, times ten -- the interior dry as a statue's tit and hotter than a demon's jockstrap*. Or Asia, for that matter, with the Taklamakan and all the other deserts. * = Stolen from Terry Pratchett's The Last Continent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Desmarais Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea I've often thought of the proto-continent of Pangea, which existed some 175 million years ago before the continental drift tore it to pieces, as a nice piece of geography to have for a sweeping fantasy campaign world. An actual campaign would, of course, only cover a tiny fraction of the enormous landmass, but all that space and all those inland seas have some appeal. I've seen a few speculative maps of Pangea online, but nothing that is especially helpful in terms of printing out portions and placing RPG stuff on it. So I'm wondering whether there is such an animal out there. I like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea I'm not sure if future Pangaea is what we're looking for here, though it is pretty fascinating. Should crosspost that to tkdguy's sword & planet thread over in Star Hero. I found this map and this map using images.google.com, but even so you might have to extrapolate your own version. The hard part is that I don't think any of these maps are going to show any terrain types beyond major mountain ranges and maybe river basins--vegetation, swamps, lakes, and so on might just not show up in the geological record, certainly not with any detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea I like this one, but I can't figure out how to manipulate the "layers" they speak of. http://www.umm.maine.edu/Pangaea.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Desmarais Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea I like this one, but I can't figure out how to manipulate the "layers" they speak of. http://www.umm.maine.edu/Pangaea.html Download the PDF (link on the page you referenced). Open PDF in a recent version of the Acrobat Reader. Go to the View Menu, choose Navigation Panels, and then Layers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Core-fire Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea I always thought about this idea too but frankly I like Gondwana and Laurasia as a better candidate. More coast line I guess and more fantastical I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Divago Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 Re: Usable maps of Pangea not a usable map, but i found a website (in italian) where they are talking about ucronic and utopic settings, including a "what could happen if humanity evolved into pangea"? most important, they said pangea was not a continuous continent, but a mass of fused contnents. btw, the website is this, but as i said is in italian. hope it could help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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