Eosin

I've been putting together a list of real places on Earth that seem to have been created by some aspiring fantasy writer. I'd like to know what everyone else has tucked away on their hard drives or bookmarked.
 
My List includes:
Museum of the Dead
Bone Cathedral
Wieliczka Salt Mines
The Gate To Hell
Crater Lake
Mirror of Heaven
 
The links go to my personal site but most of them were originally buried in wiki or on travel blogs somewhere else.
 
So, what cool fantastic sites do you know about?

I've been putting together a list of real places on Earth that seem to have been created by some aspiring fantasy writer. I'd like to know what everyone else has tucked away on their hard drives or bookmarked.
 
My List includes:
Museum of the Dead
Bone Cathedral
Wieliczka Salt Mines
The Gate To Hell
Crater Lake
Mirror of Heaven
 
The links go to my personal site but most of them were originally buried in wiki or on travel blogs somewhere else.
 
So, what cool fantastic sites do you know about?

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
As they would say on FIREFLY ... Shiney!
 
PDS

Here's one I don't think I've shared yet.
 
This the Nth Man. He's an escaped Viper Super Soldier experiment fighting the good fight. He's essentally a "human paragon" with some mid-level mental abilities. He kept the Viper color scheme to rub their nose in it, essentially.

Re: Things you do to acheive immersion
 
In one of my really old campaigns, I sat down with Palladiums Fantasy game book and wrote down all of the verbal components for spells based on the power words in that book. I then required the spell casters in the group to say those words and if they said them incorrectly I ruled the spell casting failed.
 
I also went through and photocopied all of their Circles of Power and would hand them out to the players if they made successful Circle Lore skill rolls.
 
All of this combined into folders the players would haul around that became similar to spell books with all of their pronunciation notes and photocopied spell circles and runes. It was really quite cool. But then, I had a lot more time in highschool.
 
Now I just draw maps and occaisionally find a funky font that I write cryptic notes with and print out to give to the players for translation. I still actively look for cool "primitive" music CD's to use as ambience for certain locations. Thus far, Thunder Drums has been the most used and favored for primitive tropical cultures.

Re: Things you do to acheive immersion
 
Nope. I'm too lazy.
 
Though, my Fantasy game is 4th Age Middle Earth (shameless plug)... There is a thread in this FORUM! Read and post!
 
So, I do use as many maps and pics from various sources that I can. The mood I try to reach is normally attempted through my method of describing the situation. But, as the game hasn't gone as well as I've liked, I probably should work up something else...

What kind of little touches to do you put into your Fantasy campaigns?
I often draw pictures of the magic items that the player characters under my GMing receive, as well as illustrations of the magic glyphs used by npc casters, particularly if it's a piece of the environment, like a room whose floor is one huge necromancy circle.
 
I also sometimes make unusual calendars and number systems. For example, the calendar I'm using now is a 10-month year, each month having 3 weeks of 10 days each. The number system I'm using is base-6, consisting of a simple line pattern which is rotated clockwise to count.
 
Does anybody else do stuff like this?

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
I was thinking the dragon was not clutching another moon, but rather a jewel or egg and just kept it really vague... the shape isn't important... but a dragon bigger than the moon is kinda interesting idea... and idea with its own gravity well.
 
The dam has broke. The multi-genre cover was actually done for a few days. And I've had my more usual commissions penciled but not finished. AFter putting the final touches on an oil commission (still drying, I'll post when its dry), I've had time to get back to finishing up the pile of private commissions.
 
UP first is SAdhana, the contest idea accepted by Death Tribble.. and I'm blanking on who actually submitted.
 

 
And then continuing with Global Guardians, The Fool, a member of the Tarot.

Re: "Neat" Pictures
 
Map of London. No idea of the time frame on this one, though it looks like an oldie. Larger version.
 
 

Just what in the bloody blue blazes are these?

Re: Crusader/Crusade and DC
 
Some real creeps in there - including Crusade.