The other version of Driftport is a pretty nice place. This is the version for DMs who imagine it as a place where the residents might drink turpentine, engage in cannibalism and sacrifice outsiders to an ancient abomination lurking deep beneath the waves. Or it can just be the night version, I suppose. Your call.
Drawing this gave me an idea for a map of another large, seafaring settlement and I wanted to get your opinions. Imagine a ship, like a galleon or a ship of the line, but much bigger. Bigger than any sailing ship ever built. 400′ (130m) long and 140′ (45m) across the beam. Eight masts, thirty sails. But this isn’t just a ship, it’s a town with hundreds of residents. Across the ship’s 5-6 full decks, there are shops, craftsmen, a marketplace, a tavern, an inn, a temple, gardens, a library, a mill and a lot more. There are cabins for the middle class, luxury apartments for the rich and hammocks for the poor. This is a ship you could get lost in. It could be a community of traders, explorers, pirates or wanderers.
I don’t know what the biggest ship map ever drawn is, but I’m fairly sure this would be larger by an order of magnitude. It would probably take around a month to draw and color. Anyway, is that something you’d be interested in?
Those measurements and the mast count line up suspiciously close to a certain ship from China.
🙂 I’m waiting
It seems to be a popular idea so far, so I’ll probably end up drawing it once Tir Thelandira is done.
It’s almost like the Chinese treasure ship of admiral Zheng He. They were roughly 100m(330ft) long
Yep, it’ll be around the same size, although I don’t think there will be much similarity beyond that.
makes me think of that one ship in old spelljammer lore ”the crimson caravan”
Really a great idea
I’m imagining the boat being like the one from the 2007 Noah’s ark movie. It’s a WEIRD movie but the boat looked cool.
It might be around that size, but probably very different in design.