Map - edit: sorry, the map seems to have been resized and the writing is hard to make out, but as a rough map you don't really lose much from it.
I have all the locations I need for the adventures I have planned. Now I just want to know if there should be more there to flesh it out a bit, then i'll have a decent copy drawn up. It is also very much a points of light, no borders are on the map because each town or city only controls land in 10s of miles around it, never close enough to cause issues (until the adverntuing starts...)
Basic desciption of the region:
Jura el'Saphi is the regions only real city, located on the coast at the mouth of the Killaman River. Mainly inhabited by Dragonborn and Eladirin and linked to a full Eladrin city in the feywild by portals which only open for part of the day. Various small villages surround and look to the cities army for protection.
The Lothar Alliance consists of several towns of >10,000 and many villages around the east end of the region. Northern towns also have high goblinoid populations. Trade roads in/out of the region all pass through towns under Alliance control.
Dunvarion is your typical dwarven mine/fortress near the Killaman river, just inside the Giantsreach Mountains. Trade up and down river, usually food for metals.
The Malacia Sea is calm and very few storms occur making it an excellent way to transport goods in and out of the region.
Lantherian Highlands are home to clans of humans who build few villages and even fewer towns. Lots of hills, few roads, lots of opportunity for monsters to roam out of the mountains and travel great distances without running into any civilisation.
Mornwood is home to elven tribes and is your standard primeval forest. Elves trade animal skins and lumbar for manufactured goods from Jura.
What's the terrain type? It looks like you only have the one forest at the base of what I assume are mountains. Is the white area just flatlands? I'd find a RW map of a similar location and see how plant-life is distributed. If the waters are calm, then the bay isn't as wind-blasted as I thought on first glance (before going over you post again). I'm no expert, but I think that would call for somewhat rocky, small beaches with some kind of forest not 50 yards up.
"Mornwood" (please say you don't mean "morning wood" :embarrass :D ) where the elves trade animal skins and "lumbar"? Lower back supports? Just kidding. I bet you mean lumber. Dot a few elven villages in there. Based on your scale, you're dealing with a really large area.
And check out AutoREALM for map-making when you go to fine-tune the map. I d'loaded it because Campaign Cartographer is too expensive for me.
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As a rule of thumb, as a DM I like to have about 3 or 4 "quests" (at least) for every location my PCs visit. I do this because as a PCI like locations that have at least 3 or 4 "quests." It gets boring if a place is shallow and essentially exists just for the players to tromp through once.
Will have a look some RW maps to make the geography more realistic.
It is quite a large scale map so I have avoided drawing all the little villages that tend to form around large towns or cities. If I need to I can add them in smaller scale maps of specific areas.
I have adventures planned to take the party all the way through Heroic tier and they are going to be mostly based in just 3 general locations, assuming the storyline survives PC contact. If need be I can add new locations and adventure plots as required.
In the late paragon levels the plot comes back to revisit some places, and explore a few new ones. In between the party will be off in the feywild... (again, assuming the plot survives that far).
Most of the map is just there to explain political issues and give places for the PC to have come from...