Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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I sat down to create a cartoony map for my homebrew game, and it leveled up my campaign 1000%!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:28 - Why Not a Hex Map?
08:10 - Coming Up With Points of Interest
12:47 - Drawing the Map
17:31 - The Map is Already Doing Its Job
23:50 - How This Helps My Campaign
30:42 - Using This Map on WorldAnvil
32:22 - Outro

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