Realms of En Derathil (LOTR Inspired Map Pack)

En Derathil is, obviously, heavily inspired by Middle Earth.

As we no doubt all do, I love Tolkien’s writing and the world he made, as well as the Peter Jackson movies. But, I’ve always felt that Middle Earth doesn’t work especially well for your average DnD or TTRPG campaign, not without a lot of modifications. The world of LotR is great exactly as it is, but magic works very differently there. It doesn’t mesh particularly well with the mechanics found in Daggerheart, for example. There HAVE been a few attempts to adapt LotR into a TTRPG game, some of them are even very good. But my intent here was to create a setting that worked with the mechanics of existing RPGs, rather than an RPG that fit the world of LotR, if that makes sense.

Layout wise, there’s some immediate obvious parallels to Middle Earth, but I think the longer you look at this map and setting, the more it diverges. I wanted it to feel inspired by LotR, without feeling like a cheap knock off. Hopefully I managed to walk that line.

This map was made entirely in Photoshop, across roughly 100 hours of work. Dimensions of the map are 5180 x 2680 pixels. No AI was used at any point to create this setting.

Here's everything that comes in this map pack:

1. En Derathil (Fully Labeled)
2. En Derathil (Kingdom Titles Only)
3. En Derathil (No Labels)
4. En Derathil (Blank)
5. En Derathil (Night) (Fully Labeled)
6. En Derathil (Night) (Kingdom Titles Only)
7. En Derathil (Night) (No Labels)
8. En Derathil (Night) (Blank)
9. En Derathil (Unseen Realm)