Skirmisher Publishing LLC is proud to announce the release of a Mediterranean Campaign Map that depicts the islands within and lands surrounding the sprawling body of water! It is provided as a high-resolution JPEG that can be printed out in any standard paper size, and is suitable for use with any fantasy or alternate-history games set in this area, including the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting. It was created by acclaimed fantasy artist/cartographer Francesca Baerald.
The Mediterranean Campaign Map is available for $4.99 USD as a download through online venues that include DriveThruRPG, RPGNow, and Wargame Vault. Prints of it in multiple sizes can also be ordered through the Zazzle retail site.
This map is bounded by the Black Sea and central Europe in the north, the Persian Gulf in the east, North Africa in the south, and the Pillars of Herakles and the Atlantic Ocean in the west. States represented on the map, both with political boundaries and their national symbols, include Aigyptos, Amazonia, the Tetrarchy of Anatolia, Attica and the citystate of Athens, Çatalhöyük, Gades the City of the Dead, the Kingdom of Lydia, the Magocracy of Mesopotamia, the Greater Peloponnese, the Republic of Rhodes, the Republic of Rome, the Grand Redoubt of Trinacria, the Kingdom of Tyre, and the Syndicracy of Zueri.
The Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting is a system-free milieu that was developed as the playtest backdrop for games using the OGL/d20, Pathfinder, "Basic" Dungeons & Dragons and Labyrinth Lord retroclone, and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules. Its sourcebooks can be used either individually or in conjunction with one another, and include Kos City, Kos Island, Lands Beyond Kos, Lives of Kos, and Encounters. Affiliated publications include the swords-and-sorcery novel Swords of Kos: Necropolis and the fiction anthology Swords of Kos: Hekaton, as well as the Heroes and Monsters of the Necropolis Cardstock Characters miniatures. This campaign setting is fully supported with additional fiction and free bonus material by d-Infinity Online gaming magazine.
