How to design the PERFECT map... 

Drew: why would anyone wanna live in this city it’s so cramped The city: rent/35$ Drew: IM MOVING IN

there is a small village in Poland it’s called „Mała wieś przy drodze” it translates to „Small village next to a road”

When I was a kid I used to draw fictional country’s on a piece of paper and make them battle 🤣🤣🤣

Actually Drew, people make these fantasy maps either for like you said D&D but they also use them for writing their own fantasy stories in that world. And some people like me, just imagine wars and world events on those maps

1:20, They were near impossible to take. Proper castles were nearly indestructible to most weaponry at the time. Invaders would have to either starve them out or have someone working for them on the inside to let them in.

1:20 that's why you had sieges that lasted years sometimes.

8:11, wait, are you telling me drew went to college? I thought he was taking too much crack to enter.

“D and D is a big reason, right?“ Fantasy Authors: 👁👄👁

THANK YOU FOR VALIDATING MY OBSESSIONS WITH MAPS, DATA, AND GEOGRAPHY!

There are dates above the castles

HOW TO TAKE A CASTLE YOUR GUIDE FOR A EASY PATH TO VICTORY: 1. surround the castle with bulky men swords and shields 2. stand there and don't let anything go past you 3. they surrender or die from starvation

0:38 "It is unwise to keep two -infinity stones- tits so close together" Algeria: "What if I do anyway?!"

Drew: "If it's generic we can just get rid of this" Me: "Drew's generic get rid of him!"

‘Middelfart’ in Denmark doesnt mean ‘middle fart’ but something like ‘middle journey’ or ‘middle trip’ refering to the crossing from Fin to Jutland

When I was younger, whenever I was in a bus I would take pencil and just draw circles and when the bus would shake, for example at a speed breaker, it would create jagged lines and it would look like a country. I would then divide it into states, make terrain and make stuff in cities.

Chaparral is basically a desert but with lots of living shrubs, bushes and trees. Honestly looks beautiful

Castles were indeed very hard to take fightng so it was very uncommon that someone actually tried to do it. The usual way to take a castle was deny all supplies and wait until people inside the castle was hungry enough to surrender but that doesn't fit very well on movies.

There's a village in Sweden called Ni**a but the Swedish word

8:20 I honestly thought it said skin tones and I didn't even question it

12:17 the abbreviation used for Georgia makes me uncomfortable

8:12 me too agh those peopel don't understand what maps are or what we do ....it was so frustrating and also embarrassing....😑

And I thought I was the only person. when I was in 5th grade, I had a bigger table than normal because I had a growth spurt. and on my table, I also saw continents, oceans, and island. I would also draw countries and kingdoms, and even drew the weather. But also, at 6:27, the same thing is happening with my phone

10:05 we have those in serbia too, i have steped on one and it kinda feels like when you step on a trampoline. Also im pretty sure its just debree from the lake building up and grass and trees start growing at some point.

3:52 this should be his slogan

1:20, you had trebuchets and catapults, though usually what besiegers would do is to dig tunnels underneath the castle walls and then remove the supports or, later on after gunpowder became a thing, detonate explosives, which would destroy the foundation and cause a section of wall to collapse.

This is one of the best subreddits out there.

0:50 that is called a motte and Bailey castle, believe it or not, it was very effective and could be made within a few days. The major weakness is that if one single fire arrow were to hit it, it would go up in flames, unless they built it with stone. The main watchtower was the motte and the small village was the Bailey. The Motte would also act as a keep and would be protected as it is up the hill. Most attackers would start at the Bailey and pillage it before heading to the Motte but as you can see, the steep staircase was there, this is where the defenders had a tactic they would throw down an oily sticky substance (I’m not sure what it was exactly maybe tar) which would either prevent the attackers from climbing up or stick them in place. He defenders would then rain down arrows onto the attackers! This was super effective but the stone version was more expensive so most villages had a simple wooden one, which lead to fires

8:35 by the volcano in libya

About minecraft, there's a group called BTE buliding earth in 1:1 scale

2:56 bruh it looks like they are dabbing

I love how Djibouti is included on the map of “silly place names” 😂

Me a Worldbuilder and Cartographer: Finally, my time to shine.

"Sorry Boss, couldn't come into work today, my island didn't float to the shore this morning"

0:57 Every castle building simulator ever

Fun fact: if you are on an iPad or IPhone take a picture of a fictional or real map and select “markup” on the editing screen for the photo. This allows you to paint over your map from which point you can create nations, and make them battle

The thing about taking over castles is that you don't. You take the land around the castle and camp out till the castle occupants either starve to death or they surrender. If you're storming the castle walls then you better have have a darn good reason other than "the enemy is in there"

Drew watchs paint dry while having war flashbacks asmr.

Inside the walled city looks like the lower levels of corouscaunt and I love it

9:31 Every time u include Denmark I’m just like OMG OMG ITS MY HOME COUNTRY OMG HE INCLUDED IT 😅

0:20 I came back from swimming yesterday and the house that our friend's mom has, the walls are made off stucco too, I also got inspiration!

3:41 Dwight: “are you referring to alchemy?”

The picture in the thumbnail was in my resource booklet for my geography paper

Answering your question Drew, most of the time they didn't take the castle. They just stood outside with pointy sticks and didn't let the food come in. Usually this was followed with surrender after an amount of time. If not, the attackers might get antsy and do a cheeky little attack on the castle. Which is either starving because the defenders are stubborn, so they won't fight very well. Or you're a bad attacker and you let food come in the back, so they will be at full strength (Or they have a garden in there. I am unsure of how common this was, but logic dictates it must have happened at least once). And yes it was hell to take, if the designer was good, and the lord of the Keep has a lot of dosh.

0:36 Shame Finnish places arent on list. Long time ago Sweden started force integrating Finland to empire and Swedish officials walked around Finnsh towns doing mapping and they asked place names from locals. We hated Sweden so pissed of farmers gave some insane place names to the officials, and the names exists to this day.

Chaparral is like the most common biome in California, part of the reason the place won't stop burning (dry shrubs and trees).

I wish I knew about this when i was younger, because I would've bloody loved it!!

9:54 Tectonic plates in a nutshell

2:02 In chechia, Stan = Tent

Drew: talks bad about the walled city Walled City Rent: HK$35 (~$4.50 USD today) Drew: "Im on my way"

Norway with 10 lines: Ok kinda similar South Africa with 10 lines: P O T A T O

8:44 Breaking News Sahara now to be found in the Ivory Coast😳🥵

2:26 OMG someone put that in a museum and make a game whit it

“I don’t want to ruin the design” I would love to see the castle crumble

0:13 IM NOT THE ONLY ONE?

Childhood map making! Jeez deep thoughts bro. And legos and you got every story made in last twenty years.

3:00 the sleeping warrior in Scotland is similar.

"Unless rhe volcano. Explodes" Sounds like pompeii,

Make a goddam mapping video already, about countryball mappers! Pls

Me who lives 10 mins away from one of those city/town names I prefer to see the funny side to it

Fun fact, the "city state" of Lesotho is only slightly smaller than Belgium.

Drew make a public discord since your fans love you

This isn’t for DND specifically, it’s for worldbuilding in general. I love worldbuilding, but my maps are usually awful.

I make a lot of fictional worlds that eventually get consumed by our world. "This area is the France-equivalent, that's the America-equivalent which owns the Hawaii-equivalent" and then I draw the map and it either looks horrible or basically is just an already existing country or region

1:48 this map jsut shows antarctica as the highest point of the sunken world of pangea and atlantist cahnge my mind

"casltes must have been hard to bust through" Yeah I wonder why they used them if it made it so hard for their enemies to break in

10:20 they have one of these in the Telus World of science Edmonton.

10:13 reminds me a bit of CS Lewis' Perelandra.

Pleeease do r/imaginary maps it was so cool! :)

I'd pay to have drew attempt worldbuilding

Ozymandias is from Ninjago. Few episodes have taken place there.

3:00 is that mountain dabbing?

The chaparral is the place where you can find devils.

I have been drawing maps for my whole life and none of them are this beautiful lmao

1:18, Knights: Well yes but actually yes

can confirm "muff" is a real place and there are equally funny place names. just go on Google maps and zoom in at the invisible border between Derry-Londonderry and Donegal _(gotta be careful when it comes to the island of ireland's geography)_

00:17 I used to do the same thing.

I'm glad I'm the only one who used to imagine continents on my walls

There is a place in Yorkshire called slack bottom aswell

Do we get to see a reproduction of this made by Drew?

12:20 I've become obsessed with these.

Bruh, I would 100% watch a series where you design fantasy continents, dungeons and other shiz.

The 2 Twatts are in Orkney (the bottom one) And My home islands of Shetland (the top one)

drew needs to send the links for these

2:10 they found the eagle eating the snake while escaping the Atzcapatzalco people after they sacrificed the kings wife; who was believed to be the reincarnation of Huitzchilapotli; the Aztec god of war. So they settled the city Tenochtitlan. Tenochitlan was built by Chinampas; mud and silt from the bottom of the lake, the temples were built of limestone because it was not too heavy. The people of Atzcapatzalco charged the Aztecs heavy taxes due to the reasson of them settling in ‘their lake’. The people of Texcoco, and another tribe helped overthrow The Atzcapatazalcoans, by forming a triple alliance/ the Aztec Empire.

1:25 When he forgot about siege weapons

7:56 oh someone made the map D: i thought the map just appeared randomly

Stan is derived from the Sanskrit/Urdu/Hindi word staan meaning place/land. So if you make a place called stanistan it will be called literally land of lands

The thumbnail was the diagram for my gcse final paper for geography

5:11 rigging is the turn for ropes, chains and wires on a ship that go from the nose of the forecastle deck to the rear of the poop deck (no im not joking about the name of that there it’s actually called a poop deck) and it would go via the masts so on a twin-mast sailing ship it would go forecastle-forward mast-aft mast-poop deck in the early 20th century and late 19th they introduced the marconi system which operates using morse code and 1 or more high points for the transmitter and wires running along the length of the ship from 1 high point to another most ships had 4 of these running from one mast to the other these wires were the receivers altho now they use radio so you don’t see them on ships anymore

i actively do this, but with a minecraft world map.

A tundra is a cold life lise land ( btw you can find the tundra in Canada )

That Arcade at the end was build to mimic the Kowloon Walled City. It's not actually in there

2:11 reminds me of the imperial city in elder scrolls oblivion

I guess I'll be the weirdest of the weirdos here... Every now and then, when my imagination is active, sometimes when I take a leak I'll look in the toilet, longer than most people would, and I would watch the pee fizz form continents and islands until all the bubbles popped. I hope I made everyone feel a little less weird by confessing that. Don't make fun of me. 🤭😂

I also have probroms with seeing map everywhere

13:08 "map of Scandinavia" but includes finland

Drew's new secret channel is very ÜWÜ see what I mean DruuWu Finally another channel..

9:55 here in Argentina we have that too, we named it "El ojo", "the eye", it's in the north of Buenos Aires

I have popcorn cilling and walls and i see them as ilands

1:12 *facepalm that's a star fort!!