Satirical/Cartoon maps that are interesting

Go for the luncheon, stay for the menu.
from the R.M.S Queen Mary

Where is Stormbringer?

Not sure if this qualifies, but I love it, so I’ll post it anyway: Roman roads, London metro style…

And there’s also a zoomed in Italian version:

Source: https://sashat.me/2017/06/03/roman-roads/ which also has https://sashat.me/maps/

God I loved those books when I was younger!

I even picked up this game, “Elric”, on clearance a long time ago. Wasn’t a great game… it was strategy which didn’t really lend itself to the drama of the books.

Those are great and certainly qualify. For reference, here is the famous London Metro map:

And here is the Rome Metro map

Essentially it is just two intersecting lines. The locals explained that there no plans to expand the system, due to fear of digging into ancient Roman ruins.

Agreed. The Role Playing Game did a better job. Originally published by Chaosium.

Speaking of Fictional Maps made by Chaosium for Role Playing Game Settings based on established fiction…

Here There Be Dragons

Mapping the Ringworld

Whaaaa…!? Somebody made an RPG for the Ringwor… of course they did. I was never big into RGPs, but if I’d stumbled across that at the right age…

I like the disclaimers at the bottom, especially the shade thrown on Ringworld Engineers.

I wish I still had my copy of Ringworld. Niven’s early stuff was great.

https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15687.phtml

The World of Dorian Hawkmoon

I’m just going to assume that is terrible.

Another map from a book made into an RPG that I didn’t know about:

https://i.imgur.com/SS6E6zi.gif

Yeah yeah. Objects on the interwebs may appear smaller…
Fixed.

Ponderosa-ception. Reminds me of these maps:

Made by these guys and others.

I keep waiting for it to burn through.

From TSR’s Expert D & D Set ™

The Isle of Dread

I ran that for my players last year! It went pretty well, no one died and came back as a zombie.

That reminds me of Mockman’s module maps, also available as prints on his website.