## The story behind this project As a DM, I'm hopelessly addicted to maps. The stories they tell, the games we play on them, just the pretty colors and shapes - I began to hoard them like a dragon hoards shiny treasure. Unfortunately my hoard quickly became unmanageable. I couldn't keep up with the rate at which I was acquiring maps, and it became really hard to find the right one for a session, as my maps folder reached sizes that couldn't even be reasonably processed by the software I was using. So it was always my goal to organize them in some way. I tried organizing them by folder, by artist, etc., but the amount of time it took to get through even 100 was exhausting. Forget about 100,000. And then, once they were "organized" in some manner, it was still really hard to see them all side-by-side to find the right one. Eventually I discovered Notion and began to organize my campaign notes in there, and I realized it could lay out images and tag them. And around that time, GPT4-Vision came out, and it could describe images, and even play Geoguessr. The key to organizing all these maps was in these two tools. So I used them to organize my huge, personal collection of maps, and it went so well, I thought hey, why not literally organize every map, ever? And thus the legend began... ✨ _**My hope is that this tool can also help you find your perfect map! Please support the artists of each map by upvoting the original post, or even subscribing via Patreon!**_ ✨ ## Instructions and Tips - [LegendLore](https://legendlore.notion.site/) updates with new maps at the top of every hour, and updates scores every 6 hours. - To speed up the search, apply at least one filter! It can be slow to load without it. Other views (seen in the tabs at the top of the filters) may also be faster - Sorts are VERY slow. By default, it's sorted by `Created ↓` (from newest to oldest). I recommend applying a filter before attempting to do any sorts. - Multi-tag searches will always be an OR search - ex. `Forest` OR `Fire`. This is an unfortunate limitation of Notion's site hosting, it allows advanced searches on the site's backend but not the public side. - `Two-Tag Filter` has been provided, to use it, filter by ONE tag, then scroll down to the secondary tag you are searching for. - If you're finding there are too many world maps in your results, try this: Under the `Tags` filter, there's an option to switch it to `Does Not Contain`. Try that with the `Regional/World` (and if that's not enough, `Town/City`) tags, that should get rid of most of the world maps! You can also filter by subreddit, I'd recommend `r/battlemaps` and `r/dungeondraft` to fully filter out world maps.