One of the many passions I've developed throughout my life is fantasy cartography. When writing a story and worrying about scale, distance, and perspective, nothing aids the author more than a well-placed map. The map makes everything feel more - authentic, in a way. Here is a map that I made for a roleplaying game that I helped to oversee, just a few months ago.
yuuup, i was once quite the map-maker. i think i had more maps than stories, hahah. map-making became a form of procrastination for me, and i always drew them out by hand. i probably still have one or two, scanned and uploaded to some file hosting website.
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4228/sarnamap.jpg
It was done 100% in Adobe Photoshop CS5.1, which is personally my favorite tool when it comes to any storybook illustration.
Have any of you made any maps for your RPGs, stories, etc.?