Raise and rule an entire kingdom in the Kingmaker Adventure Path. From early explorations and cartographic cataloguing of the region, to forays into the deadliest depths of an ancient wilderness, the Kingmaker Poster Map Folio provides the maps for an entire epic campaign.
Within this map folio, you’ll find six huge, 4-panel poster maps crucial to the Kingmaker Adventure Path—the mysterious village of Varnhold, the oppressed city of Pitax, and four linked maps that present the infamous Stolen Lands in their entirety. Even if you aren’t running the Kingmaker Adventure Path, the maps inside can serve any campaign as new wildernesses regions, villages, or cities for any RPG campaign. Your new kingdom waits within!
I'm posting my first-ever review of a Paizo product to gush about how useful this product is. I've never been particularly impressed with the previous map folios, as they just seemed to be the maps copied from the adventures all in one place. The Rise of the Runelords map folio had a poster map of Sandpoint, which was valuable because the characters returned there many times (unlike the included map of Fort Rannick, say, which was the location for a few encounters, and the PCs never thought about it again).
Here, you get four poster maps which, laid end-to-end, provide a player map of the entire setting of the Kingmaker campaign and the basis for the PCs' kingdom. I taped the four maps together and laminated it, and it will serve as the centerpiece of the gaming table for the entire campaign. The PCs can write down locations they hear about, the changing borders of their kingdom, new towns, etc., etc. This mega-map will be useful throughout the entire campaign, and I can't imagine running Kingmaker without it.
I don't know whether the other two poster maps will be useful for much other than "here's where you are for the next couple of encounters," but they're basically freebies, as far as I'm concerned: the four-poster Stolen Lands map alone was worth the price of this product.
I used to loathe Paizo map folios with a burning passion, temporarily cancelling my subscription every time one of those turned up on the horizon. Speaking bluntly, the old folios were mostly useless, except for a map or two.
So naturally I was curious as to how will the New, Improved and Revamped folio format turn out. The verdict: it's good. We get 4 hex maps of the Kingmaker area - rather cruciual for the AP, given it's nature. We also get 2 maps of settlements: Varnhold and Pitax.
Quality is great, as usual. Rob is a maestro of mapmapking and there's no match for his craft.
What knocks a peg off the score ? There really should be a map of Drelev here.
Apart from that, it's good that folios are finally useful. Thanks for listening to our crtique, Paizo !
