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Kain Darkwind wrote:
How would you go about creating such a thing? If it were possible, I would gladly do it, and if it were easy and legal, I would gladly share it. I just have zero idea how to do such a thing.

One can get one's scanner and scan the maps and art assets for one's home game, which is probably a copyright violation, since Paizo did not grant permission to photocopy for personal use, as it did with the Dungeon supplements posted to the website. (Mind you, for a home game, where one is not going to distribute such a scanned image, I personally feel that one would have the *moral* high ground, at least. I'm no lawyer, so I don't know if this counts as fair use.)

Paizo had the advantage of having the original art and maps, so they were able to provide alternate map versions for PCs that did not expose secret information for the DM's eyes only in their supplements. The home user would need to take their scanned images and edit them in some way, which takes time, but can be rewarding. (My favorite image manipulation software is theGIMP, which is both free and open-source. When I changed Skald from a feytouched to a fetchling in my adaptation of the Savage Tide adventure path, I got to learn some new tricks with the program so I could show my players an image of a fetchling re-imagining of Skald.)

In short, it's not easy, but it can be fun, and it's not legal to distribute anything. (without explicit permission of probably both Wizards and Paizo, because while Wizards holds the license, Paizo probably still holds the copyright)