Pathfinder Chronicles: Second Darkness Map Folio

Okay... for some reason the Ctrl Click to select the map isn't actually working its just getting the real background...

Has anybody else had better luck with this...

Okay... for some reason the Ctrl Click to select the map isn't actually working its just getting the real background...

Has anybody else had better luck with this...

Do you mean in the PDF on your home machine? If so, it will not work in Adobe that is higher than v7 ... apparently they changed something about it. There have been a bunch of other threads on this, and it is possible to get a copy of Adobe 7, I just don't have it handy to link it for you.

Notsonoble wrote:

Okay... for some reason the Ctrl Click to select the map isn't actually working its just getting the real background...

Has anybody else had better luck with this...

Do you mean in the PDF on your home machine? If so, it will not work in Adobe that is higher than v7 ... apparently they changed something about it. There have been a bunch of other threads on this, and it is possible to get a copy of Adobe 7, I just don't have it handy to link it for you.

Actually it works with Adobe 8, It stoped working with Adobe 9.

YOu can still get 8 through Adobe web page Here

Gamer Girrl wrote:

Notsonoble wrote:

Okay... for some reason the Ctrl Click to select the map isn't actually working its just getting the real background...

Has anybody else had better luck with this...

Do you mean in the PDF on your home machine? If so, it will not work in Adobe that is higher than v7 ... apparently they changed something about it. There have been a bunch of other threads on this, and it is possible to get a copy of Adobe 7, I just don't have it handy to link it for you.

Actually it works with Adobe 8, It stoped working with Adobe 9.

YOu can still get 8 through Adobe web page Here

::chuckle:: That'll remind me to be careful answering tech questions when I'm sleepy :)

Particularly useless is the giant poster map of Zirnakaynin. I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with it. It has no numbered locations on it, and it's not made at a scale where you could use it with minis ... I honestly can't figure out what its purpose is.

... And finally... these maps are useful to GMs who aren't playing the adventure path. A GM can use any of the maps in a map folio as locations in his own campaign. Zirnakaynin can easily serve as a drow city in any world... or any race's city for that matter.

Right.

I was on the fence about subscribing to Chronicles for a long time due to stuff like this, since I have a home campaign that predates Golarion by about 4 years and I won't be shifting it over.

But then I realized how awesome it would be to have all this material that I can just drop in place, solving the problem of generating artwork for my cities.

I just have to ignore the title printed onto the map :)

I plan to run the SD when it wil eventually be translated in french...

I was then wondering if the map folio pdf is worth buying to generate the maps required to play with a VTT like MapTool?

The point is the resolution of the pdf maps gotten with CTRL+click. Is it high enough to zoom at combat distance?

I grabed the pdf version of the first adventure from a friend who subscribed in english and it appears that the maps like "Foamrunner at Dock" and "Water tunnels" are not large enough to look pretty as they should at encounter zoom.

Is it better in the map folio?

I grabed the pdf version of the first adventure from a friend who subscribed in english and it appears that the maps like "Foamrunner at Dock" and "Water tunnels" are not large enough to look pretty as they should at encounter zoom.

Is it better in the map folio?

No, the maps are the same size in the folio, except for the poster map of the drow city.

Brandon Gillespie wrote:

In addition to the Dark Elf city poster map will there be a poster map of Riddleport as well?

Sorry—no such map exists yet.

Just curious if it's "yet" yet? Or shall ever be? I searched the product line board for "Riddleport poster" and suchlike but didn't see one. My posterboard and yardstick are ready to start the gridding for a handmade Riddleport poster, but thought I'd do a quick check first to save many hours of copying. Any joy? We loved the Cauldron poster and got so much use out of it.

Vic Wertz wrote:

Brandon Gillespie wrote:

In addition to the Dark Elf city poster map will there be a poster map of Riddleport as well?

Sorry—no such map exists yet.

Just curious if it's "yet" yet? Or shall ever be? I searched the product line board for "Riddleport poster" and suchlike but didn't see one. My posterboard and yardstick are ready to start the gridding for a handmade Riddleport poster, but thought I'd do a quick check first to save many hours of copying. Any joy? We loved the Cauldron poster and got so much use out of it.

The map in the AP is still the largest, most detailed map of Riddleport we've done to date.

It can work as a poster to hang on the wall. I often did this with poster maps that came in boxed sets from TSR back in the day, but what can I say: I'm a nerd!

me too, right next my Olivia Newton John poster

The map in the AP is still the largest, most detailed map of Riddleport we've done to date.

Thanks for the response. I'll get to copyin'.

Would it be possible to get a "Single File" PDF of this product?

I wonder if they are starting to get the hint, that the product people want are encounter battle maps for figs for each AP?

I personally thought thats what the map folios were until I started reading the discussions about them. I was dumbfounded that the product was not what it obviously should be.

I can't speak for other people, but I have bought all of the map folios to date (although I prefer the ones starting with Kingmaker). Had they instead been miniature battle maps, I wouldn't have bought any of them.

So while there's certainly some that would have preferred such battle maps, there are also those who wouldn't have been interested if that was the product.

I can't speak for other people, but I have bought all of the map folios to date (although I prefer the ones starting with Kingmaker). Had they instead been miniature battle maps, I wouldn't have bought any of them.

So while there's certainly some that would have preferred such battle maps, there are also those who wouldn't have been interested if that was the product.

You can speak for me in this instance. :-)

I just wish I would have done a bit more research before buying this particular item. I wasn't aware that the maps were not scaled for miniatures. Severely disappointing. I will not be buying another map pack again.

FYI while still not scaled for minis, the map packs changed quite a bit. From Kingmaker on, you will find 3-4 Poster maps of important locations (cities, the countryside etc) instead of a reprint of the maps from the AP.