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I cant wait for the PDF to be released... I'm just hopping the watermark doesn't mess with the layout/look on my VTT (Maptools)
I'd buy the hard copy but it would run the look of my almost completed RPG room/table setup I have.
Roll on the 15th!
The watermark is very small in comparison to the map itself. It only shows up on the map in 4 locations, two of which do cross place names, but nothorribly.
So set the pdf size to 50%, copy the area you are playing in with snip tool import to Hexographer at 20% opacity and you get a 12 mile to the hex map of anywhere you want..Kingmaker anywhere in Avistan or Garund
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Just got my paper copy today - very nice. LOTS of details.
What I'd love to see in the future are more maps of the same scale and level of detail continuing off to the east, right where this one left off. That way I could join them with tape or something and just go all the way to the next ocean. I know Avistan is currently the "center" of the world, but with characters from the River Kingdom, Taldan and Qadira, I'm likely to head east and run out of map before before I go to the far west.
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Just got my paper copy today - very nice. LOTS of details.
The same for me, i got it at work today and could'nt resist opening it up to see how large it was.
My office is staffed full of chemical, structural and electrical engineers and they had the gall to call me a geek today...engineers? calling a gamer a geek? puhlease....
The map was awesome. great job.
I assembled the map and put it up last night. It is freaking huge! very cool. ;)
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I just received this today and was delighted by the detail and quality of the product. It is quite well-designed and well-worth the wait.
One thing caught my eye, however: I noticed certain areas are much better defined than others. Some of these are to be expected (such as Varisia) as there's been a lot of material written about these areas.
Others, such as Ustalav, were a bit more of a surprise. With relatively little yet published about this nation (outside of Prince of Wolves and Carrion Hill), there sure is a lot developed. Now, I suspect this is because the upcoming Carrion Crown AP has been laid out in a fair amount of detail, and so a number of adventure sites have already been defined.
But then, look at Mediogalti Island. There's quite a bit more defined there than what I initially thought, which leaves me wondering if there's future products planned there. We received hints earlier today from James, who mentions that the Cyclopes had an empire there, and they've got "big plans" for the fallen Cyclopes nations.
There's also been mention on these boards about how the next couple years have been pretty well locked-down for AP schedules.
So, how far ahead of the curve is the Inner Sea Map Folio? How many locations are from as-yet unpublished products (outside of the Inner Sea Primer)? Also, as more locations continue to get added from Campaign Setting books, modules, and APs I imagine this product will become increasingly out of date. Can we look forward to an update to the product every few years?
Personally, I'd love to see an update EVERY year, but I imagine that's unfeasible.
Also, I was sad to see that the Realm of the Mammoth Lords is so ill-defined on the map. I suspect that means there's no near-future plans for fur-clad, megafauna-riding barbarian clans clashing with the hordes of hell, the witch-children of Baba Yaga, and the soul-less Iron Legions of Numeria. Which is a shame, as that pretty much sounds like the greatest campaign ever, doesn't it?
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I brought my PDF copy last night and I am very happy with it.
Although I have a busy week I plan to take the map of River Kingdom and import it into my game maps (Maptools) for my campaign, The map is very well done and is of such good quality that if you don't buy it, your friends will give you a -1 to Moxy!
Anyway, Good work team!
regards
Manglash (NZ)
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One thing caught my eye, however: I noticed certain areas are much better defined than others. Some of these are to be expected (such as Varisia) as there's been a lot of material written about these areas.
The density of tags in a region is an excellent indicator of several things. A region with a lot of tags probably has one or more of the following features:
a) There's been an adventure path set there.
b) It got a four-page entry plus a regional map in the Campaign Setting Hardcover.
c) It's been the feature of a gazetteer book.
In the case of Ustalav, as with Varisia and Katapesh, all three of these qualify (even though the Ustalav books aren't yet out...).
In any case, the locations for the map include things up through our current releases. And by "current releases," I mean anything and everything we were working on or had map turnovers for up until the day we shipped the map to the printer.
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the locations for the map include things up through our current releases. And by "current releases," I mean anything and everything we were working on or had map turnovers for up until the day we shipped the map to the printer.
Oh yeah? So were did Jorgenfist disappear to? ;-P
That was a joke BTW...
I realize that is impossible to remember every little detail...
-That One Digitalelf Fellow-
Does the pdf have this as one big map or as 4 maps?
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I'm a little confused. I just looked at my subscriptions and it shows that I'm subscribed to the Campaign Setting line. This is stated as being part of the Campaign line yet the shipment I just received yesterday included only Serpent's Skull #6, and the Village Square flip mat — the same being reflected in my last shipping notice from Feb 4.
When I view my subscriptions, it shows my current Campaign product as Lost Cities of Golarion, and the next product as the Inner Sea World Guide. Did I get skipped or something?
For those interested.
The pdf shows four pages of the map with labels, but when extracted (with SomePDF or other program) there will be four identical unlabeled full size maps 6696x10080 pixels, including the top and bottom border. (i.e. you don't have to put the quadrants together.)
No hexes.
@Thraug, subscribing to the Campaign Settings line will get you the pdf for free. Just buying the paper version as a separate purchase will not.
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the locations for the map include things up through our current releases. And by "current releases," I mean anything and everything we were working on or had map turnovers for up until the day we shipped the map to the printer.Oh yeah? So were did Jorgenfist disappear to? ;-P
That was a joke BTW...
I realize that is impossible to remember every little detail...
-That One Digitalelf Fellow-
Thanks for adding the "that was a joke BPW" because if you hadn't, that would have depressed the hell out of me.
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I'm a little confused. I just looked at my subscriptions and it shows that I'm subscribed to the Campaign Setting line. This is stated as being part of the Campaign line yet the shipment I just received yesterday included only Serpent's Skull #6, and the Village Square flip mat — the same being reflected in my last shipping notice from Feb 4.
When I view my subscriptions, it shows my current Campaign product as Lost Cities of Golarion, and the next product as the Inner Sea World Guide. Did I get skipped or something?
Make sure to post in the Customer Service thread and remember that we have Monday off for the President's Day holiday, so nobody will be able to get back to you until Tuesday at the earliest.
-Lisa
Does the map have a hex overlay, possibly on the pdf version?
Also, does buying the tree version get you the pdf version for free?
As I said above it is fairly easy to produce maps in the kingmaker style using Hexographer and the P|DF..I love this product can't wait for the dead tree version to arrive with me.
My friend and I opened this up the other day and were sad that we don't play in Golarion. Maybe I'll kill their Scarred Lands characters so we can start over.
On an entirely different note, we were both "influenced", shall we say, when we noticed that the map scale was measured in units of...wait for it...420 miles! The plot thickens!
My friend and I opened this up the other day and were sad that we don't play in Golarion. Maybe I'll kill their Scarred Lands characters so we can start over.
On an entirely different note, we were both "influenced", shall we say, when we noticed that the map scale was measured in units of...wait for it...420 miles! The plot thickens!
Just do what we did, and start them on an AP "just to try it out"....
I ran a 5+ year Scarred Lands game, and I at first tried to shoehorn the Paizo APs into a Scarred Lands setting (albeit far in the future), then just gave up and started running them in Golarion. They don't seem to mind!
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I recently did some investigation into getting these onto my gaming room wall. Turns out to be prohibitively expensive to get a frame this size custom made (in the region of hundreds of dollars).
My solution was 4 * $10 frames from target. Some pictures below of the final result. Total cost, including the map-pack less than $60.
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I recently did some investigation into getting these onto my gaming room wall. Turns out to be prohibitively expensive to get a frame this size custom made (in the region of hundreds of dollars).
My solution was 4 * $10 frames from target. Some pictures below of the final result. Total cost, including the map-pack less than $60.
Pretty nice!
I recently did some investigation into getting these onto my gaming room wall. Turns out to be prohibitively expensive to get a frame this size custom made (in the region of hundreds of dollars).
My solution was 4 * $10 frames from target. Some pictures below of the final result. Total cost, including the map-pack less than $60.
Are those Dragonlance modules framed on your wall?
If I were to frame my old adventures, it'd be more like wallpaper than framed art!
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I recently did some investigation into getting these onto my gaming room wall. Turns out to be prohibitively expensive to get a frame this size custom made (in the region of hundreds of dollars).
My solution was 4 * $10 frames from target. Some pictures below of the final result. Total cost, including the map-pack less than $60.
Wow! That looks great!
I recently did some investigation into getting these onto my gaming room wall. Turns out to be prohibitively expensive to get a frame this size custom made (in the region of hundreds of dollars).
My solution was 4 * $10 frames from target. Some pictures below of the final result. Total cost, including the map-pack less than $60.
Wow! That looks great!
Agreed! This is exactly what I will be doing for my gaming room. Thanks for the inspiration, Rivermurk!
I recently did some investigation into getting these onto my gaming room wall. Turns out to be prohibitively expensive to get a frame this size custom made (in the region of hundreds of dollars).
My solution was 4 * $10 frames from target. Some pictures below of the final result. Total cost, including the map-pack less than $60.
Exactly what I did with my Greyhawk Maps from Dungeon, but it looks I'll have to turn the frames sideways for the Golarion ones!
I wish I had the wall space to do that.
I hope this sells well enough that they make a same size window adhesive version that could go on large plate glass or sliding glass doors.
:D
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Agreed! This is exactly what I will be doing for my gaming room. Thanks for the inspiration, Rivermurk!
Wow! That looks great!
Cool - glad you guys like it. Wife thinks it looks like a large window ("into another world" I keep responding) and my 3yr old daughter keeps asking me where our house is on the map.
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I just bought the PDF version and, with the exception of no nation borders, I am very happy with the product.
Why no nation borders? I found them very interesting and during play they are a wonderful gameplay aid. I plan on adding them myself but would have preferred the same simple dotted red nation borders from the original map.
Does the printed version have nation borders?
No, and that's my biggest complaint, too. National borders would have been nice.
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I just bought the PDF version and, with the exception of no nation borders, I am very happy with the product.
Why no nation borders? I found them very interesting and during play they are a wonderful gameplay aid. I plan on adding them myself but would have preferred the same simple dotted red nation borders from the original map.
Does the printed version have nation borders?
We almost put nation borders on the map, but in the end we decided not to because it caused a bit too much clutter in some spots, and also because we didn't have time to make sure we got the borders exactly right.
The maps that appear in the Inner Sea World Guide DO have the borders, though.
You could share only the borders without the underlying map. :)
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I recently did some investigation into getting these onto my gaming room wall. Turns out to be prohibitively expensive to get a frame this size custom made (in the region of hundreds of dollars).
My solution was 4 * $10 frames from target. Some pictures below of the final result. Total cost, including the map-pack less than $60.
Nice lair. I haven't finished my basement, but man, I think I want to do that sooner rather than later!
Cool - glad you guys like it. Wife thinks it looks like a large window ("into another world" I keep responding) and my 3yr old daughter keeps asking me where our house is on the map.
I haven't gotten the actual product yet, so for my own reference, what size frames did these take? Did you have to modify the maps at all, or are they a common size? (I showed my wife the pictures you posted and she was immediately on board with setting this up in our new game room! SQUEE!)
I haven't gotten the actual product yet, so for my own reference, what size frames did these take? Did you have to modify the maps at all, or are they a common size? (I showed my wife the pictures you posted and she was immediately on board with setting this up in our new game room! SQUEE!)Cool - glad you guys like it. Wife thinks it looks like a large window ("into another world" I keep responding) and my 3yr old daughter keeps asking me where our house is on the map.
I just got done putting mine up in place of my Greyhawk maps (Though those moved to a different wall) I got the 23X34 Poster Frames which worked out nicely
Yup. The War of the Lance was the defining campaign/setting/novels of my teenage years.
Are those Dragonlance modules framed on your wall?
I'm liking the framed Akira and Old Boy posters too. Now I need to check my posters, I can't remember if I own one for Akira or not. (Posters are currently put away. Only one hanging is Bestiary 2 Promo.)
These are very inspiring pictures and my map collections have just grown a lot recently. First I got that four-part Faerun map that was in the Dragon Magazines, and now the Inner Sea map. The Inner Sea map is especially deserving of some wall space. (The Faerun map is big but doesn't appear more detailed than the pull-out from FRCS.)