Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Iron Gods Poster Map Folio

Announced! Cover image and description are not final.

Hmm. I think the product description got hit by a copy/paste error (preliminary as it may be). :D

Hahaha! The Hold of Belkzen...

Announced! Cover image and description are not final.

Yep, I really hope that description isn't final. ;)

Hmm. I think the product description got hit by a copy/paste error (preliminary as it may be). :D

Razzle-frazzin' pugwampis.

I believe that "pore over" should be "pour over" ... :)

I believe that "pore over" should be "pour over" ... :)

Poor over.

I believe that "pore over" should be "pour over" ... :)

Pore vs. pour.

I stand corrected :) - and really should get some sleep if I made that mistake!

(Nifty dictionary site, by the way.)

Wait, does this mean that the third ink-and-parchment style map is going to be like the Savage Tide AP one from a long while back of the Isle of Dread that just screamed 'Here be Monsters' and was a good map to give to the players to use?

The ink and parchment maps we do are very "Here Be Monsters." Ben Wootten is the artist on them and he does an amazing job. We've been doing maps of this style since the Skull & Shackles Map Folio, and so far we've done the Shackles, Varisia, Irrisen, the River Kingdoms, the Abyss, Osirion, and now Numeria.

Im just wondering why so late into the start of the Iron Gods campaign...shouldnt this be coming out now with the release of Iron Gods??

We use a couple of the maps in the Adventure Path itself, and we need to have them completed and in print there before we can use them for the posters. For example, we only currently have one of the three maps done at this point.

I understand the reasoning behind why it can't actually be printed yet, but I have to agree that having these kind of maps at the beginning of the Adventure Path would be far more helpful. I can't speak for the future or anything, but so far it seems like the PCs don't spend an overly large amount of time in Torch past Fires of Creation so if you're running Iron Gods from when it came out (like me) then you have a map that you will very likely not need by the time you have the folio unless you run Iron Gods again.

I honestly don't know if such things can actually be changed in the first place, but having the maps come out at around the same time as the first part of the adventure path might be more useful for DMs.

Cover image and description updated.

I understand the reasoning behind why it can't actually be printed yet, but I have to agree that having these kind of maps at the beginning of the Adventure Path would be far more helpful. I can't speak for the future or anything, but so far it seems like the PCs don't spend an overly large amount of time in Torch past Fires of Creation so if you're running Iron Gods from when it came out (like me) then you have a map that you will very likely not need by the time you have the folio unless you run Iron Gods again.

I honestly don't know if such things can actually be changed in the first place, but having the maps come out at around the same time as the first part of the adventure path might be more useful for DMs.

It would definitely be more useful.

If I had started the Reign of Winter AP when it came out instead of significantly after they all had the map folio which only depicts areas from the second and third modules would have come way too late for me to use them.

Added a sample image.

Please.. will there be an option to turn off map tags for the PDF like the interactive maps? For my campaign it's a huge thing as exploration and discovery are part of the experience. I can use the lower-resolution maps which have that ability, but in getting the map-folio I'm looking to get get nice high-resolution images for my VTT.

How do the map folios work? Are they super high quality images for the PDF and a large folded poster for the print version?

Map folios are available at 150 dpi at the same dimensions they are printed at for the physical product. As for map tags, we only provide Interactive Maps for the Adventure Path line. However, we do strive to provide all maps with the tags as a separate object, so that you can just grab the map image.

I really want to continue to brag on you guys for including the "player friendly" region maps. I hope you'll keep including similar maps when they make sense. Your map folio products have come a long way since Rise of the Runelords map folio. Thanks for listening to customer feedback and continuing to improve them!

-Skeld

I really want to continue to brag on you guys for including the "player friendly" region maps. I hope you'll keep including similar maps when they make sense. Your map folio products have come a long way since Rise of the Runelords map folio. Thanks for listening to customer feedback and continuing to improve them!

-Skeld

Thanks! I love maps, so I'm as happy as you are that we've raised the bar for the Poster Map Folios. I think the biggest thing is the addition of the illustrated maps by Ben, but we've also been paying a lot of attention to making the other two maps as useful in a game as they are pleasing to look at.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll certainly keep listening. :)

Skeld wrote:

I really want to continue to brag on you guys for including the "player friendly" region maps. I hope you'll keep including similar maps when they make sense. Your map folio products have come a long way since Rise of the Runelords map folio. Thanks for listening to customer feedback and continuing to improve them!

-Skeld

Thanks! I love maps, so I'm as happy as you are that we've raised the bar for the Poster Map Folios. I think the biggest thing is the addition of the illustrated maps by Ben, but we've also been paying a lot of attention to making the other two maps as useful in a game as they are pleasing to look at.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll certainly keep listening. :)

Right, the other maps are usually useful too, but those player-friendly regional maps really take it up a notch.

Something else I'd like to see are pockets or something inside the cover that hold the maps in place. Once you've taken the shrinkwrap off, there's nothing to keep the maps inside the cover.

-Skeld

question about these products ... do they include Maps for the dungeons ?

No, they don't. These map folios typically present poster maps of cities or overland views of countries. In the case of this particular Map Folio, the three maps are: the town of Torch, Numeria's capitol of Starfall, and a ink and parchment map of Numeria.

Why do they have only three maps? One sheet has two sides, and two sheets have four sides to print on. How does three maps work? Is one of them printed on both sides of one sheet? Is one sheet side blank? Does one sheet have two maps?

The Map Folios are three 8-panel poster maps that come folded in a shrink-wrapped sleeve. Our old Map Folios were single 8" X 11-1/2"-ish sheets that reprinted the maps in the adventures.

People weren't happy with that format, so the Map Folios evolved over time into the current poster map format to serve as useful handouts and be both GM-friendly and player-friendly overall.

So...do I understand correctly that you have three separate sheets of paper? And on each, only one side is printed?

So...do I understand correctly that you have three separate sheets of paper? And on each, only one side is printed?

Well, 3 posters rather than sheets - each one 34" x 22" & printed on one side. They're the size of 8 single sheets of paper.

Weird. I wonder why they're printed on only one side. Seems like you could do twice the maps for the same packaging size. Maybe they've done marketing research that not enough people would pay the higher price for double the maps.