Is there someplace that I can get an electronic copy of the Diamond Lake Map? I need a small copy of the map to show players in an on-line game. I thought there would be one in the Magazine or Overload supplements but there is not.
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I'd be interested in knowing how people are using this map in their game. What do you do with it? How do you show it to the players (in what context, etc.)?
I don't believe there's an official copy online.
Your best bet may be to simply scan the poster map, not ideal but probably the best option.
Well that's a bummer. I just don't understand why they provide a huge poster map, but not a one pager or a copy in the on-line. Dungeon supplement
So anybody out there have a copy that they scanned in. I need a low or mid-res version so that I can show the players the town they are in.
Well that's a bummer. I just don't understand why they provide a huge poster map, but not a one pager or a copy in the on-line. Dungeon supplement
If they follow suit as they did with Cauldron, there will eventually be a smaller map published in the module, which will then also be available with the downloads. As it's not necessary for either the second or the third installments, I'm guessing that's why we haven't seen it. Each is supposed to be playable as a stand alone adventure, which means that the next time there's a town setting, logic would dictate there needs to be a map of the town to go with it. If I remember correctly, Cauldron was a few games in before we got a handy 8 x 11 keyed map of the city that was readable without a magnifying glass.
Don't get me wrong... the poster maps are great and it's nice to have the players "ohhh" and "ahhh" over them... helps set the mood... but they're not as convenient for a quick reference tool. (Though I did pull out the Cauldron poster map for the evacuation game to put under the minis...was a handy tool to use for that... and the players all had sad little faces when I told them it was the last game they'd be playing set in the city. Ah well... wrong board.)
I'd be interested in knowing how people are using this map in their game. What do you do with it? How do you show it to the players (in what context, etc.)?
I'm going to pin it to the wall when we play. The reason being, half the party is born and bred in DL and hence knows the terrain, while the other half has been around long enough to get a rough idea of what's where. So the characters know where they are, but the players don't. Besides, none of the locations marked are done obviously enough to attract interest, IMO.
i just put the map out on the table and they place the minis on it when they move around that way i can keep track of them when smenks minions come after them for being too rich in tidwoad's
I'd be interested in knowing how people are using this map in their game. What do you do with it? How do you show it to the players (in what context, etc.)?
I traced/drew the whole thing over again...my oldest daughter (5) helped color it.
I'm going to pin it to the wall when we play. The reason being, half the party is born and bred in DL and hence knows the terrain, while the other half has been around long enough to get a rough idea of what's where. So the characters know where they are, but the players don't. Besides, none of the locations marked are done obviously enough to attract interest, IMO.
I couldn't do this. None of my party's from the Cairn Hills area. Didn't want the numbers on the map to give anything away.
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My group have all been in Diamond Lake for a year or more (the half-orc bard and the halfling rogue were born here, the dwarven ranger was assigned as a vermin-slayer to the Greysmere covenant, the human barbarian came here after bandits slew her family and now labors for Smenk in the mines, and the cleric of St. Cuthbert is a reluctant acolyte to Jierian Wierus and considers him quite mad). I scanned the map and then printed it with water-resistant inks, aged it with tea, burned parts of the edges, gave it a wine glass stain or two, and then handed it to my players. It instantly gave the town a feeling of decrepitude and ruin.
This is a bummer. My map somehow vanished into the black hole that is my gaming room. I have a sick feeling my wife threw it away with the newspaper or something sick like that.