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Hey all.
I've got the Dungeon 97 & 98 Web Enhancements, and I downloaded the "Player's Handouts" from my Shackled City Hardcover, but I don't have a bunch of maps that were included in the hardcover. For example, I don't have the Brass Tankard or the Lucky Monkey.
Are they available for download anywhere? Can I request that the kind Paizo folk include these maps in the web enhancements? Or offer another download for all the maps in the HardCover?
Any and all help is appreciated.
Your hardcover should have come with a booklet of maps glued into the back cover. It includes the floorplans for both the Lucky Monkey and the Tipped Tankard. I couldn't found these maps aavailable for download anywhere, so I took my booklet and scanned the pages so I could use them on my laptop, and so my booklet wouldn't get mangled from overuse. If your hardcover didn't come with the booklet, then someone got to the book before you did (maybe one of your player ;-)
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My hardcover did come with the maps.
I can scan them, and will if necessary, but I have to admit I feel like I shouldn't have to.
In all seriousness, digital maps might be a "bonus feature" but they're one that I think are important. It didn't take very many for me to get spoiled with them. Considering that they're now available in the magazine "supplment" it should be available for the hardback. I did spend $60 or so on the book. I wish they had charged me $2 more for a CD with all the maps, and NPC pics so I could print them up for my PCs if necessary.
I mean, if they're going to run the Lucky Monkey, don't you think they should get a map? I'm not giving up my copy (they'll ruin it). So, I have to scan it but not everyone can do that.
I hope they'll remedy the situation - expand the issue #98 supplment at the very least.
I do agree with you. With what I paid for this book, there should have been a CD inside with every single picture and map featured in the book. Scanning takes time, resources, ink, and can ruin the binding of the book. There should have been separate files you could open for each character which included their stat block, and other pertinent information. So much is scattered throughout this book that keeping track of it all is a full time job. I am very thankful for those who have taken the time to put some of this stuff together and posted files elsewhere, but searching takes time as well, and, really, the ones who created this very cool world should have been the ones to take the time and provide these resources.
The new Monte Cook Ptolus book will come with a CD featuring all the important stuff in files you can use on your computer. It will be spendy as well, but also a very cool investment.
Don't get me wrong: I LOVE the HC of the SCAP. I had never heard of the setting before seeing the hardcover (I've only been back into gaming for a couple of years) and I am extremely impressed with the richness of the setting and can appreciate the amount of work that went into putting it all together in one volume. But it takes work to organize it all and get it together in a way that helps me as a DM. The last thing I want to worry about when crouched behind the screen is finding the stats for an NPC or trying to flip back and forth in a book of maps. I know, it's the old-fashioned, traditional, some would say purist way of doing things, but we have the technology to make the job easier. A little help in that department goes a long way.