Ptolus and Rappan Athuk have adventure map products; dungeon tiles that one can buy to create the 1" scale adventure maps for use with miniatures. Skeletonkey sells them.
Why doesn't Paizo do the same for Dungeon adventures, particularly AP adventures? I know I'd buy them! Right now I'm having to print out 1" scale graph paper and draw freehand, then cut, paste, and mark up with markers, pencil, crayons, whatever. This sucks... I want tiles buyable from Piazo to make my job as DM a whole lot easier!
-Darren
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Dungeon adventures (and the Adventure Path) are owned by Wizards of the Coast, so if we wanted to do dungeon tile type products for these adventures, we'd have to secure the rights and permissions from WotC first, and we couldn't release them as GameMastery products since those are OGL whereas the Dungeon stuff is not. And on top of that, we've already pretty much got all our plates spinning; adding a new project has a pretty good chance of breaking some of the ones we've got whirling already.
Dungeon adventures (and the Adventure Path) are owned by Wizards of the Coast, so if we wanted to do dungeon tile type products for these adventures, we'd have to secure the rights and permissions from WotC first, and we couldn't release them as GameMastery products since those are OGL whereas the Dungeon stuff is not. And on top of that, we've already pretty much got all our plates spinning; adding a new project has a pretty good chance of breaking some of the ones we've got whirling already.
Too bad you couldn't release under the Dungeon magazine line. WotC might feel that you'd cut into dungeon tiles sales perhaps. Of course you can't even do a AoW book so going to WotC is not hopeful.
It's not fair, I want my mini maps. <sniff>
mf'in dream crushers.
I would be happy if the Maps of Mystery were included in the downloadable materials (sans all the text that is). Any chance of that?
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I would be happy if the Maps of Mystery were included in the downloadable materials (sans all the text that is). Any chance of that?
Probably not. We don't want to give the entire magazine away for free. And even if we wanted to, we can't, since our contract with WotC doesn't let us. Posting the art and maps for the adventures is about all we can (and want to) do.
Bummer, but I can see your point. Just save them up and publish a DVD of them or something someday I guess :)
The adventure maps in electronic for are incredibly useful. I play online using Fantasy Grounds for some of my games, and having the maps available without having to deal with scanning them, then importing into Gimp to blend out the room numbers and secret doors is a huge time saver. And for the tabletop game, I take the images and scale them up to minis friendly size
Way better than plain old wet erase.