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I'm running Expedition to Castle Ravenloft. Wizards has some nice maps posted up for it on their website. I'd love to use some of the battle maps as is by printing them out in a larger size. Only issue is they seem to have all the secret doors and moster locations marked on them.
I always find it sad that there are these very beautiful pictures/maps/etc. posted that I can't share. I end up drawing a crappy outline on a mat and I don't feel like the player's get the same atmosphere, obviously.
What is your favorite way to get these type of maps "player ready" ? Go to town with Photoshop or is there a better way?
Pete
I would try to rework them with some graphics software, and just fiddle a bit with the map provided.
Stefan
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For those that don't have Photoshop you can download GIMP and it will do the job just fine. It is a free open resource ap.
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For Ravenloft I went and bought poster board with semi-invisible graphing. Then I hand drew out each room and cut them out. As the PCs went through the castle, I laid it out, one room at a time. I actually made battle mats for the land encounters with the same poster board and some colored pencils.
It was some work but it was either that or draw it out on a white board. It would have cost to much to get it printed out professionally or even on my home printer.
Heh, it's one way to get people to read the thread. ;)
yep, i paged through ravenloft looking for the naughty bits. like i read bram stokers dracula, looking for the naughty bits. didnt find any there either. but it is a delema. i like the bit about drawing them on poster board, i should look to see how well they work with the dungeon tiles. my abilitys to screw up adventure maps when going from the little map to the battle map knows no ends.
Put fake secret doors all over the place as red herrings and tell the players that there may or may not be traps and or secret doors at any marked location, and that they are all places that seasoned adventurers may expect such, then roll as normal.
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I just figured it should have been in the Off-topic forum and got misplaced. I entered ready with answers!Heh, I saw the title and was thinking "What kind of house rules is this guy playing with?"Me too. lol :DReading the thread title, I sooo came into this one with false expectations.
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Made ya look! :-)
What is your favorite way to get these type of maps "player ready" ? Go to town with Photoshop or is there a better way?
My favorite way to do it is to only run adventures from folks who provide player maps...folks like Paizo.
My least favorite way to do it is use GIMP, copy a bit of the graphic from somewhere and paste that over the naughty bit. I doesn't make a perfect blend but usually good enough that the players don't spot it.
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What is your favorite way to get these type of maps "player ready" ? Go to town with Photoshop or is there a better way?
My favorite way to do it is to only run adventures from folks who provide player maps...folks like Paizo.
Where are those exactly? I can't seem to find the Pathfinder or Gamemastery player maps on the site or in my PDF downloads.
-Pete
I thought there was gonna be bewbies in here.
What is your favorite way to get these type of maps "player ready" ? Go to town with Photoshop or is there a better way?
My favorite way to do it is to only run adventures from folks who provide player maps...folks like Paizo.
Where are those exactly? I can't seem to find the Pathfinder or Gamemastery player maps on the site or in my PDF downloads.
-Pete
cut and paste from pdf
Except the first issue, which was flattened, I think, you should be able to cut the image without the labels. For secret doors you'll have to think of hiding it behind something that doesn't scream secret door to the players.
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Except the first issue, which was flattened, I think, you should be able to cut the image without the labels. For secret doors you'll have to think of hiding it behind something that doesn't scream secret door to the players.
Nice! I hadn't tried this previously, I see now what you say about the labels. Still have to work on the secret doors so I wouldn't call it a "player map" but it's a step in the right direction. Thanks for the tip!