Is there any way for all of us to share player maps from the various Pathfinders? Checking the OGL from FotSG, I see "locations" and "artwork" are not OGL. I'm guessing maps fall into one of those. Thus, no OGL sharing of player maps.
Playing online, a player map is a huge, huge, help. Without player maps, Pathfinder is much less attractive to me and other online players.
EDIT: I need to qualify this, because I'm not sure I understand. In the post below I am referring to maps that I created myself, based upon the maps in the books. I am NOT referring to the maps in the PDF.
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I did this for awhile.. with Chapter One. Then I was able to get good scale copies plotted for me by a buddy.
Paizo had no problem with it. I just cited the source on the actual map, gave them away for free, and told people they weren't for sale to anyone.
One Paizo employee actually asked for them to use, but I am keeping their name to myself.
You can find my maps at Lilith's site... dmtools.org
Those would be one type of map, Watcher. (Watcher's maps here for inquiring minds: http://www.dmtools.org/resources.php?nav=misc).
A map scanned from the book (or taken from the PDF) and then the room numbers, traps, and secret doors removed by someone with strong graphics-fu would be the other type of map.
It would be nice to have some official word that this is "ok for non-commercial use, in online or home games only" type of statement.
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Thanks Watcher for sharing those maps. I couldn't help but notice that they were made using a software called dundjinni, so I googled it and man it is an awesome program! I was looking for just something like this. You see I hate it when the adventure needs to stop for minutes while I'm drawing on the battle mat the room our bold adventuring party just entered. And then wet-erase and redraw the whole room again when I realize that due to some miscalculated number of squares, the room ended up 5 squares "below" a corridor it was supposed to connect with. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. :-) So I was trying to create player maps using the wonderful MS-Paint program and then print out the result in 1" scale, so I can just put the map on the battlegrid, place the minis and away we go. However as you might guess MS-Paint is ... well let's just say it's not quite designed to do this. So I'm very excited to find this program called dundjinni, which seems to have been created just for this very purpose. While with the trial version I couldn't do such a cool map as the ones done by Watcher, I still managed to draw the outlines of Fort Rannick, lvl 2 as a practice. It looks ugly and there are no doors or whatever, but still, someone might find it useful, so I'm putting it up on my website here free of charge, and umm, like Copyleft - All rights reversed. There that should do it, please do not send me money if you use it. :-) Anyway if I manage to cough up 40 bucks for the full-version dundjinni software and doing something like this is really okay, then there might be more of these player maps coming from me in the future, provided I can overcome my general laziness and manage to avoid my boss seeing what I'm doing on a company computer during office hours :-)
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All kinds of linkied up.Those would be one type of map, Watcher. (Watcher's maps here for inquiring minds: Watcher's Maps).
A map scanned from the book (or taken from the PDF) and then the room numbers, traps, and secret doors removed by someone with strong graphics-fu would be the other type of map.
It would be nice to have some official word that this is "ok for non-commercial use, in online or home games only" type of statement.
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Not to be a nay-sayer but do these violate Dundjinni's Terms of Use?
7: Borax makes a map using all Dundjinni art packs and posts it to his personal website as a digital download for free. Infringement or no?
Answer: Not infringement, BUT Borax must place the Dundjinni compass rose art on his map. He must also put the phrase, “map made with Dundjinni. www.dunjinni.com” near the download link.
You can read Dunjinni's Terms of Use HERE
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