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I just started reading CotCT (my RotRL campaign is still going on). And I noticed something really great. Except for one map, all the others have the room numbers fitting neatly in a single 5-foot square.
I don't know if it was Paizo listening (I and others requested this shortly after RotRL came out) or it's just coincedence, but I wanted to say thanks. I blow up these maps to scale to use with minis, and it's so much easier editing out the numbers when they in a single square.
And, what a great adventure so far. Loving it.
-DM Jeff
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I just started reading CotCT (my RotRL campaign is still going on). And I noticed something really great. Except for one map, all the others have the room numbers fitting neatly in a single 5-foot square.
I don't know if it was Paizo listening (I and others requested this shortly after RotRL came out) or it's just coincedence, but I wanted to say thanks. I blow up these maps to scale to use with minis, and it's so much easier editing out the numbers when they in a single square.
And, what a great adventure so far. Loving it.
-DM Jeff
It's more of a coincidence, I believe, but that said, I have been trying to pay more attention to the map tags and make sure that the numbers don't cover up TOO much of the content. But, especially given the fact that we use alphanumeric tags AND numerals (A1, B20, C32, etc.) for our maps, it won't always work out so nice and neat.
I blow up these maps to scale to use with minis, and it's so much easier editing out the numbers when they in a single square.
-DM Jeff
Mr. Jacobs (or anyone else from Paizo):
Has any thought ever been given to providing online, larger scale versions of the kinds of maps DM Jeff refers to? Maybe as downloads available to anyone who has purchased the product? Unmarked city maps would make great handouts, and larger scale dungeon maps could be printed and laid on a table as rooms were explored.
(and yes, CotCT is awesome so far!)
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I blow up these maps to scale to use with minis, and it's so much easier editing out the numbers when they in a single square.
-DM Jeff
Mr. Jacobs (or anyone else from Paizo):
Has any thought ever been given to providing online, larger scale versions of the kinds of maps DM Jeff refers to? Maybe as downloads available to anyone who has purchased the product? Unmarked city maps would make great handouts, and larger scale dungeon maps could be printed and laid on a table as rooms were explored.
(and yes, CotCT is awesome so far!)
Yes... and unfortunately, that's not really an option for us at this time. We can't simply blow up the maps to minis-scale; their pixels would show. And paying to have maps done at that scale is WAY out of our budget range. And to be honest, simply providing a duplicate untagged map for download is a bit out of our capabilities resource-wise right now too. There SHOULD be a way to extract the maps without tags from the PDFs though... I seem to remember someone was able to do that, at least... not sure where I read about that though.
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Yes... and unfortunately, that's not really an option for us at this time. We can't simply blow up the maps to minis-scale; their pixels would show. And paying to have maps done at that scale is WAY out of our budget range. And to be honest, simply providing a duplicate untagged map for download is a bit out of our capabilities resource-wise right now too. There SHOULD be a way to extract the maps without tags from the PDFs though... I seem to remember someone was able to do that, at least... not sure where I read about that though.I blow up these maps to scale to use with minis, and it's so much easier editing out the numbers when they in a single square.
-DM Jeff
Mr. Jacobs (or anyone else from Paizo):
Has any thought ever been given to providing online, larger scale versions of the kinds of maps DM Jeff refers to? Maybe as downloads available to anyone who has purchased the product? Unmarked city maps would make great handouts, and larger scale dungeon maps could be printed and laid on a table as rooms were explored.
(and yes, CotCT is awesome so far!)
I've been able to do that. It's fairly easy; the room numbers in later issues (not sure exactly where it starts) are separate images from the maps. I'm not very good at verbal tutorials, though, so I won't try to explain exactly how.
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I've been able to do that. It's fairly easy; the room numbers in later issues (not sure exactly where it starts) are separate images from the maps. I'm not very good at verbal tutorials, though, so I won't try to explain exactly how.
There SHOULD be a way to extract the maps without tags from the PDFs though... I seem to remember someone was able to do that, at least... not sure where I read about that though.
in adobe use the select tool and edit copy/edit paste ino whatever image software you use. if you use the snapshot tool, it will grab the room numbers as well... i beleive this started with PF 3 or 4
I just started reading CotCT (my RotRL campaign is still going on). And I noticed something really great. Except for one map, all the others have the room numbers fitting neatly in a single 5-foot square.
I don't know if it was Paizo listening (I and others requested this shortly after RotRL came out) or it's just coincedence, but I wanted to say thanks. I blow up these maps to scale to use with minis, and it's so much easier editing out the numbers when they in a single square.
And, what a great adventure so far. Loving it.
-DM Jeff
How do you blow these maps up to scale? I've been trying to figure that out forever.
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in adobe use the select tool and edit copy/edit paste ino whatever image software you use. if you use the snapshot tool, it will grab the room numbers as well... i beleive this started with PF 3 or 4
Right, if you use the Print Screen key that grabs the numbers and all but in Adobe if you grab the image with the select tool (in Adobe 8 it's the same as the text select) it takes the image but not the numbers.
-DM Jeff
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It's more of a coincidence, I believe, but that said, I have been trying to pay more attention to the map tags and make sure that the numbers don't cover up TOO much of the content. But, especially given the fact that we use alphanumeric tags AND numerals (A1, B20, C32, etc.) for our maps, it won't always work out so nice and neat.
Completely fair enough. And it's not that big a deal. The biggest deal is when a single room is larger than 8x11 squares, and gee, look at that, all the areas in CotCT so far fit on a single 8x11 page...you guys are better than you thought! ;-)
-DM Jeff
Yes... and unfortunately, that's not really an option for us at this time. We can't simply blow up the maps to minis-scale; their pixels would show. And paying to have maps done at that scale is WAY out of our budget range. And to be honest, simply providing a duplicate untagged map for download is a bit out of our capabilities resource-wise right now too. There SHOULD be a way to extract the maps without tags from the PDFs though... I seem to remember someone was able to do that, at least... not sure where I read about that though.
Completely understandable.
Being able to print up the maps without tags is awesome in and of itself, even if they're not blown up.
Thank you for the quick response! You guys really spoil us, you know that? :-)