What are the rest of you GM-type-people doing about the rotating maps in Rathfinder #9? My graphics skills are weak, but I'm pondering trying to learn enough editing to just make three more versions of the map so that I can save myself mental acrobatics mid-game. On the one hand it's easy enough to calculate the rotations every time, but on the other hand anything I can do ahead of time to make the actual running of the game easier is worth doing. If I get REALLY ambitious I'll learn some flash and make it so that any time you click the map the next rotation shows, but that might be a bit beyond me given current time constraints.
Has anyone done anything like this yet?
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Ah, I just found what you are referring to. Here's what I'm planning on doing.
* Grabbing the map from the SELECT tool from Adobe 8 (yes, the red circles and room numbers don't come with it):
NOTE: Spoiler, don't click here if you are playing the module.LINK
* Print it out on a full piece of 8x11 paper and then glue it to cardboard.
* I'll cut into pieces for each section, and keep it behind my screen as a reference while they are going through it. As I rotate images I'll use the blue sticky stuff in craft stores to hold them in palce.
* I'll also enlarge the sections to 1-inch squares for minis so during play the rooms can rotate too on the battlemat.
-DM Jeff
I'm going to be making 4 versions of the map for my game (we use a projector and Maptools) so I'll post them when I make them.
Thing is, I won't be running this for months. I'll see if I can't do it more quickly though, and I'll post the pics for you here if I do. They'd be a bit scaled (my maps all need 32 pixels per inch) but otherwise they should be what you're looking for.
Only just reading it now, won't run it for a while yet, but I just couldn't resist making them: rotated maps.
Thanks, Alex! Those are great!
Creative Director
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This is why our message boards are the best! When it finally came time to do this map in Pathfinder... I realized that I really should have included maps for all four layouts of the dungeon, but that would have required losing a page and a half of text and that was too grisly a task to contemplate. I was hoping to be able to get some maps up online as a web enhancement for the volume to show the rotations, but knew that we probably wouldn't have the resources to do so in time... and POW! MESSAGEBOARDS TO THE RESCUE!
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