I made a full scale playable map using just a bit of photoshop, scissors and tape. Each room is its own page so I can place them down as the next doors are opened. Here's a couple pics, let me know what you think.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o320/ryan-meredith/114.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o320/ryan-meredith/115.jpg
Very cool.
I wish I had the time, energy and talent to do things like this. As it is, I'm lucky to be even partially prepped for my normal every-other-week game...much less have awesome layouts like this all set up.
Thanks. I tend to ended up with a bit of extra time because my players have baaad attendance issues.
Very nice!
you have good enough attendance to make it to the end of the STAP, so you are better off than my group. *grin*
you have good enough attendance to make it to the end of the STAPThe map is from 1/3rd of the way through STAP.
D'oh! I was thinking the shrine of Wat Dagon--in that case you are only a few encounters ahead of us since we are under the mountains just north of this shrine.
still cool...
Aweseome job.
Any chance of sharing that full scale playable map with us, less photoshop gifted, DMs? :D
+1. My players are almost at Dark Mountain Pass, so the timing is perfect. My email is ellegua AT gmail.
I did something similar...only I used the online supplements (free downloadable here ) Pdf's and you play with the enlarge % feature then print screen (or something...just not print "page") you have to print a couple to get the size but if you enlarge it and have a small 1x1 scrap of paper to compare scale it's a pretty quick process
~of course I did it at work so it was cost effective to try a few enlarge %'s to get it right ;)
EDIT: go with the hi-res supplements if you do this otherwise it will be REAL blurry when you enlarge it
EDIT 2: Plus the supplements have the DM maps AND Maps with no numbers or letters on them (so the players don't know they're entering area 2c)
Hey Dio - nice work - if you are sharing include me please! joshua4242 at hotmail dot com
I made a full scale playable map using just a bit of photoshop, scissors and tape. Each room is its own page so I can place them down as the next doors are opened. Here's a couple pics, let me know what you think.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o320/ryan-meredith/114.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o320/ryan-meredith/115.jpg
Dio
Is there anyway I can get this map from you?
Jason
Hi all,
couldn't agree more - enlarged versions of the map pictures are a great playing aid.
Was struggling for a while with how to re-size the pic's to the right grid-size, then created a 25mm grid in Visio, then copy-pasted the unlabelled versions of the maps from the Supplement, and re-sized until the grid on the map matched the grid on the visio page. You'll still need to join at least 4 pages together. Visio was easy as the ruler view is built into the page, but anything where you can easily draw an exact grid, and then insert an image under the grid would do.
And yes, helps to have access to a $30,000 colour copier ;]
Finally - for Shrine of Demogorgon, i can't recommend a Barrel of Monkeys highly enough - monkey statues, swarms of fiendish baboons, you name it..
Triple20!
I also have access to a work printer. I am wondering how many enlarges were needed to get the map to the right size?
Thanks
Jason