So a recent closeout sale at a FLGS finally prompted me to buy a couple of Map Packs, and I'm hooked. *yeah* Ancient Forest and Elven City will work quite nicely in a wilderness adventure I'm cooking up. But why is there no love for other wilderness settings?
There are enough urban-related packs to run the entire city of Korvosa or Absalom without lifting a sharpie (which I'll probably do next). But aside from a sampling in Campsites, I don't see any packs on the lineup featuring other less-than-civilized locales. Are these coming up in sync with future adventures in Garund & Kelesh?
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So a recent closeout sale at a FLGS finally prompted me to buy a couple of Map Packs, and I'm hooked. *yeah* Ancient Forest and Elven City will work quite nicely in a wilderness adventure I'm cooking up. But why is there no love for other wilderness settings?
There are enough urban-related packs to run the entire city of Korvosa or Absalom without lifting a sharpie (which I'll probably do next). But aside from a sampling in Campsites, I don't see any packs on the lineup featuring other less-than-civilized locales. Are these coming up in sync with future adventures in Garund & Kelesh?
Well....
The Flip Mats are actually full of terrain. There is also some "here and there" within the Map Pack series as a whole. To name a few Flipmats....and one discoed.
Snow Mountain Pass (One with and one w/o Towers)
River Crossing (Flipside is Wilderness w/o Bridge)
Forest Path (flipside pure green)(Discontinued)
Darklands (caves or caverns, you figure it out)
Deserts (one like Egypt w/sphinx, the other like egyptian desert w/o)
Keep (Flipside is Faintly pathed Wilderness)
Tavern (Flipside is grassy with traces of Cobblestone)
City Market (Flipside is greenish Cobblestone)
New Basic Map (Dry Summer Grass and White Tundra on flip)
Ship (Ship on one side w/multilevels and plain blue ocean on the other)
Lastly, Woodlands (which is both sides wilderness)
Add these to the mix and you have quite an arsenal. Flipmats are also made by the same artist, so they are very consistent, just more grandiose.
Cheers,
Zuxius
The Flip Mats are actually full of terrain. There is also some "here and there" within the Map Pack series as a whole. To name a few Flipmats....and one discoed.
Thanks for the heads-up about the "B-sides" of the Flip-mats, Woodlands and maybe River Crossing may work well for me. I think I like the Map Packs better as a product b/c of their modularity, but the Flip-mats ought to make a good terrain backdrop for whatever oddball scenarios I can come up with.
Not too sure about Mountain Pass though, it seems a little too specific. (And it would still be cool to see swamps get some cartographic-love.)
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The Flip Mats are actually full of terrain. There is also some "here and there" within the Map Pack series as a whole. To name a few Flipmats....and one discoed.Thanks for the heads-up about the "B-sides" of the Flip-mats, Woodlands and maybe River Crossing may work well for me. I think I like the Map Packs better as a product b/c of their modularity, but the Flip-mats ought to make a good terrain backdrop for whatever oddball scenarios I can come up with.
Not too sure about Mountain Pass though, it seems a little too specific. (And it would still be cool to see swamps get some cartographic-love.)
Paizo says they are trying to tie their adventures into areas that the Map Packs and the Flipmats can use. In this case, I believe an excellent swamp enduring adventure is only a matter of time.
Cheers,
Zuxius
The flip maps are good, and I am getting them as they come out, but they are somewhat limited. They are of a fixed size and shape and are smaller than the gaming table on which I generally play. Also, they have only one layout, although that is mitigated by the ease of drawing on them.
As such, I would really like to see map packs with basic wilderness terrain, stuff without any artificial constructs at all. I would love to be able to just deal out a forest just by tossing a set of cards out on the gaming mat, and then add in a campsite if I need on. A river, some mountan terrain, islands in a swamp, desert mesas and gullies, these would be real nice to have as well.
...I would really like to see map packs with basic wilderness terrain, stuff without any artificial constructs at all. I would love to be able to just deal out a forest just by tossing a set of cards out on the gaming mat, and then add in a campsite if I need on. A river, some mountan terrain, islands in a swamp, desert mesas and gullies, these would be real nice to have as well.
I'll go one further and say that I'd like to see some synergy between the Map Packs and the Flip-Mats. I'd love to be able to use the Flip-Mat as the basis for a terrain I'm going to use, but then have Map Pack cards that I can use to overlay certain sections to drop in something uniquely different. That way, I can further maximize the variety for table-top maps.
Just my two-cents,
--Neil
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The flip maps are good, and I am getting them as they come out, but they are somewhat limited. They are of a fixed size and shape and are smaller than the gaming table on which I generally play. Also, they have only one layout, although that is mitigated by the ease of drawing on them.
As such, I would really like to see map packs with basic wilderness terrain, stuff without any artificial constructs at all. I would love to be able to just deal out a forest just by tossing a set of cards out on the gaming mat, and then add in a campsite if I need on. A river, some mountan terrain, islands in a swamp, desert mesas and gullies, these would be real nice to have as well.
Yea, I talked a while back about Flip Mat/Map Pack Objects. They could be slightly transparent and thrown onto a map with just squares. Talk about deal an adventure, but she said something that it is an idea they keep throwing around but can't seem to pin down, or was it pen down.
Cheers,
Zuxius
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...I would really like to see map packs with basic wilderness terrain, stuff without any artificial constructs at all. I would love to be able to just deal out a forest just by tossing a set of cards out on the gaming mat, and then add in a campsite if I need on. A river, some mountan terrain, islands in a swamp, desert mesas and gullies, these would be real nice to have as well.I'll go one further and say that I'd like to see some synergy between the Map Packs and the Flip-Mats. I'd love to be able to use the Flip-Mat as the basis for a terrain I'm going to use, but then have Map Pack cards that I can use to overlay certain sections to drop in something uniquely different. That way, I can further maximize the variety for table-top maps.
Just my two-cents,
--Neil
You know what Neil, I think they actually did this with waterfront. No wonder you are where you are now.