So I've seen a lot of discussion on this and in the interest of giving a singular voice to this and offering some marketing information to Paizo, please answer the following:
1. Would you be interested in buying Map Folio PDFs with maps that print out to 1" printed = 5 ft map scale?
2. If so, at what's the highest price you'd pay for that?
Please note, this is not intended to be a discussion as to whether Paizo can do this at a certain cost or whether it makes business sense for Paizo to do this right now. This is simply a unified thread of feedback on the matter.
My answers:
#1 Yes
#2 $29.95 for the whole Map Folio.
My answers:
#1 Yes
#2 $29.95 for the whole Map Folio.
Hey, my old buddy VEECTOR...
I personally dislike pre-printed battlemats...so NO.
We're not talking pre-printed here, though, but rather PDFs, right?
For the questions, yes I'd buy them and if we're talking a Map Folio of every map in the adventure path in electronic format, I'd go $30 for that and probably try to get my players to chip in $5 each.
I'd love to have this rather than the current map folio, which provides me with little that I actually need but I always forget to cancel it out of my subscription shipping...
We're not talking pre-printed here, though, but rather PDFs, right?
Correct. This is just a PDF and you'd have to do your own printing.
Yes, i'd be interested...if they included all locations mapped in the books. $30 for the whole folio would be fine with me, but based on what we've heard from the Paizo guys in the other threads it doesn't really sound doable.
It's also worth noting that while I am subscribed to their APs and get every release, I would only buy maps for APs that I was actually going to run. For my group, which only plays monthly, we will probably take 2-3 years to get through a path, and we've only just started Runelords a couple weeks back.
If I'm interpreting you right, there's a similar product recently out called Encompass:
(I'm posting link so people can compare; hopefully it's okay to link to different company's products. If not, I apologize)
http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=2578&src=lj
That one in particular is both battlemap sized pdfs as well as smaller reference maps for GMs, etc.
They charge $6.95 for a 100+ page product. That seems more than a fair price.
I'd have trouble paying $29.95 for any .pdf when I can buy an already printed book/map pack/dungeon tile set for that or less. But I'm not intimately familiar with the Map Folio to judge fully--if it's really huge, then sure, that might be fair.
I'd love to have this rather than the current map folio, which provides me with little that I actually need but I always forget to cancel it out of my subscription shipping...
Is canceling an item out of a subscription even an option? I did not think it was.
I'd have trouble paying $29.95 for any .pdf when I can buy an already printed book/map pack/dungeon tile set for that or less. But I'm not intimately familiar with the Map Folio to judge fully--if it's really huge, then sure, that might be fair.
The Map Folio is all the maps from whichever Adventure Path you'd be using.
The $29.95 was just my max price, feel free to list whatever price you'd pay.
This would be a product that DMs of the Adventure Paths would most likely be interested in, it would have some use (but not guaranteed use) for those running homebrew campaigns.
If it included the entire Adventure Path, I'd pay up to $30 for every path that the product was available for and as they came out. If the price were higher I'd still buy the product, but would probably limit it to buying the product as I ran each Adventure Path (going as high as $50 per Adventure Path under this scenario).
I would love to see a product like this. But there is no way I would pay $30 for it. Maybe $14 for the pdf and $20 for a tangible product.
What I would like to see is the maps in the back of the AP/pdf. I know that is prolly not going to happen but I would be willing to shell out extra monies for this. If it was done on this model then folks that run APs as they come out can benefit from the folio and it is easy to keep track of the various maps.
I am not that interested in pull out maps of the cities, unless they add additional content (methinks of the Myth Drannor pullout from AD&D).
And yes I am not an economist so I don't know if it is feasible but one can dream.
EDIT: Do'h! Ninja'd by Eric.
1. Yes, especially if they included players' maps (without secret doors, room numbers, etc.). I don't care about the scale too much, though (since I play by post or email almost exclusively).
2. $5.
I'd love to have this rather than the current map folio, which provides me with little that I actually need but I always forget to cancel it out of my subscription shipping...Is canceling an item out of a subscription even an option? I did not think it was.
You can indeed--when you get the first email from Paizo letting you know they are getting ready to ship, email them back and request a product be removed. They're really good about getting it taken care of. The problem I have is forgetting to email them until after it's been billed, and thus shipped...
I consider the map folios Pathfinder Tax, anyway (well, beyond the neat poster maps - though I still have to determine where to hang them in my new home. Maybe when I get around unpacking things...)
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So I've seen a lot of discussion on this and in the interest of giving a singular voice to this and offering some marketing information to Paizo, please answer the following:
1. Would you be interested in buying Map Folio PDFs with maps that print out to 1" printed = 5 ft map scale?
2. If so, at what's the highest price you'd pay for that?
Personally I wouldn't buy it, as i prefer to draw the battlemap, and it is working fine this far.
But that's just me ...
No simple answers.
I get the battlemaps I need from community sources like Tintagel. If paying for it meant getting those maps faster and better, then yes, I would pay for it. Since it's only a PDF and a lot of the work would still be mine (printing and assembling) I wouldn't pay much more than $10 for one AP issue's worth — and that depends on quality.
So...
#1 — Yes, but only if the production would be faster and the quality better than the community currently has (and Tintagel has set the bar pretty high for himself)
#2 — No more than $10 for an AP.
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No idea what Tintagel is, other than a castle in Cornwall.
Let me see...
A full size map of every place where battle is expected.
The opportunity to AMAZE my players with gorgeous professional quality maps.
Never have to bother drawing primitive line drawn battlemats like I did 20 years ago.
To have maps to play with the show maturity in the game and that we aren't 14 years old anymore.
Yeah I would buy them in a heart beat.
Considering how many maps would be available, and balanced by me expense of printing them, I would say $15-20. If I HAD to pay $30, then that would be my upper limit.
But yeah it is a good idea. Essentially those marvelous maps in the APs are worthless. I don't know why Paizo or any other company pays to have cartographers create those maps, when a simple line drawing on a grid is all that is ever going to be used.
No idea what Tintagel is, other than a castle in Cornwall.
Tintagel is this guy.
Oh, and I'd buy the PDFs and pay, say, $25 per adventure path.
Please answer the following:
1. Would you be interested in buying Map Folio PDFs with maps that print out to 1" printed = 5 ft map scale?
2. If so, at what's the highest price you'd pay for that?
1) No. I hate PDFs and am also not interested in battle-map sized maps (we have a gridded whiteboard and much prefer to draw what we need, when we need it).
2) $0.
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But yeah it is a good idea. Essentially those marvelous maps in the APs are worthless. I don't know why Paizo or any other company pays to have cartographers create those maps, when a simple line drawing on a grid is all that is ever going to be used.
Same reason we don't do stick figures for illustrations. Maps in a Paizo product need to do two things: they need to be clear and usable by the GM so he can run the game, and they need to look pretty. They need to do double duty, in other words, as both game aid and artwork.
Making maps full color helps that clarity, especially in helping to show what areas are water and to help make some things stand out more than they would in black and white. Also: they look professional. A crude, hasty map would look out of place and shabby and lame and unprofessional in pathfinder when held up to the rest of the contents.
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I would pay around the current folio map cost for a hard copy of battlemaps. I would prefer the battle maps ver the current map folio product.
I would pay 1/2 to 2/3 the cost for a PDF... which would be unlikely if there was print product.
I would by print product in a heart beat. I use minis in my gaming sessions and a grid helps keep things clear and makes the games run smoothly. Plus I am busy IRL, so I neither have the time nor do I want to map my own maps and rescale.
Sure I would be willing to pay $25-$30 for the Battle-maps sized PDFS of the Aventure Paths! I usally draw out my own maps anyways on some 1-inch sized graph paper that I purchased. Adding in minor details as needed.
I actually lean towards making the Map Folios a PDF only product, or at least making the PDF version distinct from the printed version.
I have been buying the printed Map Folios, but overall I have gotten more use out of the PDFs.
I actually lean towards making the Map Folios a PDF only product, or making the PDF version distinct from the printed version.
I have been printing out the PDFs at 1" scale and using them as battle maps. The resolution isn't great, but may players really like the full color because it adds to the immersion.
I don't think that printed 1" scale maps of every battle site in an adventure path is even remotely economically feasible. That would literally be several square yards of color printing.
However, if the PDF version of the Map Folio came with 1" scale versions of the maps, players maps, etc, I would be willing to pay at least $15-$20 for just the PDF. I would bear the printing cost, and Paizo wouldn't have any shipping or printing cost.
I'm not sure if the lack of printing and shipping cost for Paizo would offset the added cost of doing more artwork & cartography.
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WARNING: I'm an editor, not a math mastermind, and so it's possible some of the following numbers are off...
I don't think that printed 1" scale maps of every battle site in an adventure path is even remotely economically feasible. That would literally be several square yards of color printing.
Correct; I mentioned on one of the many battlemat threads that are currently going that the maps in, for example, Pathfinder #11 were each of a huge castle, and done at a 1" square = 5 feet ratio, would result in a total of nearly 300 square feet of map. A single 8x11 inch sheet of paper is about 0.6 square feet, so that'd still be 180 PAGES of maps for a single volume of Pathfinder.
For a print product that size, we'd probably have to charge more than $30. For a print product that's actual maps of that size the cost would, I suspect, skyrocket.
We could do a PDF version, but that only puts the horror of printing out 180 pages of maps onto the customer.
And if you just want to project those files onto a table, or use them on a virtual table top... you'd best have a really fast connection to the internet to download them and a LOT of hard-drive space to store those files.
All that for one-sixth of the entire adventure path.
All that said... there's obviously a demand for something like this. While a full-resolution set of maps seems unfeasible... we haven't explored all those options yet. But it's not as simple as blowing up the file sizes and putting them on the internet, that's for sure.
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WARNING: I'm an editor, not a math mastermind, and so it's possible some of the following numbers are off...
Correct; I mentioned on one of the many battlemat threads that are currently going that the maps in, for example, Pathfinder #11 were each of a huge castle, and done at a 1" square = 5 feet ratio, would result in a total of nearly 300 square feet of map. A single 8x11 inch sheet of paper is about 0.6 square feet, so that'd still be 180 PAGES of maps for a single volume of Pathfinder.
Surely some of it would be generic... you just need the major areas in print map.
Okay the PC may go off some where else but that is where the generic map titles and pen on blank flipmat come in.
Just the major stuff.
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I don't expect battlemap renders of every location within an Adventure Path. However, key locations would be very handy indeed. Compare with WotC's Fantastic Locations or the maps they now include within their adventure products. One or two of these, double-sided poster-sized battlemaps, for each monthly chapter of Pathfinder, instead of the current map folio, would be awesome! In combination with the growing range of flip-maps, I think you'd have the needs of most (tabletop) GMs covered.
And if they can be generic enough to be re-usable, eg School Library, Manor House, Haunted Mansion, Abandoned Warehouse, Wharf/Dock etc, or have Pathfinder Society scenarios also refer to these maps to get further mileage from them, so much the better.
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WARNING: I'm an editor, not a math mastermind, and so it's possible some of the following numbers are off...
I don't think that printed 1" scale maps of every battle site in an adventure path is even remotely economically feasible. That would literally be several square yards of color printing.Correct; I mentioned on one of the many battlemat threads that are currently going that the maps in, for example, Pathfinder #11 were each of a huge castle, and done at a 1" square = 5 feet ratio, would result in a total of nearly 300 square feet of map. A single 8x11 inch sheet of paper is about 0.6 square feet, so that'd still be 180 PAGES of maps for a single volume of Pathfinder.
For a print product that size, we'd probably have to charge more than $30. For a print product that's actual maps of that size the cost would, I suspect, skyrocket.
We could do a PDF version, but that only puts the horror of printing out 180 pages of maps onto the customer.
And if you just want to project those files onto a table, or use them on a virtual table top... you'd best have a really fast connection to the internet to download them and a LOT of hard-drive space to store those files.
All that for one-sixth of the entire adventure path.
All that said... there's obviously a demand for something like this. While a full-resolution set of maps seems unfeasible... we haven't explored all those options yet. But it's not as simple as blowing up the file sizes and putting them on the internet, that's for sure.
1100 Pages from an inkjet printer with cartridge yields in the 30-50 pages range makes that projector look cost effective!
I only use minis for major set peice battles so maybe 2-3 of the maps in the folio get printed out and taped together. For now I run the map from the PDF through the Rasterbator (download the offline version for big files with low dot sizes) and print them cheaply on my laser printer or a friend's color laser.if you crank the dot size down to 2mm and fiddle with the scaling you can get the grid just about right. That said I would drop $30 on a pdf that did this for me. :)
My input.
- Schedule is key
If you release a map folio product at any time after the first adventure book is shipped, I don't want the folio. It's too late. There's a good chance I'll start playing shortly after the first book is out. A single folio product has to be released simultaneously with the first book. Alternately, break the folio into six smaller packages and ship them at the same time as the adventure books.
- Cost is important (to me)
Go figure, but I've got other ways of mapping. My group uses a box of useful leg bits to make walls, doors, caverns, altars, pillars... you name it. While I'd love to have a nice map underlay for encounters, I'm not going to pay $30 for a PDF of such. Printed... maybe. But if I have to print it myself and join a bunch of Letter size pages... that's too expensive. Maybe half that.
- Quality is NOT important (to me)
I'd be okay with grey-scale and reasonably low-res. I've done a few home-made blow-ups of existing maps, but it's hard because things like secret doors get marked. Something at least representative of the rooms would work just fine. Major structures. Walls. I can build the 3D detail on that myself.
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1) Yes.
2) $15-20 per adventure - with no keys, grids optional, and day/night variants when applicable. Oh, and possibly an occasional variant if things change a lot (before and after a major fire in the storyline, etc).
I think we have 2 major camps here, in terms of those who would be interested in battlemaps:
1) hard copy
2) electronic copy
Based on some of the calculations that James Jacobs and others have made, I think the only really viable option for full battlemaps of every AP would have to be digital versions in jpeg or some other format.
Virtual tabletop software would be ideal, because you could display a Honkin' Huge Map (HHM) pretty easily. Take, for example, the classic Temple of Elemental Evil, by Gary himself, Dungeon Level 1.
I made this map at only 100dpi, which is just slightly blurry if printed but looks great on a screen. It's 7000x9000 pixels, 8.5 MB in size, and if printed out at 1-inch scale would span 5 ft, 10 inches wide by 7 ft, 6 inches long! Yet when I ran it, we loaded the whole map, easily controlled fog of war, and were able to zoom in and out with ease. Download time varied, but only had to be done once.
In summary, I think that High Res (100-200 dpi) battlemaps will be viable either with VTs or in a limited size or series (maybe just 1 full printed battlemap per adventure).
Just my 2 cp.
This would save me a lot of time from using Dundjinni to make my own battlemaps... plus they would certainly look better than mine. I don't have the patience to place furniture and all the other goodies :)
For printable PDF's, I would definately buy them... but since I'm using my own ink to print them, I'd probably be interested around the $30.00 mark. (If we are talking about $30 for a whole Adventure Path of maps).
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I like the concept, but I have concerns on the execution.
1) I like the idea of PDF's, but I am not going to spend money on a PDF that has 100+ pages that I need to print out on my home printer. I would be interested in smaller PDF's that had maybe 20-30 pages. For example, I bought the Pythonese House for Skeleton Key Games to support my Ptolus campaign, and that worked out very well (this had ~36 pages)
2) Now I would think about sending off a PDF to a 3rd party to print out (FedEx Kinkos), as long as the price was right (less than 50 cents a page)
3) Currently, I am not using a computer based mapping tool, that supports VT. If I was I might be interested. However, I some reservations about how I would work a VT into a F2F game, and not have it feel like we were playing a computer game.
4) I am interested in preprinted smaller map packs that can be used for major encounters.
5) I like the idea of the 3D models that are being made by Worldworks, but I probably would only buy the ones that I am actually planning on using in game.
I think most folks like the concept, but the value proposition has to be there for it to make sense as a viable product. I am not sure that we are there yet.
Yes.
Whatever it costs. I am wealthy, and Paizo gets my gaming budget.
For virtual tabletop programs, with a projector or over the internet, 100dpi is perfectly good enough. A compressed jpg with that resolution is entirely manageable, and people can always scale it down if they need to. This shouldn't take up too much disk space or require huge file transfer times.
The extra value here comes from having the maps in electronic format, with aligned grids (or no grid at all), formatted at 100dpi and with the GM information removed. This should be trivial for the cartographer to do to their image file but is a royal pain for the customer to do to the final jpg. This also has the advantage of being cheap to produce as the additional work load is quite small (as long as the artist creates the map knowing that this is a required output format at the end).
The caveat here is that the initial map needs to be high enough resolution that a 100dpi battlemat doesn't blow out the resolution. As long as the base map file for print in the adventure path was created at 100 pixels per grid or larger, this will be fine. This is likely to be the case (or close to it) for maps created for print.
The second case is that of physically printed maps. It's clearly not feasible for Paizo to print and ship full scale battlemaps of all locations. Therefore it's really a question of selling the maps in a format that the customer can print if they chose to. If the customer is willing to print it, then a pdf of the same file as above sould suffice. 100dpi with 1 inch=1 square should suffice for tabletop play. Equally, it is easy to slice up a jpg into A4 or letter sized pages using posterazor, so there is minimal cost to producing a pdf of these images.
If people want 300dpi battlemaps (the standard resolution for quality image printing) then that is an entirely different prospect. The raw map files produced for the adventures will not have a resolution of 300 pixels per grid square (I would guess) and to produce an image of this scale is a very time and resource intensive task for the cartographer. I would guess this would fall into the category of an entirely separate commission and Paizo would have to pay extra (and this will get passed on in price to the customer). These maps would be glorious, but it's not really feasible.
As a result I would suggest a reasonable middle ground would be a pdf and zipped jpg archive of the maps from an adventure path at 100dpi and 1 grid=1 inch. These should have GM information removed. Then GMs can decide which maps they wish to print out for battlemap play. It's clear that some here would print them all, whereas others would print out only final encounters. This would also cover the VTT market as the images could be directly imported without needing to be altered first. It also has the advantage of not placing a significant extra load on the cartographer and thus not costing a lot of extra money to produce.
So:
1. Yes
2. $10 for a 100dpi pdf.
PS: I am a freeelance cartographer and user of virtual tabletop programs, so the claims I'm making have some foundation in experience. The next Map of Fantasy for Kobold Quarterly will do all of the above.
For what it’s worth, I currently use the PDF images straight out for Missgivings and scanned Thistletop (got in latter for the subscription) and scaled/printed them on 11x17 and 8x11. I used both greyscale and printing and got fair results and my players (and I) enjoyed them a lot.
The current quality of the images are not great but they do the job but just a little more quality would be great. I wouldn’t expect poster-quality for battle map pdf images and seriously some black and white options could go a long way for most. I just print the more interesting stuff in color.
Honestly I would expect the map folio pdf to have a little higher quality of images than it currently has but the structure of the layering (to remove the non-player info.) works well for me so far.
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PS: I am a freeelance cartographer and user of virtual tabletop programs, so the claims I'm making have some foundation in experience. The next Map of Fantasy for Kobold Quarterly will do all of the above.
I'm forming an LLC called Creative Gremlins that is designed to bring artists like you and I together and leverage our talents for companies and even sell digital goods individually. If you are interested, email me at: rivera.ga (at) gmail.com
Sounds interesting. I've sent you an email.
Even though I'm a printer guy (my name and all), I'm thinking about creating an adventure module or even a complete campaign arc, that's intended for use with VTT exclusively and try to market it commercially. A provided PDF would be only the text of the game. All maps regional and encounter scale would be for using VTs. Thus I'd even include map objects for the PCs as well as encounters.
I would think there would be lots more RPG products out there if small publishers spent their efforts creating VT targetted games, I think it has huge potential. And the cost for development far less than trying to create a hardcopy game supplement.
Because the product would never be intended for print, you could include super colorful art and maps. I see lots of RPG companies like Mongoose Publishing who have gone away from color maps and illustrations to books that have no color whatsoever, except the book covers - because of production costs. I see this as a disservice to their game players. If the goal was VT, this would never be an issue.
Anyway, my 2 cents.
GP
PS: how much whould I pay for battlemap sized pdfs of adventures?
I wouldn't - I'd expect them to be free downloads, so I could print them myself on large format. That's what I do for E.N. Publishing War of the Burning Sky maps - free download, print at my cost.
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PS: how much whould I pay for battlemap sized pdfs of adventures?
I wouldn't - I'd expect them to be free downloads, so I could print them myself on large format. That's what I do for E.N. Publishing War of the Burning Sky maps - free download, print at my cost.
But are they already scaled to 1" squares?
As for myself, I'd pay up to $20 for pdfs of a path I was running. I don't think I'd buy scaled maps of an AP I was just reading, but wouldn't think twice about getting one for anything I was running. The color laser printer at my office might try to stop me, but it wouldn't succeed.
One of their larger maps was 3 inches = 20 feet, but all the others were properly scaled at 1 inch = 5 feet at 100 ppi, which was quite good enough to print in large format.
These aren't low res sample versions, but the actual maps for the setting, and they don't cost the uses a dime. The idea is you pay cash for the adventure arc, but the maps should be included. Rather than force users to download big files at purchase. Users are free to download the maps at their own discretion, with no additional cost.
So basically, yes, they are.
Go to ENWorld, find them and download one for yourself, you'll see its a fact.
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1. Would you be interested in buying Map Folio PDFs with maps that print out to 1" printed = 5 ft map scale?
2. If so, at what's the highest price you'd pay for that?
1. PDFs of battle maps already scaled and ready to print and divided up so that I can lay them down in order would be perfect. I can use post-erazer and blow up and print them myself, but I just don't have the time.
I am really interested in the world works 3d stuff, especially if they can just be printed out and used flat if I don't have enough time to cut and glue.
2. I don't know. As a student right now, not a lot. Once I get a job, more.
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As someone else mentioned the battle map sized to 1"=5' is most important when using miniatures for an encounter guaranteed to have combat.
I like detailed maps of locations that players will explore, but often I would rather have 3d paintings of places where there are traps or interesting landmarks such as architecture that enhance the story.
Some of the encounters are optional and some can be fought on generic maps like those in the gamemastery product lines. But for the unique locations that have unusual dimensions or odd layouts that make combat more interesting I would pay a premium* price to get miniature scale battle ready maps. *(read $25-$45 depending on re-usability)
I just got the Second Darkness map folio and plan to pay whatever it takes to get the House Vonnarc and tower Solacas enlarged to miniature battle map scale. Cause no way am I gonna try drawing THOSE on my dry erase mat!
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But yeah it is a good idea. Essentially those marvelous maps in the APs are worthless. I don't know why Paizo or any other company pays to have cartographers create those maps, when a simple line drawing on a grid is all that is ever going to be used.Same reason we don't do stick figures for illustrations. Maps in a Paizo product need to do two things: they need to be clear and usable by the GM so he can run the game, and they need to look pretty. They need to do double duty, in other words, as both game aid and artwork.
Making maps full color helps that clarity, especially in helping to show what areas are water and to help make some things stand out more than they would in black and white. Also: they look professional. A crude, hasty map would look out of place and shabby and lame and unprofessional in pathfinder when held up to the rest of the contents.
I understand what you are saying. However, I like to go back and play a lot of 1st edition adventures, and they just have black and white grid maps that really are just as useful as the beautiful maps you guys make.
Also, at the game table 4 out of 5 people there see your gorgeous maps as crudely drawn line art. 4 out of 5 people never see you great art/maps, instead they see just the usual crap map they have seen for 20 years with improvement at all. And you pulled out crude hastily drawn map out of the ether. I never said that. Look at 1st edition maps. They convey ALL of the information a GM needs to effectively hand draw his battlemap.
I think that Paizo and other companies have convinced themselves it is too difficult and worthless to make the effort to produce a quality product that people really would use.
So I've seen a lot of discussion on this and in the interest of giving a singular voice to this and offering some marketing information to Paizo, please answer the following:
1. Would you be interested in buying Map Folio PDFs with maps that print out to 1" printed = 5 ft map scale?
2. If so, at what's the highest price you'd pay for that?Please note, this is not intended to be a discussion as to whether Paizo can do this at a certain cost or whether it makes business sense for Paizo to do this right now. This is simply a unified thread of feedback on the matter.
My answers:
#1 Yes
#2 $29.95 for the whole Map Folio.
If it wasn't priced competitively with Skeleton Key Games and others (Like 0one etc...) then no. Especially since they're for specific adventurers. That makes their resue much less likely.
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I don't think there's a demand for every map in the APs. I've only read RotRL so far, and I think some of the maps from that AP, such as the Clock Tower from #2 and Runeforge from #5, wouldn't be needed or feasibe as battle maps. However, maps of locations like Foxglove Manor would be amazing as room tiles to puzzle together, and battlemaps for places like Fort Rannick would be awesome.
I printed Foxglove manor at a 1 inch scale, glued it on cardboard and cut out each room as a jigsaw puzzle to be explored, and the cardboard, glue and inkjet cartridges must have cost me around $40, with enought left over for me to do the next few maps too. If a product like that was made available, I'd gladly pay the same.
This also took a lot of time, and you could see the pixels and the room numbers, so it wasn't really high quality. If this was made available as a 1 inch scale, high resolution pdf , I'd pay $5-10 dollars for a map like Foxglve Manor alone. I'd gladly pay $30 for a 1 inch pdf map folio with just the smaller maps from an entire AP.
One major problem with a PDF product, however, is piracy. A quick search found me all the AP pdfs, the map folios and the Pathfinder sourcebooks as pirate copies, easily availabe. They're not worth much to ppl compared to the books, but a product that meant to work as a pdf would be more tempting to copy, especially at a price range around $30.