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Hello everyone! Sorry about that. My site moved hosting and they sort of got lost in the shuffle. But someone emailed me and I have restored the files. So you should be able to grab them again.
http://www.kencyclopedia.com/maps/Westcrown.jpg
http://www.kencyclopedia.com/maps/WestcrownNoText.jpg
Have fun skulking around Westcrown!
Absolutely fantastic!!!!
Thank you, Sean!
Very nice map. Thank you.
I am running CoT at present - just up to the Cornucopia in "The Sixfold Trial".
So while I wish I had this earlier, I am very glad I have it now.
Awesome work.
I am gonna take the map to a copy place and have it blown up... it is an amazing job! have a couple questions though why is there two walcourts and two pegasi bridges?
As for the two Walcourts:
•The city gazetteer in Bastards of Erebus gives the location within the Rego Crua/Blood Sector on the mainland.•Mother of Flies gives the location on Westcrown Island, in the Blade Sector.
Probably an error on Paizo's part, but given that there are multiple shrines and temples to Aroden within the same city, it's quite possible that there are multiple buildings with the semi-generic name "Walcourt", as a bit of disinformation.
The Two Pegasi Bridges is actually correct; the city gazetteer lists them as a pair of bridges (p. 57).
Very Excellent!
I'm going to use the Block Posters website (http://www.blockposters.com/) and upload the map and have it print out on multiple pieces of paper so I can put it up kind of like a collage.
PosteRazor works really well too. It's a free program. I used it to print out my world map for my homebrew as 2x2 sheets of paper.
This is a truly great map, Sean, thanks tons for making it!
IMO a couple places are mislabled or mis-sized (some of the Paregios are, IMO, too small or not in quite the right area, and a confusion between Regio and Paregios, which are their subsets; IMO the Korradath complex of buildings would cover the entire northern part of the island it is on - especially that smallish harbor-area, and thus not be cut off from that with a different row of buildings, and IMO the Vaneo Drovenge is larger than indicated, because it would outshine the Vaneos of the other aristocratic families, and I think the mile scale makes the city a bit *too* big - but this is far better than the usual from too many published maps, which make cities too *small*).
But I'm a mapophile, and thus always have quibbles about maps, especially city maps. Paizo generally does decent ones. . .Westcrown is one of their better designs. . .and your map is absolutely superb. I've been RPing since 1980, I've seen lots of cities come and go (starting with the Invicible Overlord & World Emperor city maps), and the map you made for Westcrown is at or near the tops, IMO. As a map it joins Thyatis City* in making Westcrown a place where, just by looking at the map, it kindles the fantasy/adventure imagination.
*(Which was printed with a mislabled map scale, itself; it should have been 1" = 1000 yards, but the map was labled at 1" = 1000 feet).
That's awesome, thank you!
Another vote for "you're the best ever!"
Seriously, a resource like this is fantastic and I look forward to making good use of it. I eagerly anticipate your work in the future.
Many thanks,
Johnny D.
Just started the AP with my group and I'm very thankful for your wonderful map. Thank you very much!
Excellent Maps, a great help for the AP!
Also a big thanks to the Map maker. I used it since day 1 of the AP and now that the players want to actually rule Westcrown, I need even more your map to use the Kingdom building rules. :)
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It is indeed a vast improvement over the stock map and a huge amount of work, for which the author deserves massive kudos... though there are a few issues with it, sadly.
Firstly, the three "Paregos" have been coloured and labelled as individual portions of the map - which may be how the GM ran it (we are all free to modify, after all), but the intent of the Westcrown gazetteer is that each Parego is comprised of sectors or "Rego"s. I.e. the region coloured as Parego Dospera is just part of Rego Cader, and the the large region coloured as Parego Spera is just part of Rego Scripa.
Secondly, he has included Walcourt twice - though to be fair, it was listed as being on the island (Parego Regicona) in the Bastards of Erebus gazetteer and then moved to Rego Crua in Mother of Flies.
Third, while he has added a scale (Hurrah!), it is a little wonky. By the scale used this Westcrown dwarfs even Xin Shalast, which it really, really shouldn't. Indeed, if you work by the 20-40k people per square mile, Westcrown should be no 3-5 square miles in total. At a minimum, the scale should be halved (i.e. the "0 - 1 - 2 miles" should be "0 - 1/2 - 1 mile").
If you take these on board, it is quite definitely usable, and much easier to corroborate to the descriptions in the books :)