Adventure Path map folio? Player friendly

[galvatron42]

Are the maps in th folios meant to be handed out to players, or do they have the same important location markings from the books? I hope I am asking this right. As an example: the map on page 27 of Haunting of Harrowstone. Notice it has R5 listed on the map, which is something the players should find on their own. Handing this map as is to a player would say... " Hey, there is something in these 2 areas. You should go look around there." Will the folio map of this location have the same markings?

I know I could draw the map myself, leaving out the markings for R5, but my drawing is terrible, and the players would miss out on the awesome map that has been provided. Sorry for such a long post asking such a simple question. Thanks for your help.

[Erik Freund]

If you have the PDF, you can extract the image without any of the tags. (Google around for a PDF/Image extractor, there's lots of free ones.)

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[galvatron42]

Thanks a lot. I'm not very good at computers, but I'll play around with it and see what I can do. I take it this means the maps in the folio have the same markings? Thanks again for the help.

[Papa-DRB]

Most of the early Map Folio's were just reprints of the maps in the AP. I don't remember when they changed, since I stopped after the 1st AP.

However, the Kingmaker Map Folio has only markings on it that make sense to have. There are 6 maps (4 panels each). The Greenbelt map has Oleg's on it, but that is essentially where the PCs start. The other three overview maps have the major city on them, but that should be known to the players by the time they would use that map. The remaining two maps are city type maps of known places.

So for the Kingmaker AP, the Map Folio is player friendly. I don't know about any of the others. Hopefully someone who has the Carrion Crown one can comment on it after it comes out.

-- david
Papa.DRB

[Scribbling Rambler]

All of the Map Folios prior to Kingmaker were mostly reprints of the maps in the adventure. Each came with a couple of poster maps. IIRC, Runelords had Sandpoint & Varisia, CotCT had Korvosa & Varisia, COT has Westcrown. I can't remember what came in SD & LoF, but each had a city central to the adventure. The poster maps were player-friendly, but the others were not (included keys, secret doors).

Kingmaker was the 4 poster maps mentioned above.
Serpent's Skull was 3 poster maps of key large locations.
Both were extremely player-friendly.