Skull and Shackles Map Question


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I am getting ready to run the Skull and Shackles adventure Path 1-6 and I don't want to draw out all the maps on my dnd mat. Can anyone recommend how I can have these printed so we can play directly off the map? I see they have the PDF of the interactive map to buy but can I print that out after I am done altering it? Thanks for your time and advice.


This is a popular topic you can find many answers to in the Advice forum.

However, this is the quick and dirty way: using a PDF viewer, select a 7"x10" area and Print to Fit your average paper stock. Repeat this process, overlapping slightly for when you tape/glue/adhere the sheets together.

Or take the PDF to a printer and tell them the dimensions you want the map to be, and have them print one large map-like sheet. This may be costly, and take some explanation as to what things like RPGs and such are, unless you're lucky enough to come across one who games.


What I've found I've had to do with Pathfinder ship maps, often, is re-draw them, period.

Don't get me wrong; I adore the system, especially Pathfinder 1e (still! :D), and always enjoy it, especially as a player. But their ship maps are often atrocious. X-P

Take the Wormwood, for example: 30' amidships (side to side) for the Upper Deck, 30' for the Main Deck, 30' for the Middle/Cargo Deck, 30' for the Lower Deck (crew cabin), and 20' for the Bilges. We have things like that on land, too; we call them bathtubs. X-P

Also, there's this weird bulge at the bow (front) and the stern (rear), that never get explained on the lower levels in like a cut-away view or something that would make sense. About the only vessels that have anything like that are submarines. X-P Any bulges in a ship anywhere during the Age of Sail would be on the sides, not at front and aft.

What I did was: a) got rid of the weird bulges and flattened out the stern a bit more (because you want your bow to be as hydrodynamic as possible, and your stern fairly broad); b) broadened the Upper and Main Decks to 40' across and kept the rest of the widths; c) had to lengthen the ship to 120' overall to keep something like the 3.33:1 ratio of length-width it had originally (it's amazing what adding just another 5' on each side will do to things); and d) wound up scrapping my original battle-map drawings and exchanging them for graph paper and regular markers, just for the outlines of the outer and inner walls of the ship. Any details, especially of stuff the players aren't supposed to know about, really, I'll do as separate pieces of paper of the appropriate shape. :)

And trust me; I'm no artist at all, especially without fancy drawing tools, but armed with enough erasers, even I can manage this, so no doubt, you can, too. :)

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