New Map Purchase for Society GM

[Val'bryn2]

Okay, I know there was a list of what maps are used for what scenario, but it hasn't been updated since early season 3, at least the one I found. I'm a relatively new GM for PFS, looking to buy another map or two, and wondering what people find to be the most used maps for Society play, to know what my next purchase should be. I have the following:

Map Packs: Dungeon Dangers, Wizard’s Tower, Forest Trails, Jungle, Starship Corridors, Waterfront, Ambush Sites

Flip Mats: Country Inn, Desert Ruins, Keep, Urban Tavern, Ancient Dungeon, Tech Dungeon, City Gates, Necropolis. And of course the blank flip map for drawing on.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

[Artoo]

If you can find it the Darklands map is the one that comes up the most. But it's currently out of print.

Watch Station is also one that gets used somewhat often, but is also unfortunately out of print.

The Theatre map seems to still be available and is used moderately often.

[Silbeg]

Michael Eshleman's excellent spreadsheet of maps used

[Val'bryn2]

Thanks, I've been looking for something like that. It's a lot of help.

[The Fox]

I have found it helpful to have a second blank flip mat (24"×30") that I have cut into three pieces— 20"×24"; 10"×16"; and 8"×10".

The largest piece works for many small dungeons (and has two sides) or for extending my uncut map. The medium sized piece works well for many large buildings. And the smallest piece I use for small buildings, or—if it is available—I can write on it as "scratch paper" with wet-erase markers to keep track of hp and other GM notes.

To cut it, orient the mat so that the long sides are on the left and right and the short sides are top and bottom. Cut off the top three panels*, a section that is 10"×24". The other part will be 20"×24"; set that aside. Cut one panel off of the 10"×24" section, and you will be left with a 10"×16" piece and a 8"×10" piece. Voila.

* By "panels", I mean the 8"×10" areas bounded by folds.

[Qstor]

Flip Mat Ship is used in one scenario.

Plus is awesome for a home game too if the PCs travel over an ocean. I'd suggest picking it up since its been reprinted.

[Avatar-1]

While we're talking about maps, here's a guide to printing and sizing maps from a PDF (like, say, a scenario).