FFoD Vol 6 - The Starship map is in the Interactive Map Pack! THANK YOU!!

[Steel_Wind]

So we customers can be a b##+*y, pain-in-the-ass ever complaining group of customers, I know.

Still, it is gratifying to know that Paizo pays attention to the grumbling.

The problem, hitherto, (which was really just this past AP and the one before, tbh, as the Interactive Map Packs were not in place for Starfinder prior to that) was that the ship maps on the back page were left out.

While it is true that Starship Maps don't contain the secret door info that was, once-upon-a-time, one of the main reasons for Interactive Map Packs in the first place, their utility has grown beyond that narrow use case. In particular, the Map Packs ability to turn off the grid allows for easier importing of the art into a VTT -- and we never want grids on maps for *final* VTT use as that just makes it harder to use them. (We do need the grids temporarily for scaling purposes to get them into the VTT though).

Anyways, bottom line, Paizo listened to us and with Vol 6 of FFoD, they included The Risen in the Interactive Maps too.

So very happy for this development. Thanks to Jason and Jason (and their other brother Jason, too) and all the non-Jasons at Paizo for this.

[BigNorseWolf]

A lot of the past year seems to have everyone moving online, along with folks realizing "Oh... THATS why they were complaining about that..."

[Yakman]

is this in a separate map pack like the Pathfinder APs have? or is there just one pdf with the functions of the map pack [turning off grids and labels]?

or am i just reading this entirely wrong?

[Steel_Wind]

Yakman wrote:

is this in a separate map pack like the Pathfinder APs have? or is there just one pdf with the functions of the map pack [turning off grids and labels]?

or am i just reading this entirely wrong?

Separate Map pack like with PF. Starfinder added this feature to the Starfinder AP PDF package last Fall.

The ship maps had not been included in there though. Now they are.

[Yakman]

Steel_Wind wrote:

Yakman wrote:

is this in a separate map pack like the Pathfinder APs have? or is there just one pdf with the functions of the map pack [turning off grids and labels]?

or am i just reading this entirely wrong?

Separate Map pack like with PF. Starfinder added this feature to the Starfinder AP PDF package last Fall.

The ship maps had not been included in there though. Now they are.

ah, okay.

I bought my first AP at the start of the year [Threefold Conspiracy] and I was distinctly put out by the lack of a separate map pack like in Pathfinder. I've since gotten it to work, and it's not a massive challenge for my group, but nice to know that Starfinder is getting the same bells and whistles as Pathfinder.

[Red Metal]

Anyone else have the problem that the maps for event 4 and 5 are cut off?

I also think the maps for events 4 and 5 got switched around at some point; event 4 is a starship combat, but its map is a square grid, while event 5 is a normal combat, but uses a hex grid. In addition, each event mentions features that are absent in its map but present in the other map (event 4 has dense green fog and a tower, event 5 has tall grass and floating rocks)