D&D General You Can Now Get Mike Schley's Official Map of Faerûn

3891wcr · Thursday at 3:56 PM

mamba said:
that is the preview size, as are the 1.7MB. What you actually get is

that post also has a small part of the map included, so you can see it

I purchased on the strength of this, and it is absolutely usable and a good deal for $8. With a little time in an image editor, I'll be able to customize which labels are shown and which are hidden. Good purchase.

SkidAce · Thursday at 4:28 PM

3891wcr said:
I purchased on the strength of this, and it is absolutely usable and a good deal for $8. With a little time in an image editor, I'll be able to customize which labels are shown and which are hidden. Good purchase.

How? Did the map you purchased have layers?

Jolly Ruby · Thursday at 4:46 PM

SkidAce said:
How? Did the map you purchased have layers?

The map don't have layers, but it's presented as three versions:

Map with labels (names for places, regions, geographic formations, etc) and markers (marking towns, cities, dungeons, sites of interest, roads, trails, etc).
Map with markers, but no labels.
Fully unlabeled and unmarked map.

Each of these are present in three resolutions: hi-res, low-res and adapted for vtts.

If you layer the three versions on a image editor like CPS or PS you can use the eraser tool to show only what you want to.

3891wcr · Friday at 6:21 PM

Jolly Ruby said:
The map don't have layers, but it's presented as three versions:

Map with labels (names for places, regions, geographic formations, etc) and markers (marking towns, cities, dungeons, sites of interest, roads, trails, etc).

Map with markers, but no labels.

Fully unlabeled and unmarked map.

Each of these are present in three resolutions: hi-res, low-res and adapted for vtts.

If you layer the three versions on a image editor like CPS or PS you can use the eraser tool to show only what you want to.

Exactly. You open the three maps as layers into a single image, with the labeled map on the top layer. Then you erase the labels you don't want, revealing the pristine map in the lower layer. I used GIMP. If you want to remove one of the map markers (the circles, dots, and squares), you have to delete it from the top two layers.

The one difficulty I've run into is that there are a few places where map markers that I want to erase overlap roads that I don't want to erase. Since there's no version of the maps included here that has the roads but not the markers, this is tricky. Luckily, the maps actually do have the roads invisibly embedded as paths, which allows you to get a good result with some patience, but it requires a bit more technical know-how.

Weird Dave · 2026-01-17T17:37:03+0000

Wow! I got the 48” x 72” vinyl banner map less than a week after ordering it, and it does look very cool. Here it is laid out on my game table (apologies for the glare), a little washed out color wise but very legible and clean. Love it!

Zardnaar · 2026-01-17T18:16:40+0000

Weird Dave said:
Wow! I got the 48” x 72” vinyl banner map less than a week after ordering it, and it does look very cool. Here it is laid out on my game table (apologies for the glare), a little washed out color wise but very legible and clean. Love it!

How much was that?

Henadic Theologian · 2026-01-17T20:25:20+0000

Zardnaar said:
Might have to buy the pdf.

Did some experimenting.
A0 Darksun map. DM screen and A3 art for scale.
View attachment 427160
Cost less than 9 usd.
Free beyond map Faerun. 40 cents to print A3.

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Darksun+Faerun A3 test runs.

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So nice big map will be 8 usd for the pdf and around 9 to print.

Some of my players want maps as well so can get price per unit down.

Yeah I agree, I'm sorry, but I'm not paying Mike's prices for a paper map, when I can just get a better print using more durable materials from various companies. I get supporting artists and all that, but I don't have unlimited resources to spend on something that fragile.

Zardnaar · 2026-01-17T20:31:14+0000

Henadic Theologian said:
Yeah I agree, I'm sorry, but I'm not paying Mike's prices for a paper map, when I can just get a better print using more durable materials from various companies. I get supporting artists and all that, but I don't have unlimited resources to spend on something that fragile.

Its postage is the killer. Cloth or vinyl I expect it to be expensive.

EthanSental · 2026-01-17T21:38:16+0000

Zardnaar said:
How much was that?

The site show that size vinyl banner is $135.

Thanks to this thread and some sharing the cloth map site earlier in the thread.

Zardnaar · 2026-01-17T21:48:43+0000

EthanSental said:
The site show that size vinyl banner is $135.

Thanks to this thread and some sharing the cloth map site earlier in the thread.

I co

EthanSental said:
The site show that size vinyl banner is $135.

Thanks to this thread and some sharing the cloth map site earlier in the thread.

Website was hard to use. I think mine defaulted to paper but wasnt 100% sure.

With postage the maps around 4 hardcovers here. It woukd be a glorious item.

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