Beggars can't be choosers but...

[Imruphel]

The latest free map gallery from WotC (Barrow of the Forgotten King) has me again wondering why they bother. After all, the maps are so damn small that they serve no useful purpose. As per the thread title I accept that we're getting them for free but wouldn't it make more sense for the maps to be, how shall I put it, useful?

Any thoughts?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm not sure I get the idea of giving away free maps from a module at all.

 

[GAAAHHH]

Do you want them sized for use with miniatures? I generally just draw out the maps on a battlemat, or use Dungeon Tiles for this.

 

[Maggan]

The latest free map gallery from WotC (Barrow of the Forgotten King) has me again wondering why they bother. After all, the maps are so damn small that they serve no useful purpose. As per the thread title I accept that we're getting them for free but wouldn't it make more sense for the maps to be, how shall I put it, useful?

Any thoughts?

Can't you just change the size in an imaging tool and then print a bigger version. It'll be pixelated, but it will be bigger, and I think it would work ok.

(let's try)

At least it worked for the forest map. Didn't really help with the dungeon map.

A bit higher resolution would be nice.

 

[Imruphel]

Yeah the dungeon map is the main offender. There is no way to simply resize that. Its resolution is really, really poor.

 

[Zaukrie]

I agree. I have no idea why they do this. I've asked on the WotC boards, several times, for them to put them into a scale that we can actually use....

 

[WhatGravitas]

Yeah the dungeon map is the main offender. There is no way to simply resize that. Its resolution is really, really poor.

Ditto. I'm a bit "annoyed" (okay, it's free stuff, so I'm not really annoyed), that it was the "Map of the Week" - usually that stuff was bigger and actually useful - they should've stuffed into the "Map Gallery" articles, where the show-off maps usually go.