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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9798812" data-attributes="member: 57073">Thanks for the kind words! And no rush. The travel guide will be there when you want to check it out.Based on that, I'm afraid you'll probably be disappointed in the artwork. Sadly, I was limited to stock art available for bulk purchase. To stay on budget, I could only pay $0.33 per image.That being said, I don't regret any of the book's unapologetically silly gnome and korobokuru illustrations. Those are spot-on, and I would use them again.(Side note: I'm very glad I downloaded most of my stock art back in 2019 or so in anticipation of starting this project. I tried searching for stock art a couple years later, and it was almost impossible to find anything usable under the trash heap of AI slop that's buried every large stock art marketplace in recent times.)I don't provide inline citations, but I do provide end notes! You'll find sources listed by section in Appendix D.The 3e FRCS is one of my favorites, as well! The travel guide started as an expanded version of the Character Regions section in that book. I later added trade routes as a framing device so a player or DM could reasonably explain how a character from Kara-Tur, for example, ended up adventuring somewhere else in the Realms.That's very good to know, thank you! I'll look into reducing the compression a bit to see if I can get higher-resolution maps without bloating the file size too much.(To answer your question, the layout was done in an older version of OpenOffice running on a 2017 MacBook. That set-up was too ancient to handle the pdf-conversion for a 700-page file, so I acquired the latest LibreOffice release for that step of the process. I did most of the image compression manually before inserting images in OpenOffice. LibreOffice compressed the images a bit further when I created the pdf.)</blockquote>

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