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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7727251" data-attributes="member: 7006">I have to imagine the reason that they don't make poster maps of the locations in their adventure paths is because they are letting the cartographers of said maps (Mike Schley in most cases) sell digital copies of all of them.&nbsp; Were WotC to sell printed copies of them it'd probably dry up most of Mike's sales.Yeah, making us print our own copies of Mike's digital prints can be a pain (either having to go to a print shop to make full posters or to print them individually on 8.5x11s and cut/tape them together) but it's probably part of their agreement.Also on a similar note... I'm sure part of the reason why they also don't print all the maps is because some of the maps are just way too big at a 1 inch per square scale.&nbsp; I mean, I ended up printing the Amber Temple maps for Curse of Strahd on my laser printer... and at a 2' x 2' printing of each floor only got the squares to slightly over a half-inch big.&nbsp; Had I tried for a full inch per square the maps would have been over 4' by 4' which is much bigger than your typical poster map they have sold in the past.&nbsp; With the number of maps in CoS (all the lands, all the buildings, all the floors of each building), it probably would have been prohibitively expensive to make posters of all of them to sell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7727251, member: 7006"] I have to imagine the reason that they don't make poster maps of the locations in their adventure paths is because they are letting the cartographers of said maps (Mike Schley in most cases) sell digital copies of all of them. Were WotC to sell printed copies of them it'd probably dry up most of Mike's sales. Yeah, making us print our own copies of Mike's digital prints can be a pain (either having to go to a print shop to make full posters or to print them individually on 8.5x11s and cut/tape them together) but it's probably part of their agreement. Also on a similar note... I'm sure part of the reason why they also don't print all the maps is because some of the maps are just way too big at a 1 inch per square scale. I mean, I ended up printing the Amber Temple maps for [I]Curse of Strahd[/I] on my laser printer... and at a 2' x 2' printing of each floor only got the squares to slightly over a half-inch big. Had I tried for a full inch per square the maps would have been over 4' by 4' which is much bigger than your typical poster map they have sold in the past. With the number of maps in CoS (all the lands, all the buildings, all the floors of each building), it probably would have been prohibitively expensive to make posters of all of them to sell. [/QUOTE]

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