D&D 5E Finding non-DM maps for Princes of the Apocalypse

[machineelf]

I'm looking for where Schley sells or offers downloads of the player version (non-DM) of the maps for the campaign. Does anyone know?

 

[Fildrigar]

http://mikeschley.zenfolio.com/p763166286

 

[machineelf]

So I had checked his website there before, but it looks like those are the DM maps, with secret locations marked on them. Am I wrong?

 

[Fildrigar]

Click on the maps. They come with both player and DM versions.

 

[Bagpuss]

I've bought the Starter Set maps, the DM one is normally a .jpg while the Player map is in .pdf format, I'm not sure why the difference. I'm happy with the resolution but I've not tried printing them to scale as yet.

 

[Uller]

I've bought the Starter Set maps, the DM one is normally a .jpg while the Player map is in .pdf format, I'm not sure why the difference. I'm happy with the resolution but I've not tried printing them to scale as yet.

I have. Cragmaw keep requires printing as a 3x3 on standard paper. Thundertree was 5x5. Wave Echo Cave is too big (one square equlas 10') but I did print it as a 2x2 and am letting my players us it rather than map it old school style. I've found that requiring them to map it by hamd results in over half of them having no idea how things are laid out. UPS stores have some decent pricing on poster sized prints. I might try that (my kids use the 4e battle maps to play with their toys on so they would get reused).

 

[Bagpuss]

I have. Cragmaw keep requires printing as a 3x3 on standard paper.

How did you work out the scaling? His website tells you about scaling via the number of pixels, but the player map is only in the PDF not the .jpg format so I can't open that in photoshop or gimp.

If I do print to scale as a poster for the PDF then Cragmaw works out at 4x8, A4 sheets, which is massive. Have and A1 printer at work, but even that is 4 sheets of that. Seems a bit off.

I thought the PDF might be properly scaled, however Cragmaw shout be about 10 inches by 30 inches. The PDF has it listed as by more than 43 by 62.

EDIT: Just done a test print, using A3 poster layout at 50% scale on the PDFs, and it uses 4 sheets (2 by 2) and works out exactly to scale. A4 (which is like US letter, but annoyingly different enough to cause all sorts of issues in some cases), would be 8 sheets (4 by 4).

Which means if I did it A1 it would on one sheet with no sticking together.

 

[pukunui]

... the player map is only in the PDF not the .jpg format so I can't open that in photoshop or gimp.

For the record, it is possible to open PDFs in photoshop. I've done it many times. (I'm still using CS3, so it's not a particularly new feature, either.)

 

[Uller]

I just open them in acrobat reader. Select/copy the image and paste it into paint. Can easily print from there. I'm sure gimp/Photoshop can handle that too.