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<blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 2051862" data-attributes="member: 13637">Grrr. This just ticks me off, to levels entirely out of proportion to the offense, but this is driving me crazy. I dealt with maps a lot when I was in the Navy. In fact, for two years, I worked in our chart vault, giving out maps, working with maps, mapping things, etc. I know a little bit about maps.And I can tell you that the one, absolutely critical piece of information you need for a map is a scale (well and of course, not having canals in a desert city, but I digress.) Without a scale, your map is damn near useless, because you don't know how far away things are. Is the continent the size of North America? Is it the size of Indiana? Is it the size of the palm of my hand? Who knows if the map has no SCALE on it? How long will it take to get from place A to place B? You can't tell if you have no SCALE. It is a pretty freakin' simple mapping concept.For reasons I do not understand. Sword and Sorcery does not put a scale on their Warcraft maps. There is no scale in the main book, there is no scale in this books. What in the world are they thinking? What could you use those pretty maps for, without a SCALE? Sure, it says Ironforge city is a massive underground city. But without a scale, we don't know whether massive means a mile across, 10 miles across, 100 miles across. There is no way to tell! This is just stupid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thormagni, post: 2051862, member: 13637"] Grrr. This just ticks me off, to levels entirely out of proportion to the offense, but this is driving me crazy. I dealt with maps a lot when I was in the Navy. In fact, for two years, I worked in our chart vault, giving out maps, working with maps, mapping things, etc. I know a little bit about maps. And I can tell you that the one, absolutely critical piece of information you need for a map is a scale (well and of course, not having canals in a desert city, but I digress.) Without a scale, your map is damn near useless, because you don't know how far away things are. Is the continent the size of North America? Is it the size of Indiana? Is it the size of the palm of my hand? Who knows if the map has no SCALE on it? How long will it take to get from place A to place B? You can't tell if you have no SCALE. It is a pretty freakin' simple mapping concept. For reasons I do not understand. Sword and Sorcery does not put a scale on their Warcraft maps. There is no scale in the main book, there is no scale in this books. What in the world are they thinking? What could you use those pretty maps for, without a SCALE? Sure, it says Ironforge city is a massive underground city. But without a scale, we don't know whether massive means a mile across, 10 miles across, 100 miles across. There is no way to tell! This is just stupid. [/QUOTE]

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