Mike Schley's MASSIVE Forgotten Realms Map From SCAG!

Cartographer Mike Schley has posted the enormous map of Northwest Faerûn from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. It's poster sized (10,200 x 6,600 pixels, or a 34-page PDF) or you can get the Artists Print version shipped to you in the form of a poster map. "This new absolutely massive map of D&D's Sword Coast and Northwestern Faerûn was commissioned by Wizards of the Coast to accompany their 5th Edition D&D game supplement Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. lead your adventures through his exhaustive map of The Forgotten Realms' most Iconic lands and make sure to let it inspire some truly fantastic storytelling."
The print version ($10-$54, depending on size) is here, and the digital version ($10) is here.

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[graves3141]

[MENTION=6795434]Silthen[/MENTION]: I am sorry that you're disappointed that WotC didn't meet your expectations. I'll admit that I've been disappointed by WotC over the years. I've learned not to expect much from them. Even so, I do not feel entitled to have what expectations I do have met. If I don't get what I want, oh well. WotC has made it pretty clear from the start that 5e is the DIY edition of D&D. Looks like that includes the printing of maps.

Yep. It'll just be a flat $10 for the digital files.

Awesome, thanks man!

Also, I was thinking... what chance do you guys think that the D&D Extra Life thing will hit $100,000 bucks, which would make the FR map free for everyone? The total keeps creeping up and as of right now, there's about seven grand left to go so I'm thinking it might be a possibility. Let's assume the goal is reached in like 3 weeks or so, does that mean we'll get the same map for free that Schley is selling right now on his site? Do you think the free version will be different somehow? Maybe a little lower resolution or something?

 

[Shasarak]

Because the benefits to WOTC didn't outweigh the costs

To be fair, when I make a purchase I do not usually consider the benefits to WotC.

But in any case, I am considering getting the digital map and making up a poster map just so I can do 1995 all over again.

 

[EthanSental]

Wow, are we entitled to it? A map since it was in previous editions? How about a paycheck from the govt from various entitlement programs since that's what started this train of thought. It's so prevalent our society (in the USA at least) and is disgusting to me as it will never end apparently.

Sorry, tangent, but something that has bugged me for a while and reading that set me off.

 

[Shasarak]

Wow, are we entitled to it? A map since it was in previous editions? How about a paycheck from the govt from various entitlement programs since that's what started this train of thought. It's so prevalent our society (in the USA at least) and is disgusting to me as it will never end apparently.

Sorry, tangent, but something that has bugged me for a while and reading that set me off.

Sorry but Hasbro is not a Banking consortium so most likely will not be receiving any government subsidies.

 

[Mistwell]

No, actually it DOES mean we are entitled to those maps!

I appreciate your honesty in admitting you are expressing a sense of entitlement.

Of course, it's totally unfounded. You're not entitled to anything. But, I appreciate that you're up front about where you stand.

When you sell a product for so long in a certain fashion, the consumer EXPECTS the same or better going forward.

I don't. I didn't expect for a moment any fold out maps from this product. You don't speak for me, and you don't speak for all consumers. You speak for yourself.

I refuse to believe that a four-panel map would really cost them all that much to include for an already overpriced book

You now how we can all tell you didn't really think it was overpriced? You bought it. The definition of overpriced is the line drawn between buying it or not buying it. If it's overprice, you don't buy it. That's what it means - over the price at which one would be willing to spend that sum of money for that product.

To be honest, I WOULD buy one of Mike Schley's maps and be done with it, but $136 for the size I wnat only adds insult to injury.

Nobody is insulted, and nobody is injured. Nobody is forcing you to buy anything and nobody was entitled to anything despite you feeling like you were.

Also, it looks like his map did have a scale on it, but it just got cut off on the map included in the book. How hard would it have been to include it somewhere? No one has really offered any information that is useful to me. If you guys are so smart, how about coming up with a solution for those of us without a FR map that isn't happy with the book and doesn't want to spend a fortune on a poster-sized map. I admit that I haven't read every single post on this thread, but those of you that have replied to my posts have been less than helpful.

How about all the guys who said they bought the $10 version, took it to a place like staples, and had it printed blown-up there at a small price?

 

[Mistwell]

To be fair, when I make a purchase I do not usually consider the benefits to WotC.

But in any case, I am considering getting the digital map and making up a poster map just so I can do 1995 all over again.

He asked why they did it that way. That's the answer to his question. You don't have to consider the benefits to WOTC, but WOTC has to consider the benefits to WOTC.

 

[Shasarak]

He asked why they did it that way. That's the answer to his question. You don't have to consider the benefits to WOTC, but WOTC has to consider the benefits to WOTC.

That is a answer. Has anyone actually ever asked them to make a pull out map?

 

[pukunui]

A thought occurred to me earlier. During 4e's run, WotC put out two FR books. One was a campaign guide designed for DMs. The other was a player's guide designed for players. The campaign guide came with a pull-out map. The player's guide did not.

This new Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide strikes me as being more like 4e's Forgotten Realms Player's Guide than it does either the 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting or the 4e Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide.

Yes, the SCAG has setting info in it, but it's presented in a player-friendly way. The SCAG is not *really* a campaign guide. It's a player's guide. The setting info is mainly there to help players get a sense of the world and help them ground their characters in it.

When you think about it that way, it makes sense that there's no pull-out map included.

If WotC ever get around to releasing a full-blown campaign setting book for the Realms that covers all of Faerûn, at the bare minimum, rather than just one quarter of it, then they might very well include a pull-out map with it.

 

[Nikosandros]

I disagree, for only $10 more I got a shiny new PHB that was twice as big and used way more ink and paper than it would take for a map.

However, the PHB is expected to sell far more copies and so it has more favorable economy of scale.

 

[hawkeyefan]

I bought my SCAG on Amazon for $30, which gives me $10 to put toward a map. I don't need one, but I like it, and I feel like $22 is a fair price for a quality print.

I can understand the criticism of WotC not including a fold out map, but I also feel that most buyers would know a removable map was not included. And in the case of a shrink wrapped copy...I'd say to ask the store owner or do some research online to find out if there was such a map.