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jester47 said:
Not the first time either. From the beginning a lot of the maps have either been recycled ones (the dwarven fortress from Axe of the Dwarvish Lords for example) or useless "fluffy" maps.
"Look, here is a cool map of a village with five huts!!!!!. Just look at the textures and shading in this drawing!!!" Bah.
Out of all the maps they have put up there are probably only a half-dozen that are truely original *and* useful.
I figure there is some poor SOB at Wizard's who job it is to find something, anything, to put on the web every week. I'm waiting for them to start putting up the old blue maps from the modules in the 80's.
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And whats wrong with the old blue maps?bushfire said:
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The usefulness (or lack thereof) of modern maps has been a subject of some mutterings in our gaming group. Those in Dungeon, for instance, are very pretty, but often far less useful than a simple black and white line drawing would have been. For one thing, it's impossible to photcopy a version for player use (since any white-out of map notes will be blatantly visible) and even photocopying a version for yourself - which is much easier than constantly flipping back through pages to find it - sometimes results in a murky and incomprehensible mess.
Todd Gamble's Cartographica has similar problems - if a second volume is done, I'm hoping for black & white line art, instead.
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On the other hand, the map-a-weeks are free, so I have few complaints about them. I've been able to use several in the past, and the next game I plan to run uses four of them.
The usefulness (or lack thereof) of modern maps has been a subject of some mutterings in our gaming group. Those in Dungeon, for instance, are very pretty, but often far less useful than a simple black and white line drawing would have been. For one thing, it's impossible to photcopy a version for player use (since any white-out of map notes will be blatantly visible) and even photocopying a version for yourself - which is much easier than constantly flipping back through pages to find it - sometimes results in a murky and incomprehensible mess.
Todd Gamble's Cartographica has similar problems - if a second volume is done, I'm hoping for black & white line art, instead.
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On the other hand, the map-a-weeks are free, so I have few complaints about them. I've been able to use several in the past, and the next game I plan to run uses four of them.
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