Ravenloft Tactical Maps

[Beginning of the End]

Did WotC ever make the tactical maps from Expedition to Ravenloft available at a resolution that they could be printed off and actually used at the gaming table? (Or were they ever commercially packaged into one of the map packs they've produced?)

I don't understand why they would spend all that money producing beautiful maps which serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever, but apparently they did...?

 

[Stormonu]

Not that I'm aware of - I would have snatched them up if I knew they existed.

I have, however, been trying to work on creating printable floorplans at 1" scale either through Dunjinni or CC3. Problem I'm having with Dunjinni is the floor map won't fit on a single "sheet".

 

[Thanael]

Here's a player map: Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Player's Map - RPGnet Forums I think this is the same map


I don't know if these are different from the ones in EtCR: Map-A-Week: Castle Ravenloft and Complete Mage, Part 2


geropress in this thread had a larger players map up on photobucket but alas it is gone now. Maybe a PM to him would yield an uptodate link...

 

[Jhaelen]

I don't understand why they would spend all that money producing beautiful maps which serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever, but apparently they did...?

It's for nostalgic reasons. They wanted the maps to appeal to people who loved the maps in the original module. I have no idea if that decision was good or bad for the product's sales but I don' think it was unreasonable.

 

[Beginning of the End]

Here's a player map: Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Player's Map - RPGnet Forums I think this is the same map

I don't know if these are different from the ones in EtCR: Map-A-Week: Castle Ravenloft and Complete Mage, Part 2

None of those are tactical maps.

It's for nostalgic reasons. They wanted the maps to appeal to people who loved the maps in the original module. I have no idea if that decision was good or bad for the product's sales but I don' think it was unreasonable.

The original module didn't feature tactical maps.

Seriously, though. The more I look at these, the more baffled I become. For example, there's the instruction on page 36: "Ask the players to place their characters on the eastern edge of the map."

Instructions like that make sense in something like Keep on the Shadowfell when they include the maps at a usable scale. But it's complete nonsense when they don't.

 

[Glade Riven]

Well, I suppose there is the board game, although I don't know how accurate it is to the old school stuff.

 

[Stormonu]

Well, I suppose there is the board game, although I don't know how accurate it is to the old school stuff.

Unfortunately, the tiles in the boardgame have no match to anything in the module.

 

[jonesy]

Do you mean these?
Expedition to Castle Ravenloft Map Gallery

Could it be possible to enlarge and enhance them in Photoshop?

 

[Jhaelen]

The original module didn't feature tactical maps.

Of course it didn't. I just tried to answer your question ^^

Or what 'beautiful maps which serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever' have you been referring to?!

 

[Beginning of the End]

Or what 'beautiful maps which serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever' have you been referring to?!

... is this some sort of trick question?

Look at the title. Read the thread.