Serpent Kingdoms - why no maps?

[GlassJaw]

I just got SK (very sweet) but there's no map! What's the deal? There is actually a fair amount of FR info in it along with descriptions of various cities, ruins, locations, etc but where are they? Unapproachable East didn't have a fold-out map but at least it had some maps in the book itself.

 

[GlassJaw]

No one knows! It's a mystery!

 

[Turanil]

I am still waiting for my own copy of Serpent Kingdoms (Amazon are not in a hurry to ship it seems ). Since I will use that book for my homebrew setting, I am glad that no FR map has been included! I just hope that the FR infotext will be easy to adapt to my homebrew.

 

[Gez]

Uh, it's magic. There's a spell that makes it impossible to draw a correct map. That's, uh, for security reasons.

 

[GlassJaw]

Ok, so simple answer: no one knows. Whatever.

 

[BobROE]

Ok, so simple answer: no one knows. Whatever.

Someone asked Richard Baker for a web enhancement with one, but he said it was too expensive for a web enhancement, so maybe it was a cost thing.

 

[Turanil]

Someone asked Richard Baker for a web enhancement with one, but he said it was too expensive for a web enhancement, so maybe it was a cost thing.

"too expensive for a web enhancement"?
I believed that web-enhancements were stuff already written, but that had not found a place in the limited available space of the book. It's IMO unreasonable to think that people are paid specifically to produce a web-enhancement. So we must conclude that no map was ever developped.

Again, I am glad that no FR map is included in this book!

 

[GlassJaw]

Again, I am glad that no FR map is included in this book

Yeah, you mentioned that already. So what? if it did have a map, does that mean you wouldn't buy it?

All the other FR books have maps: Silver Marches, Unapproachable East, Underdark. I think it's pretty ridiculous that SK has nothing even though the region is one that hasn't been covered with much in the past.

 

[Arnwyn]

I was disappointed that there wasn't a map, but not entirely surprised.

I don't care all that much, though, as I had every intention of using the (far superior) poster maps from previous products, anyways.

 

[GlassJaw]

I had every intention of using the (far superior) poster maps from previous products

What product details this region? Is there one besides the 2ed Chult sourcebook?