D&D 5E Starter Set: Phandalin Map

[Remathilis]

My point is, the Phandalin map is drawn in a precise top-down style (you can clearly tell the artist used a grid while drawing it). The benefit of using a style like that is to make it easy to judge exact distances. The lack of a grid works against that purpose. It just feels like they weren't thinking about why they were doing things--they just decided to make a town map because they felt like an adventure should have a town map.

Here. Don't say I never did anything for you.

 

[MarkB]

Wow, for a place that small and remote, it certainly has excellent cell coverage.

 

[PinkRose]

But Morrus, I don't like Ice Cream!

 

[Hussar]

But Rem, those are 50 foot hexes, for exact accuracy, we should be using 20 foot hexes so the entire map is obscured.

 

[Remathilis]

But Morrus, I don't like Ice Cream!

This is proof that lizard-people aliens DO live among us!

 

[theopacman]

Please bring on July.
95 posts about the relative worth of a map that is similar to the vast majority of adventure maps since Hommlet says we need it.

 

[howandwhy99]

Thank you, Remathilis! That's a step in the right direction.

It still sounds like they don't know what kind of game they're selling. That map isn't a game map. It's a picture map. How could it support the DM using it behind the screen?

 

[MarkB]

Thank you, Remathilis! That's a step in the right direction.

It still sounds like they don't know what kind of game they're selling. That map isn't a game map. It's a picture map. How could it support the DM using it behind the screen?

It's a village. Most of the marked locations are public, and the other few could most likely be found through a moment's polite enquiry.

It's meant to be used in front of the screen, not behind it.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Thank you, Remathilis! That's a step in the right direction.

It still sounds like they don't know what kind of game they're selling. That map isn't a game map. It's a picture map. How could it support the DM using it behind the screen?

I'll be using it next week.

Please don't tell my group that the map has no value.

 

[Thaumaturge]

For those who didn't catch it, in the Starter Set Unboxing video (time code: 29:30) Greg Bilsland mentions they originally didn't want a town map in the Starter Set, but the playtesters of the adventure deemed it necessary.

Because people wanted a sense of what were the locations they could go to.

They compare it to having a map of the village of Homlet.

Thaumaturge.