D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase?

I’m not telling you it’s okay, I’m making suggestions as to what you could do about it.

There is a tension between what makes a good digital map and what make a good tabletop map. Digital maps want eye candy, and it’s easy to make the grid as clear or hidden as you like to suit your play style. A good tabletop map is bi-coloured and as simple as possible so it can be easily reproduced with pencil and paper.

This map is clearly intended to be a VTT map, not a tabletop map.

I found Vecna: Eve of Ruin particularly frustrating as it switches between VTT and tabletop style maps at random, so however you are playing the next map is going to be in the wrong style.

As for this particular map, the area is only about 50 miles across, with lots of habitation. It’s more a ramble in the South Downs than the Oregon Trail. It’s not like anyone is going to run out of food and starve. You can give the players a copy and say “where do you want to go” then tell them how long it takes.
And if I am giving them a photo copy from the BOOK. It will still not tell me how many miles because the hex are muddy.
My review was talking about the physical copy. My complainant is the print copy. Wotc needs to do better print maps. Telling me to buy whole another product, does not fix the issue.
 

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And if I am giving them a photo copy from the BOOK. It will still not tell me how many miles because the hex are muddy.
My review was talking about the physical copy. My complainant is the print copy. Wotc needs to do better print maps. Telling me to buy whole another product, does not fix the issue.
The map has a scale. You don’t need to be able to see the hexes to find a distance, you just need to be able to use a ruler.

But if the printing is really as bad as you make out you should return the product as it’s clearly defective.
 


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