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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HonorBoundSamurai632" data-source="post: 7680352" data-attributes="member: 6790888">And this is my biggest problem with these adventures. I love the fact that WoTC is letting the artists sell the maps they created for the adventures on that particular artist's personal website. My issue is ..... (for instance) the Hoard of the Dragon Queen map pack that Jared Blando is selling, is $75!! You get each map, printed and signed by him. Neat! But that adventure cost $30 and wasn't even a complete storyline. So for my DM'ing style, I would have to spend over $100 for the first half of Tyranny of Dragons .... (because my players and I love maps.) So buy them individually for $2.25 a piece and print them yourself right?Well I don't have this amazing state-of-the-art printer, and the closest place to me, is an Office Max. So to go there and print them individually, would cost anywhere from $10-almost $20. I know this because I just had them print the 3.5 version of the City of Greyhawk that Mike has on his site. It cost me like 19.60-something. I got the map 18"x24" and laminated (the price on the site includes a light cardboard backing, I didn't get the backing for easier storage.)For my DM-ing style ..... that's a very expensive adventure!! In comparison, as I said in another post elsewhere .... my wife grabbed me Paizo's Rise of the Runelords Anniversary hardcover for $50, and the map folio for $15. In addition, I recently picked up the Pawn Collection for that adventure for $13!! The whole adventure, ALL the maps, and pawns (every single thing I'd need to run this adventure,) for like $78. OoTA is $50 and if I download Mike's maps for it, (which presently is only 2 maps out of the book for $1.75,) I'm looking at somewhere around $70 for all of that. But I only have 2 maps out of the book.I made this suggestion before and all the WoTC-lovers ripped me apart for it, but I'd love to see WoTC create map folios for their adventures like Paizo. They borrowed all of Paizo's other marketing strategies, what's one more.As much as it pains me, because I really do like the new 5th Edition rules, these adventures would drain my pocket too much.Lastly, it stinks because in the end ..... I'll probably have to buy OotA because I really want the stats on all those Demon Lords .... (same reason I bought RoT .... for Tiamat's stats.)</blockquote>

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