Vote For Or Against POL Map Here

[Kahuna Burger]

To repeat myself from one of the other threads on the issue - I want a Points of Light world map... then I want another one, and another one. As mutually incompatible as possible. I like the idea of having a well thought out and reasonably internally consistent map to use in a ambitious PoL campaign, but I don't like the idea of a canon setting. So have several folks do a PoL map that integrates all the meta-setting fluff, and publish them all.

 

[architect.zero]

No world map, no continent maps, nothing above the scale of a city and a 1 days ride radius of countryside. If the published adventures reference each other's locations, that's FINE. Just don't show where each occurs in relation to one another. Feel free to describe that the Keep on the Shadowfell is South (N,E, or W) of Location XYZ, just keep the distances appropriately vague (near, far, a few days ride, etc...).

 

[Gundark]

I'm interested in a villaige/town map. not a region/world map

 

[Aristotle]

IMHO: If you are going to map it, you might as well use an existing campaign setting. I like PoL. I like common lore and place names. The designers need to learn some restraint and save the world building for worlds.

 

[amethal]

If the question is map, the answer is yes.

I love maps.

 

[Mouseferatu]

The entire stated purpose of the "Points of Light" setting was sporadic areas of civilization with unknown wilderness filling in all the spaces between them.

A world map completely contradicts that entire notion. Nobody knows what the world looks like. The vast majority of people don't even know what the area 6 miles beyond their village looks like. That's the whole objective.

Put me down as someone who'd love to see an area mapped--a single Point of Light, as someone else put it--but nothing more.

 

[Najo]

The entire stated purpose of the "Points of Light" setting was sporadic areas of civilization with unknown wilderness filling in all the spaces between them.

A world map completely contradicts that entire notion. Nobody knows what the world looks like. The vast majority of people don't even know what the area 6 miles beyond their village looks like. That's the whole objective.

Put me down as someone who'd love to see an area mapped--a single Point of Light, as someone else put it--but nothing more.

I agree with you Ari. Which is exactly why they are doing the town in the DMG.

 

[Li Shenron]

A sample map would be useful, but I really think that a world map is inappropriate for PoL, so it would have to be a local map, perhaps a small region at most.

A larger-scale map is still useful for the DM, but players of characters in a PoL setting should not be able to see it.

 

[Mercule]

The entire stated purpose of the "Points of Light" setting was sporadic areas of civilization with unknown wilderness filling in all the spaces between them.

A world map completely contradicts that entire notion. Nobody knows what the world looks like. The vast majority of people don't even know what the area 6 miles beyond their village looks like. That's the whole objective.

Put me down as someone who'd love to see an area mapped--a single Point of Light, as someone else put it--but nothing more.

Hammer, meet nail.

 

[Klaus]

There's no option in the poll for me:

I'd like to see a few of the R&D bigwigs (Mearls, Andy, Rich) come up with different versions of the core setting, made available as web-enhancements for the Core books. Not only maps, but different timelines, power groups, etc.

That way you'd have no official core setting, and would still be presenting DMs with examples of what can be built using the basic assumptions of the PoL setting.