World's Largest Dungeon Maps

[Mr_smiles]

Hello, I'm new to the forums. I'm considering running World's Largest Dungeon for my group. We're all spread out, so I was also going to try a VTT such as Fantasy Grounds. Anyway I have the PDF for WLD, which has digital maps. But because the dungeon are so huge, the resolution is way to small to use for actual digital playing. As long as this has been out surely someone has created some higher Resolution maps. I wanted to check before I started creating my own, which would be very time consuming and annoying with software I have available to me.

If anyone has a set of digital maps that I could use that would be greatly appreciated.

 

[GMMichael]

Try Roll20.net. They seem to be decent about scaling images.

Unless the scaling is the problem, because it results in a blurry image. In which case, just make your players draw it out on their own as you describe it. You'll gain all sorts of fun when the players discover they've made an error on their maps...

 

[keterys]

http://www.james.neetersoft.com/wld/wld.htm

 

[Mr_smiles]

The scaling is the problem, by the time I blow it up to have a reasonable size grid to play on, it's so blurry that even the grid lines are unintelligible. I've seen that site, keterys, but the images there I have the same issues. If I could get a copy of the physical maps, I could scan them myself at higher resolutions and break it up into smaller sections. But haven't seen them anywhere for a reasonable price yet.

 

[Nylanfs]

There's some tool used to extract images from PDF's that might be of some use.

https://www.gonitro.com/pdf-reader

And these to get the size down if you are trying to share them via a vtt like Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds

ScriptPNG and ScriptJPG.

 

[keterys]

That site does have a few huge jpegs on it, like http://www.james.neetersoft.com/wld/wld_region_a_pr.jpg - if that's not usable, then I'm not sure what to suggest. I've had good luck before with Maptools and wotc predone tiles. Or really it's mostly basic grid for WLD, could just use whatever map drawer is native for the online game.