XCR: Maps of Barovia

[MerricB]

Wizards have posted the first map from Expedition to Castle Ravenloft (XCR)- the Lands of Barovia. I urge you to compare it to the original map from I6.

Even most of the letter keys are the same!

Cheers!

 

[Wycen]

Strahd must have gone on a feeding frenzy, Barovia is now the same size as his castle.

 

[Crothian]

Even if he ate them, you'd think the buildings would have remained....

 

[InVinoVeritas]

Run! It's a vampiric castle!

 

[Matafuego]

I like the new maps but the diminishing size of Barovia is surprising!
I really want this book...

 

[TerraDave]

Or they made the castle and the terain a lot bigger.

 

[Klaus]

I don´t quite like the "tiered" look of the terrain.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Or they made the castle and the terain a lot bigger.

That original map makes it look like either Castle Ravenloft is 40 x40 ft, or the peasants in Barovia live in McMansions...

 

[Treebore]

I don´t quite like the "tiered" look of the terrain.

I do, since it accentuates the very rocky terrain that the castle is in, plus the elevations look to be as the original, so they are just using the improved graphics of the last 20 years to give us visual cues in the map.

I am now officially drooling to see what they did with the castle itself.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I do, since it accentuates the very rocky terrain that the castle is in, plus the elevations look to be as the original, so they are just using the improved graphics of the last 20 years to give us visual cues in the map.

I disagree that it accentuates rocky terrain. It makes the mountain sides looks like a stepped ziggurat slope. There are other advanced graphic approaches that don't make this poor choice to highlight the elevation contours.