![]() But 4 out of 5 people who participate in the adventure only see a crappy hand drawn map. Every time I see one of the gorgeous maps I sigh because the map the players see is a crudely hand-drawn graph paper map on a big mat. Honestly, yeah I have always considered the gorgeous maps produced by Paizo to be a tragic waste. I doubt there are very many who base their purchases on the maps. I am not sure how many people flip through adventures and judge whether they want to run the game mostly on the look of the maps. The maps then were often just graph paper maps with symbols for features. Well I suppose that is one way of looking at it.īut back in the heyday of the 80s, the maps in adventures were not "beautiful" but GMs still ran them. If something is beautiful to the GM, that can inspire the GM to run the game. :) I don't consider it going "to waste" at all. Then again, I am a tech guy trying to bridge my hobby with my hobby. With just a shading layer and a quick FoW deal, it could help heighten the mood. I'm not sure many folks would go for that.īuri wrote: It's just a shame the artwork put into the maps basically goes to waste during play. To do products like that for all six parts means that you'd have to shell out several hundred dollars more per Adventure Path. I wouldn't be surprised to see such a product end up costing close to a hundred bucks, honestly, if not more, since the cost to do that is several times more than the cost to do a 320 page hardcover book.Īnd remember, that's just for 1/6 of an adventure path. Which means that what we'd have to price that product would be insanely high. The cost to produce 350 pages of maps doesn't change based on a map's scale-it costs just as much to print a 350 page minis-scale map as it does to print 350 separate pages of different dungeons. Pagecount wise, this would be a map pack that would consist of I think it was about 350 pages or thereabouts, if I recall correctly. A year later, someone actually printed out ONE LEVEL of the castle at that scale, and it more or less covered the entire floor of his living room. ![]() It turned out that a minis-scale map of all of the levels of Castle Scarwall would make a map approximately the size of a parking lot. As an experiment back in the day, I calculated how many pages a minis-scale map would entail for the big castle in the penultimate Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure. The maps of locations we publish in every adventure are big.
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