Avast Landlubbers! First!
(Always wanted to do that!)
It looks awesome and I can't wait to explore every single island! It is like having a whole new world to explore!
OK, now that's the map I was hoping to see. This makes locating places and isles a snap. Beautifully done!
That is really fantastic! Hats off to Patrick and the cartographer who managed to squeeze all of those tags in!
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That is really fantastic! Hats off to Patrick and the cartographer who managed to squeeze all of those tags in!
Crystal is the real hero in this case. I just marked up the blank map—she made it serviceable and pretty!
Really great map. Will be a great accompaniment to Skull and Shackles.
Incredibly minor thing, but while searching for those promised spoilers I found a couple of tiny errors: Skinny Whale Bay is called Skinny Whale Isle on the map, and Haekin's Rebuke is called Haekin's Redoubt. Really small, but felt like it should be pointed out.
Awesome!!
Now we know where the PCs' island-home-to-be is located for the Skull & Shackles campaign! ;-)
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Cool map. I really wish you guys would have whole number mile scales on your maps though; this one is 6.25 miles per section. Why not just make the scale 40 miles instead of 50 for a simple 5 miles per section? This kind of thing happens a lot on the Golarian maps.
Golarian is really becoming a very populated place. With each new AP and/or world supplement dozens of new settlements are introduced from villages all the way up to major cities. Is there an upper limit to the world’s population in mind or will it expand infinitely?
There's an upper limit.
In theory, once we've super-detailed a region, as has happened now for Varisia and Ustalav and the Shackles and a few other places, we'll stop adding new towns and the like and start requiring future designers and authors to NOT make up new stuff, but to use established names of locations.
Thank you for this! It's truly awesome and it makes me happy. I'm definitely going to be running this AP in the near future.
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Mike Shel has been vindicated!
Another reason I love Paizo!
Cheers, gang.
My pleasure, but you do realise I had absolutely nothing to do with this, right? :p
Does anyone feel that showing the PCs this map would spoil anything for them? I'm thinking that without Isles of the Shackles or the AP books this would just come across as a collection of names.
I'd considered trying to figure out how to blow up one of the maps of the Shackles and toss on a hex grid to keep track of the players' ship. Need to decide what I should use as the base map.
This is fantastic -- very helpful -- and it shows another reason why Paizo is awesome. The players asked for a more detailed map of the Shackles, and here it is! Much thanks!
Now we know where the PCs' island-home-to-be is located for the Skull & Shackles campaign! ;-)
Some of us have known that for awhile now. ;-D
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Does anyone feel that showing the PCs this map would spoil anything for them? I'm thinking that without Isles of the Shackles or the AP books this would just come across as a collection of names.
I'd considered trying to figure out how to blow up one of the maps of the Shackles and toss on a hex grid to keep track of the players' ship. Need to decide what I should use as the base map.
If there's a location that's supposed to be secret & the players are supposed to spend a while searching for it, it'd be a bit disappointing if when the GM first mentions this mysterious place the players go 'oh that, that's 30 miles west of here...
If there's a location that's supposed to be secret & the players are supposed to spend a while searching for it, it'd be a bit disappointing if when the GM first mentions this mysterious place the players go 'oh that, that's 30 miles west of here...
That was pretty much my concern. I'll likely end up using one of the emptier maps.
Really great map. Will be a great accompaniment to Skull and Shackles.
Incredibly minor thing, but while searching for those promised spoilers I found a couple of tiny errors: Skinny Whale Bay is called Skinny Whale Isle on the map, and Haekin's Rebuke is called Haekin's Redoubt. Really small, but felt like it should be pointed out.
Now I am wondering which names are correct, or whether or not they are just alternate names...
Thanks for the beautiful map!
Crystal is the real hero in this case. I just marked up the blank map—she made it serviceable and pretty!
Just ask her to do some more KM paper minis next, please!
Ruyan.
Now I am wondering which names are correct, or whether or not they are just alternate names...Really great map. Will be a great accompaniment to Skull and Shackles.
Incredibly minor thing, but while searching for those promised spoilers I found a couple of tiny errors: Skinny Whale Bay is called Skinny Whale Isle on the map, and Haekin's Rebuke is called Haekin's Redoubt. Really small, but felt like it should be pointed out.
The names in the book are the correct names. The two contradictory tags on the map accidentally slipped through the editing passes.
Great map! I will definitely get a lot of use out of it! For me this map just just about doubled the value of the Isles of the Shackles CS, as I now know where all these locations are. :)
This map is awesome! Is there any possibility of getting a version without the text layer? As it stands it's a great GM reference, but if we had just the landforms (or maybe just the island names & Port Peril) it would be a fantastic thing to hand the players and say "Here you go. Annotate away!" I find that if the players have a high-quality-but-mostly-blank map then there's a great deal of enjoyment in exploring and putting their own labels in as they find things.
You'll want to check out the Skull & Shackles Map Folio—both the physical and PDF versions will have untagged maps. :) (And I see that by your subscription tags, you have the Campaign Setting subscription line, so you'll get the PDF for free in your downloads.)
The names in the book are the correct names. The two contradictory tags on the map accidentally slipped through the editing passes.Now I am wondering which names are correct, or whether or not they are just alternate names...Really great map. Will be a great accompaniment to Skull and Shackles.
Incredibly minor thing, but while searching for those promised spoilers I found a couple of tiny errors: Skinny Whale Bay is called Skinny Whale Isle on the map, and Haekin's Rebuke is called Haekin's Redoubt. Really small, but felt like it should be pointed out.
Thank you. :) I suppose they can also be used as mistranslations by that Mwangi pirate in Port Peril. lol
This map is incredible
This map is awesome! Is there any possibility of getting a version without the text layer? As it stands it's a great GM reference, but if we had just the landforms (or maybe just the island names & Port Peril) it would be a fantastic thing to hand the players and say "Here you go. Annotate away!" I find that if the players have a high-quality-but-mostly-blank map then there's a great deal of enjoyment in exploring and putting their own labels in as they find things.You'll want to check out the Skull & Shackles Map Folio—both the physical and PDF versions will have untagged maps. :) (And I see that by your subscription tags, you have the Campaign Setting subscription line, so you'll get the PDF for free in your downloads.)
Blast.
So I'm not confused, and the three maps in the S&S map folio consist of one of Port Peril, plus two unlabeled pretty much the same maps of the Shackles.
I was hoping I was doing something wrong, but the only way to get the above, far more useful map as a hardcopy is to, for example, pay Staples to do it?
:(
Dot!