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WalkerNinja
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 10 Jan 2024 : 03:26:45
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Once upon a time I had every single boxed set ever, and I kept my entire FR map—Icewind Dale to Evermeet to Zakhara, to the islands of Wa—all on the wall of the game room of my FLGS. 13 years ago I sold all my physical products and gave up in-person D&D. (Reasons are immaterial but legitimate).
I’ve got all the materials on PDF, but would like to recreate my map mural in my home game room now.
Any of the scribes here know how to get these things printed new without having to scour eBay?
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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
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Posted - 11 Jan 2024 : 20:27:35
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DewnMoutain
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 11 Jan 2024 : 20:39:43
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i'll +1 the above. you should be able to find a local print shop and have maps scanned and printed to various sizes.
you know... now that it's in my head, i feel i should do the same thing with some maps i have.... |
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WalkerNinja
Senior Scribe
USA
573 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2024 : 22:04:53
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Originally posted by TomCosta
Couldn't you print the pdf maps on a shop? I know some have done this.
All the PDFs I have have it broken up into 8.5”x11”sheet of paper and they’d have to be assembled like a jigsaw puzzle.
I was hoping that someone here knew of a place that had the full scans of the posters so that they could be printed on a single sheet |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 Jan 2024 : 23:01:40
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Problematic. The PDFs on DM's Guild are sometimes available on Print on Demand, but haphazardly, and the maps are printed as pages of the rulebooks, not separately.
One alternative approach might be to locate copies of The Waterdeep Trail Map and the Kara-Tur Trail Map. They were large-scaled maps of Faerun and Kara-Tur that could be combined into a poster mega-map. Not as detailed as combining all the 1"=30 mile maps from the smaller sourcebooks, but probably far more economical to track down 2 resources than dozens.
I have a 2E style world map here which is huge and I know one person printed it out for a wall-sized poster map. It is more informative than decorative though. I have additional individual maps of the continents. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 11 Jan 2024 : 23:41:51
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| you could google forgotten realms 2e map and you may find something. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 13 Jan 2024 : 17:07:10
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quote:
Originally posted by Werthead
One alternative approach might be to locate copies of The Waterdeep Trail Map and the Kara-Tur Trail Map. They were large-scaled maps of Faerun and Kara-Tur that could be combined into a poster mega-map. Not as detailed as combining all the 1"=30 mile maps from the smaller sourcebooks, but probably far more economical to track down 2 resources than dozens.
I'll note that these two maps don't go together well -- I tried that, once. I could be mistaken, but I believe it was Ed that explained that the Waterdeep map was made from the perspective of being in Waterdeep and looking east, and the Kara-Tur one would be from Kozakura looking west, so the accuracy declines the further from the origin point. |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 Jan 2024 : 15:02:30
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'll note that these two maps don't go together well -- I tried that, once. I could be mistaken, but I believe it was Ed that explained that the Waterdeep map was made from the perspective of being in Waterdeep and looking east, and the Kara-Tur one would be from Kozakura looking west, so the accuracy declines the further from the origin point.
I've looked over them, they seem pretty fine and consistent with the smaller maps in terms of locations.
The only significant anomaly is that the maps predate the invention of Zakhara by 3-4 years, so the coastline just drifts off southwards to nowhere in particular, but not a major problem. Certainly the two maps were designed to fit together (to the point of the borders lining up and allowing the maps to be fitted together just fine). |
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