Triplanetary-Style Map?

[Steve Plambeck]

Originally Posted by Shostak

Yes--sort of. I did not get to print them in time for that "away" game, because I wanted to have them at 1.5-inch hex size and could not reformat the PDF to allow printing efficiently on 11x17 inch paper--the margins are too wide to print all the tiles on a page at about 170%. But I did print them at the normal PDF size for my "home" game, and I really like their rectalinearity.

Yeah, the pages are very full so scaling up that large won't work very well. And scaling PDFs isn't always available depending on versions and printers. An edition in Legacy scale is possible, although far fewer pieces would fit per page, and some of the larger pieces (rooms and longer tunnel runs) would become impossible (at least on letter size paper).

If there was really enough interest in the set, I might make it available as separate jpg files for each piece, then the user could resize the jpgs more readily in PaintShop or PhotoShop, and print one at a time from those programs, or copy and paste whatever fits onto one page at the new scale of choice. I'll think on it all some more. I spent weeks getting the book ready at classical scale, and I need to catch up on other projects before I go back to that one.

Actually another idea I had was to shrink everything to maybe 1/4 size as jpgs. Then a full, virtual dungeon map could be created by just dragging the desired pieces around and pasting them into a large, new image. That's how I created some of the illustrations for the book, and found it to be fun.