On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:54:06 -0400, Spanky The Man
<SpankyTheMan@gmail.com> wrote:
>One of the big reasons I got into roleplaying games - and Dungeons in
>Dragons in particular - was because of my love of maps. I liked
>looking at them, following them, even drawing them. When I laid down
>my hard-earned cash for a new accessory, I was really just paying for
>the maps; everything else was just extraneous fluff to justify the
>cost of those charts.
>
>And Dungeons & Dragons - especially Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1st
>and 2nd Edition) had the best maps. Printed in full-color and
>poster-sized, they were well-detailed but accessible, rugged yet
>beautiful. They covered the walls of my room.
>
>I still own most of my AD&D maps and accessories but these days it's
>just easier to look at the books in electronic form (far more portable
>too). Unfortunately, the maps in the available PDFs are usually
>quartered into 8.5"x11" chunks; this makes them easy to print but also
>makes it hard to visualize the entirety. So - map-lover that I was - I
>decided I had better do something about that.
>
>So I started to put all those maps back together, and - in the
>interest of posterity - I'm sharing them with the world.
>
>I'll be posting a few maps at a time. In most cases, these are not new
>scans (my scanner is way to small to handle these posters and I
>certainly am not going to chop apart my hard-copies), merely a
>recombination of existing scans. These original scans weren't always
>of great quality, often with noticable artifacting, crooked or missing
>portions. I've done the best I can to stick 'em back together into a
>coherent and good looking whole. Anyway, I mostly appreciate the
>effort of the original scanners (there are a few who need to have
>their scanners taken away from them though)
>
>No, I will not repost the source material (PDF) these came from.
>
>Hope you guys find these enjoyable and useful.
>
Most grateful Sparky! Some of these are hard as hell to find (I have
most the originals but I'm afraid to unfold them for fear they will
disintergrate).
Many thanks from an old fart gamer...
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