- Map: 64 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (8 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786932805
- ISBN-13: 978-0786932801
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 21.3 x 0.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,595,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Map
This turned out to be extremely disappointing for me, as it will for any DM capable of creating at least half-decent maps of their own. Despite the inclusion of a few excellent drawings and illustrations of the city on the cover, the maps inside are mostly pretty unimaginative and could be fitted on half the amount of pages, as each page has a map that on average only occupies half to a quarter of each A4 page. The rest is filled with a copious black border and repeated illustrations of the buildings from the outside.
The overall product is confusingly put together, with little consistency in how the maps connect with each other within buildings and as a whole city. Figuring it all out is frustrating and in the end anybody's guess.
I bought this expecting a great big bundle of the good quality, interesting maps that Wizards normally release both within their products and especially on the Map a Week feature on their website. I was sorely disappointed with both the content and presentation of the maps in this product, they wasted the opportunity to deliver something so much better. Overall, uninspiring and borderline useless.
And by the way, the shocking poor quality CGI overland maps included (as an obvious filler) at the end of the product has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the maps, just to save you some time.
The overall product is confusingly put together, with little consistency in how the maps connect with each other within buildings and as a whole city. Figuring it all out is frustrating and in the end anybody's guess.
I bought this expecting a great big bundle of the good quality, interesting maps that Wizards normally release both within their products and especially on the Map a Week feature on their website. I was sorely disappointed with both the content and presentation of the maps in this product, they wasted the opportunity to deliver something so much better. Overall, uninspiring and borderline useless.
And by the way, the shocking poor quality CGI overland maps included (as an obvious filler) at the end of the product has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the maps, just to save you some time.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Map
For use with dungeons and dragons roll playing game (any edition)
32 sheets containing maps of a particular tropical location which will not be easy to adapt to your own location due to it being centered around a river.
These maps include- Typical dwellings, foundry, jungle outpost, king's temple, observatory, temple of healing arts and maps of the area which I'm struggling to link up. The maps contain pratically no labels and so you have to guess what is supposed to be in many rooms.
The artwork is quite pretty but that is about as far as this goes. I personally was not impressed with this publication.
32 sheets containing maps of a particular tropical location which will not be easy to adapt to your own location due to it being centered around a river.
These maps include- Typical dwellings, foundry, jungle outpost, king's temple, observatory, temple of healing arts and maps of the area which I'm struggling to link up. The maps contain pratically no labels and so you have to guess what is supposed to be in many rooms.
The artwork is quite pretty but that is about as far as this goes. I personally was not impressed with this publication.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Good for Maztica Campaigns
26 Jan 2005
Format:Map
I very much enjoyed the first Map Folio - it gave a variety of well drawn, well colored maps suitable either for DM use or player reference. In buying the second in the series though, I may have erred. The quality is still excellent - it's the variety that suffered. Almost all the maps deal with sections and buildings of an Aztec-like fortress city. While this would be great for a Maztica campaign, or a single CoC adventure, it lacks the broad verstaility that the previous map folio did.
If you can use a ruined Maya city in your campaign, buy this. If not, take a pass.
If you can use a ruined Maya city in your campaign, buy this. If not, take a pass.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Has some good maps
7 Nov 2004
Format:Map
This Map Folio has some good maps, as seen on the cover, they are mostly tropical with an Aztec kind of feel. But if you are thinking about using them as a playing field, don't. They are not full scale and you can't place your mini's on the maps. They are for reference and for helping your PC's. If that is what you want them buy these maps.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing
13 Jun 2005
Format:Map
In the first place, contrary to the information above, this product consists of 32 maps, not 64. And that's all you get: maps, with no information as to how they fit together.
Five of the maps link together to form an overland map, but there is no indication of where the city lies in relation to this. There is no overhead rendition of the city to show how it fits together. The placement of only two of the included buildings is obvious; where the other two fit is anyone's guess. Worst of all, one seven-level building is included without any hint as to how the levels fit together. Each unnumbered level has a stairway, but none of them seem to match up; the King's Temple has the architectural logic of an Escher print.
In addition, the back cover copy promises "labyrinthine tunnels"; there are no tunnels at all included in this folio.
This was a very disappointing purchase. You might as well spend the time drawing up your own maps as puzzling out how these maps are supposed to fit together.
Five of the maps link together to form an overland map, but there is no indication of where the city lies in relation to this. There is no overhead rendition of the city to show how it fits together. The placement of only two of the included buildings is obvious; where the other two fit is anyone's guess. Worst of all, one seven-level building is included without any hint as to how the levels fit together. Each unnumbered level has a stairway, but none of them seem to match up; the King's Temple has the architectural logic of an Escher print.
In addition, the back cover copy promises "labyrinthine tunnels"; there are no tunnels at all included in this folio.
This was a very disappointing purchase. You might as well spend the time drawing up your own maps as puzzling out how these maps are supposed to fit together.
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