A fantastic contribution! Thank you!
On 2014-10-06 18:54:06 +0000, Spanky The Man said:
> 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.
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-Popeye
"I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam."
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