Customer Reviews

Map Folio II (Dungeons & Dragons Accessory)

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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.

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.

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.