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  1. #1
    Ed Stark
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    Birthright poster in revised ed

    At 07:13 AM 2/6/98 -0800, you wrote:
    >Hi there. Our very own Varsk Ed Stark asked us for good ideas
    >on a poster to be put in the revised edition of Birthright.

    That's not quite right. The REVISED EDITION will contain the maps from the
    original (maybe with a few modifications), but what I'm asking for opinions
    about is a BR PROMOTIONAL map, to be provided FREE to BR customers (or
    prospective customers). This is IN ADDITION to any maps you get with the
    revised edition--though, because of the way promotions are distributed,
    there's no guarantee (as yet) that the promo maps will be available for
    very long.

    I am, BTW, copying all suggestions into a text file and saving them to go
    over at our next meeting.


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    nick yates
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    Birthright poster in revised ed

    >
    >For the promo map, I would like to see a political map with colors for
    >countries associated with one another, like the one's under Avan's boot,
    >Boerune's Faction, the Gorgon's satraps. It should also include a leyline
    >network of all the mages listed in the book, so we could see just who is
    >connected where and get an accurate count of the true wizards listed.
    >Adding icons showing the location of points controlled by various guilds
    >and temples would also be useful, especially designating the main one.
    >
    >The black and white side could be the listing of all these folks and their
    >BR shorthand index
    >
    >I hope the map WITH the hardback have the ocean hexes delineated and
    >that there is a blank province map for all of Cerilia so that we can do
    >domain tracking of our own. I would like to copy the Khinasi lands with
    >Djara in place instead of the Bansheigh, Black Spear Tribes and the
    >'nameless thing' in the Direwood. Also, to show things like the full size
    >of Merasaf, before the orogs split it in two.
    >
    >Would it be possible to include some 'historical' maps in the book, showing
    >the Anuirean empire just before the fall of Michael Roele? Again, I'm
    >thinking of a political one with Diemed at it's full size but as a duchy of
    >the empire,
    snip

    I might be wrong but in the front of The Iron Throne there's a map of
    Anuire as it was at the time, ie no Roesone or Endier, its not very big but
    it might be of some use. I like the idea of showing political allegiances
    on the map, it might show some players just exactly how many enemies they
    have! I don't know if we need pictures of individual characters, I find
    that actually describing the eight foot tall sword wielding Awnshegh works
    better than showing them a picture.

    The leylines would be useful as well but I think a blank black and white
    map would be best of all so that you can mark changes as they occur. In
    our campaign, things are moving quickly and provinces are being taken away
    fairly quickly so its difficult to keep track. Thats all I guess, whatever
    form it takes I'm sure it'll be useful.

    Nick


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    >Thanks for asking!
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  3. #3
    Neil Barnes
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    Birthright poster in revised ed

    On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Ed Stark wrote:
    > That's not quite right. The REVISED EDITION will contain the maps from the
    > original (maybe with a few modifications), but what I'm asking for opinions
    > about is a BR PROMOTIONAL map, to be provided FREE to BR customers (or
    > prospective customers). This is IN ADDITION to any maps you get with the
    > revised edition--though, because of the way promotions are distributed,
    > there's no guarantee (as yet) that the promo maps will be available for
    > very long.

    In that case I'd suggest that on one side there's a map of the
    continent, with the country boundries, at half the size of the poster.
    In the margins could be notes on sites shown on the map - which should
    be a reasonable mix of potential adventures sites for PCs (so it's
    useful for groups already playing the game - players can tell the GM
    that they want to go to the Island of Sudden & Horrible Death to find
    the lost crown of Min Dhousai) but that also get across the feel of the
    world.

    The other side could be a list of prominant NPCs (Gavin Tael, Davian
    Avan, the Gorgon, the Raven & the Magian) with pictures and brief notes
    (more background than game stats) - a sort of these are your rivals, do
    you think you can compete? We need to make it sound exciting &
    intriguing to people who are picking it up for interest. That way people
    who hadn't started playing the game would be able to put articles in
    Dragon etc into context, which would hopefully impress them as to the
    brilliance of the setting :)

    Maps of Aduria don't really get across the flavour of the game to
    potential players, and rather than see a map of Aduria now, I'd like
    a map of and some information about Aduria at the time of Deismaar, so
    people could have it develop how they like (strong empire vs decaying
    city states wracked with civil war, whatever). That way we could work
    from common ideas to produce unique modern Adurias. Maybe.

    neil

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