Wilderland travel playmat

[Bumbleroot]

I haven't played a game yet but I wanted to put together some stuff to make things a little prettier and easier for me (I've never been a GM before).

This is a quickish mockup for a playmat, designed for the specs used at Inked. Is there anything important I should have on here? Basically, I wanted something nice in the centre of the table while we traveled.

Files a large, hence the linking.

Wilderland:
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Also, a Moria one in case we ever get there:
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[Bumbleroot]

I still have to shop out more of the folds for the wilderland scan and move things about a bit.

Is it OK with Cubicle 7 for me to upload the scan itself when I've cleaned it up? It's something I was looking for a good High Res version of before I ended up doing it myself. I'm sure others would be keen also.

[Hermes Serpent]

I'll warn you before the C7 crew see this, but it's a no-no based on previous attempts to use parts of their map in fan material.

[Jon Hodgson]

Please don't publish our material online. We try to be as supportive as our license allows with fan created material, but we cannot bend the laws of copyright in this situation, I'm afraid. Please take the image of our map down. Thank you.

[Yusei]

Copyright questions aside, players are not supposed to see the LM's map, so I would use the other one, and then maybe add light-gray hexagons on top of it.

[Hermes Serpent]

Still while you could use the non-hex version for personal use in a game run on line you can't be posting this for people to acquire as Jon points out it's their IP.

The alternatives - the older Pete Fenlon maps are still, I believe, under the copyright of M-e E and equally not to be posted on line where they can be acquired.

I'm not sure where you'd stand if you drew your own map and used the Professor's names for places as I think that could be a copyright issue as well.

[StuartJ]

Hi Bumbleroot,

though the use of copyright material means distributing your version as-is is a non-starter, please don't let that discourage your creative efforts: this looks beautiful!

If you strip out of the map itself, could you share the image and/or the source (.psd?) graphic files for your travel mat background, as a basis for people to make their own arrangements? I've been thinking that an integrated map and travel mat would be a great resource for virtual tabletop games run on e.g. Roll20 - and your general styling seems a neat complement to the work that Heilemann has done on a theme for running The One Ring using their platform.

Stuart

[Rich H]

I'm not sure where you'd stand if you drew your own map and used the Professor's names for places as I think that could be a copyright issue as well.

As long as you're not looking to profit from it, I think you should be okay. I've done a homemade map as follows for the lands of Dale and further afield for instance:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... elands.jpg

[Valarian]

I've also done a homemade version of Middle-earth maps.
https://plus.google.com/photos/11245249 ... 3176345425

[Heilemann]

I like the basic idea a lot, and can see myself adopting something like that for my game as well. It seems a bit compressed, would you share a .psd of the traveling order part of the map?