THE GREEN - Magical Adventures Beneath the Canopy

[Puck]

That is really good news. Of all things I just e-mailed Dustin today and asked about this very thing.

[Trifletraxor]

Just bought the pdf and printed it out. Havent started reading it yet (must finish Fractured Hopes first), but I do like your photoshopping!

SGL.

[Puck]

Cool, I hope you enjoy reading it when the time comes.

[Bygoneyrs]

I want a "printed" copy for my hot little hands to hold, you see these older eyes doesn't like to read a .pdf in the Throne room either..LOL!

Penn

[Puck]

I want a "printed" copy for my hot little hands to hold, you see these older eyes doesn't like to read a .pdf in the Throne room either..LOL!

Boy I sure agree with you there. Thats where I do most of my quality reading.:cool:

I have learned the hard way that I will not get much enjoyment out of PDF's. I just cannot sit in front of the computer and read them they way I would with a regular book. Early on I couldn't seem to wait and bought all the monographs as soon as they came out in PDF's. Now I wish I would have waited.
Well, I hope the Green is worth the wait. I recieved a reply from Dustin and apparently it was held up do to some printing problems.

[Bygoneyrs]

Well I am sure The Green will be worth having and adding to my Libray of "printed stuff". Now the other reason I have "STOPPED" buying .pdf things is a while back I made the mistake of NOT backing up my files on a Flash or External drive and first I got a nasty virus on my pc, and then a while later my mother board and power supply croked and I lost everything on that PC. I have learned to back things up on external storage butit is alot of trouble. Plus after a person buys a .pdf, down loads it, takes it somewhere to get sudo-professionally printed and bound in a book format...it ends uup taking more space on a shelf than a printed copy and costs even more than the printed version with S&H too. To me the convience of getting a book already printed is the way to go for me. Also I take very good care of my resource libray and my books last a long time anyway.

Penn

[Trond]

I sure hope it get's printed. It is a great setting (currently getting into it to run a campaign shortly).
I actually love the inclusion of gunpowder.

However, I would like some general idea as to the relative distances on the maps, particularly the one on page 140. This is the only complaint I have: lack of scale bars.
For instance, what is the distance between Jurate and Riverstone? Or more importantly (for gaming) how long does it normally take to travel between these sites?

[Puck]

Thanks, I hope you enjoy it. I would sure love to hear about your adventures in the Green and how it works out for your group.

It sounds as if the book is probably at the printers now.

I agonized over the distances and the scale of the map for some time. I kept putting the final decision off. In the end I thought that I would leave it up the GM who is running the campaign as to allow them to shoehorn the Green into their own settings.

The two options that I was thinking about is that one inch = 100 miles, making the Green pretty large- a larger piece of a continent.
Or
one inch = 50 miles making the Green more claustrophobic and the cultures closer together with more interaction. I think either would work fine depending on what you prefer.

I am not sure how big the map they put in the PDF is, (as I have not bought the PDF and I am still waiting for the printed version), and I am not sure if they put the map on one or two pages in the Monograph. One inch should equal about the distance of the word “GREEN” on the Map.

If one inch equals a hundred miles then the distance between Jurate and the Riverstone is roughly 300 Miles. I think a canoe or boat should average about 20 miles per day on the river so the trip should take about 15 days. Experienced travelers paddling hard could make the trip in about 12 days. (I do not know if I mentioned it but the prevailing winds should come in from the ocean allowing boats to raise their sails on the trip up river and then lower their sails and ride the current to go back to the coast (this should allow the trip to be made a day or two shorter and not exhaust the characters so much).

but I do like your photoshopping!

Thanks, I am glad to hear that as toward the end I put a lot of time into working on the images and was not really sure how effective they were. I personally love role-playing books with a lot of pictures to wrap my imagination around.

[Puck]

While looking at the map I noticed I little mistake. The marker for temple grove should be further down river. It should be under the "G" in Grove. This really is a minor thing except that a scenario I was working on is located in that region.

By the way, does anyone use little markers or sets of cardboard cutouts when roleplaying? I have a number of these for the Green that I think I could put in the download sections. Long ago I used miniatures, but they are clunky and hard to transport. I started using little chits like those for the old Fantasy Trip a while ago and they work pretty well. While making the Green I took loads of images against a blue screen and they can be easily converted to a PDF, copied, and then cut out and glued to cardboard. If anyone has any use for these let me know.

[Trond]

Many thanks for the info! I think that each of the small squares in the large map equalling approx. 10 miles should be about right then, if I understand you correctly. I like to think in terms of kilometres, so I may change it somewhat (If I go with a smaller size, 1 square equalling 10 kilometres should give a size between the two options you mentioned).

I like using metal miniatures, but I also bought RPGs with small cardboard cutout-minis back in the day. Actually the two first RPG games I ever bought in the 80s both had cardboard cutouts (the Swedish "Drakar och Demoner" and MERP). I would love trying it again. Let us know if you make the PDF.