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The Game Master’s Book of Random Encounters Digital Map Pack

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This digital map package includes every location map featured in the full edition of the Game Master's Book of Random Encounters.

The maps are stripped to their purest form—no legends or keys or little numbers that direct you to descriptive copy; all that information is available to you in the full version of the book. If you don’t own the full version, that’s OK! These maps will still be of use, but only as visual examples of generic settings that will occasionally include features for which you’ll have to improvise descriptions. Which is fine! That said, you’ll likely get a bit more use (and, if we do say so ourselves, enjoyment) out of this map pack when you pair it with the full version of the book.

If you are the (hopefully proud) owner of the full version of the Game Master's Book of Random Encounters, you’ll find the maps presented here are organized by section as they appear in the book’s table of contents. You should also feel free to ignore the author’s original intention for these locations and use them however you like—that’s what they’re for.

Unless otherwise noted, the grid and scale of the maps is 1 block = 5 ft. Whether you utilize these maps in a virtual table top as part of an online campaign or take them to a professional printer and blow them up several hundred times so you can shepherd your players through a to-scale version of these locations in person, we hope you enjoy playing with this material as much as we did creating of it

The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters Digital Map Pack includes notation-free maps as .PDF files suitable for:
  • GM reference
  • home printing
  • virtual tabletops

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Gardner A September 30, 2023 4:59 pm UTC
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Bought this - it's true that it is a single PDF, making it less useful for VTTs, but - if you are savvy - you can work with it:

1. Go to pdfcandy.com and extract the images. The images extract as LAYERS, with some layers having their colors inverted, so more steps follow!
2. Save any images you want to work with PLUS one of the background parchment images.
3. Open the background parchment image in GIMP.
4. Open *as layer* from the file menu the map you want to work with. (Note: if the map is in landscape view, you should first rotate the image 90 as well as the parchment layer 90.)
5. While the map layer is selected, go to the Colors menu and invert the colors.
6. While the map layer is selected, go to the Layer menu, Transparency, and add an alpha channel.
7. While the map layer is selected, go to the Layer menu, Transparency, and "Color to Alpha" - default settings should be fine here if you followed the above steps.
8. Your map should look like...See more
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Felix B March 08, 2023 8:46 pm UTC
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I bought it out of convenience. I was looking forward to enlarging the maps to one inch per five feet for playing with minis, but sadly, the resolution of the pdf maps is sup par. So I did scan the maps from the hardcover (which I love!) after all.

I hope that high resolution maps will be added (again).
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Robert B February 20, 2023 7:53 pm UTC
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How come this is now a PDF not the individual maps?
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Stuart F February 15, 2023 3:21 am UTC
Why do you need to own the physical book and still pay for maps?
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Ralph T February 20, 2023 12:00 am UTC
I agree. This is something that should be included with the book (pdf version at least) The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters. I have purchased many other source books and adventure books that included not only a PDF version of the maps but also the maps in separate images for VTT. All for the same price and some where roughly $5 more.
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Michael F August 11, 2023 12:27 pm UTC
The fact that these are being sold separately is REALLY disappointing. If you purchase a physical book, these should be included.
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François P January 04, 2023 12:49 pm UTC
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If you are planning to buy those for virtual tabletops. Don't they are black and white and it's only a pdf. You also cannot pull the image out of the pdf without having a black image.
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Darren D November 09, 2022 11:41 pm UTC
I was looking to get this mainly for the one shot "An Actor's life" but saw conflicting comments on the map's existence in this down load. Is this missing, or is it present?
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Hans C December 09, 2022 8:25 pm UTC
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Still only PDF
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Hans C November 07, 2022 3:20 am UTC
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Only PDF, no hi-res image files for VTT.
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gabriel P August 29, 2022 4:56 pm UTC
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Looks like some of the files are missing, Only PDF is available now
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Michael P May 08, 2022 11:57 pm UTC
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Was hoping to use the maps from "An Actor's Life" and "One Last Job". All of them seem to be missing and I checked all the folders three times. It seems to be a common complaint from the other people posting about this. Your products so far have been great. I eagerly await your 3rd book to be released soon.
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Jesse M April 09, 2022 2:27 pm UTC
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I see that many people are complaining that it is missing the adventure maps. I was gifted the brand new physical hard back book but I want to put them on a VTT. I cannot justify having my wife spend $17 to give me this then to spend another $10 for just the maps.

Has anyone heard back from the content creator in regards to the missing maps?
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Stuart J March 16, 2022 7:43 pm UTC
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The map pack is missing 3 maps from the One-Shot adventures (Theater, Guilderoy's Island, and the Safehouse), and the maps in the Homes, Hideouts, Labs, and Lairs folder are improperly labeled due to the Witch House map being labeled as "Variant Castles"
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Edward R March 16, 2022 1:24 am UTC
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Here's a dumb question. Does anyone know the dimensions for blowing up these maps for use as 1 inch equals 5 feet? I want to print them and use them on the table.
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Samuel R March 01, 2022 4:02 pm UTC
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I am going to be requesting a refund.
"This digital map package includes every location map featured in the full edition of the Game Master's Book of Random Encounters."
This is not accurate. I made the purchase to save me time scanning in and correcting the orientation of the maps in the one shots (Presto Change-O). No maps from the one shots are in this download. It only has:

Homes_Hiseouts_Labs_Lairs
Rooftops_Alleysways_Tunnels
Taverns_Inns_Shops_Guild Halls
Temples_Tombs_Crypts
The Great Outdoors
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Samuel R March 01, 2022 4:16 pm UTC
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I was wrong on this. They do actually have these maps. I was looking through the folders and found the one shot maps spread out in the other subdirectories.

The festival map from Presto is in The Great Outdoors and Holds Stronghold is in Homes/hideouts/labs. This wasn't very clear, but they did provide all these maps.
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Dylan M February 16, 2022 3:39 pm UTC
I've purchased the hardcover from Amazon, is there anyway I can use the PDF version of the book?
Seems a little strange buying a more premium product but being locked out of the digital version.
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Jesse M March 29, 2022 12:52 am UTC
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Did you ever get a response to this? I am in the same position. My wife purchased the very nice hard cover book but the maps are not great for Virtual Table tops or even in person if I were to want to show the players.
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Dave M January 23, 2022 1:00 am UTC
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A lot of the maps in the zip has the wrong name.

Of the ones I'm using, Labor Camp is labeled Regular Prison; Wretchtown is labeled The Witch Hut..

I imagine what happened is they were named the entry BEFORE the map, where the pattern in the book is to have the map first.
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Hyperion P January 08, 2022 5:17 am UTC
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I wish there was a legend stating the dimensions of each battle map for quick and easy upload to vtt.
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