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  • August 28, 2015 at 11:58 pm #151977
    Anonymous
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    Hello everyone,

    I’m pleased to say that Andy Law’s masterpiece, the map of the First City, was completed today and I’ve just sent it off to all backers.

    The map will arrive as a PDF attachment to an email from PCIHenry@gmail.com

    I did have a few emails bounce and I’ll contact those backers directly for an updated email address.

    I hope all of you are as happy with this map as I am. Andy did an amazing job with this very intricate and complex map, which required him to draw each individual building/structure/topographical point by hand. His work has brought the First City to life and ready for use in the Legends of Arcanis campaign as well as your home games!

    Thank you all again for your continued patience and support.

    August 29, 2015 at 12:12 am #269505
    Anonymous
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    ::paws screen::

    Great, now Amanda is yelling at me for getting finger and tongue prints on the monitor!

    August 29, 2015 at 12:15 am #269506
    Anonymous
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    So, the map’s out in the wild? Exciting!

    I hope everyone likes it. \":D\"

    August 29, 2015 at 12:34 am #269507
    Anonymous
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    It is truly a thing of beauty. I have had the benefit of seeing many progressive stages of it and I have been dying for the final to be released to discuss with others.

    August 29, 2015 at 1:34 am #269508
    Anonymous
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    It looks awesome! Of course now I want to know all about the various different districts and the places of note. \":)\"

    With a sweep of his hat,

    Paul

    August 29, 2015 at 3:39 am #269509
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    Beautiful! Where is Litera Scripta Manet? Does it make it into the book? As of right now it is one of the few places in the city I do know!

    August 29, 2015 at 3:47 am #269510
    drafit
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    If you read the accompanying legends, you’ll see it there, in the Trade District.

    August 29, 2015 at 3:52 am #269511
    Anonymous
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    Beautiful! Where is Litera Scripta Manet?

    Trade district, #5.

    With a sweep of his hat,

    Paul

    August 29, 2015 at 4:01 am #269512
    Anonymous
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    Can we get a list of all the special businesses from the Kickstarter? I know of a few but I don’t think all.

    August 29, 2015 at 5:16 am #269513
    Anonymous
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    Archer’s Folly is one. It is in Rhamul district (#56). I think it is a bar/gambling den.

    August 29, 2015 at 6:42 am #269514
    frootsnax
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    So, the map’s out in the wild? Exciting! I hope everyone likes it. \":D\"
    Yes! Exciting & I like it! It was a long wait, but the map is outstanding! Really outstanding. It eclipses the (good) maps done of the cities of Old Coran & Nishanpur. Apparently good things DO come to people who wait. Thank you!

    Where is Litera Scripta Manet? Does it make it into the book? As of right now it is one of the few places in the city I do know!
    Litera Scripta Manet is on the (presumably) western edge of the city just a block or two above the Patriarch’s Gate/Gatehouse. I’m tickled. Both with the actual location, and that someone here on the forum has asked! Basically you come up the crisscrossing road and into the city then take the first left turn off the main thoroughfare. At the next intersection turn right and look for it on the right hand side. Tukufu says, come visit! Whoo-hoo! \":D\"

    Can we get a list of all the special businesses from the Kickstarter? I know of a few but I don’t think all.
    I know the first three and Matt has fingered the fourth.
    #5 Litera Scripta Manet (Bookstore) (mine)
    #8 Dark Teasures Curio Shop (Curio Shop) (Harliquin’s)
    #53 Academy of Epics & Songs (School & Performance Hall) (Hat’s)
    #56 Archer’s Folly

    I know there are more than this. But I’ve forgotten the exact number. 6? 8? 12?

    August 29, 2015 at 6:55 am #269515
    frootsnax
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    The Map does raise some questions for me.

    The Endless Choir is located … in the Unclean Quarter?!? Uh, how does that work? How do they get supplies? How does one visit it? (to both, presumably very carefully…)

    Where are the docks? Do they somehow connect to the Pearl? To the Patriarch’s Gate? To the Lift? I can’t tell from looking at the map. If it does go to the Lift what happens to the buildings shown bellow in Traders Point?

    August 29, 2015 at 9:46 am #269516
    Anonymous
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    Wow! It looks great. Good job Andy and all others involved.

    I’m still playing Crusade Arc scenarios, but I can’t wait to get to the First City.

    August 29, 2015 at 11:31 am #269517
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    One of the first things that struck me upon looking at the map was all the cool locations that can now pop up in mods. Like the racetrack (hippodrome) or the gladiator schools (although according to Wikipedia a ludus can be any sort of school–but I suspect these train gladiators). Even though it seems like up to now all the First City mods have been hard points, is there any reason someone couldn’t write a Soft Point set in the First City or Blessed Lands (once authors have the book in hand)?

    On a related note is it possible to print this map out in a large enough format for framing or hanging on a wall without losing detail or resolution?

    Also if Andy’s at Origins or GenCon next year I want to see if I can get this signed. It really is a nice map, now I’m eagerly awaiting the “big” map.

    August 29, 2015 at 11:55 am #269518
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    Can’t express how happy I am that you all mostly seem to love the map — it makes all the work worthwhile.

    Also if Andy’s at Origins or GenCon next year I want to see if I can get this signed. It really is a nice map, now I’m eagerly awaiting the “big” map.
    I would love to attend either, but I’m in Scotland, which doesn’t make travelling to such events an easy, or cheap, prospect.

    That said, I’ll be visiting the States at some point in the next year or two — my brother-in-law and his family have just moved out to LA — so maybe I could kill two birds with one stone?

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