The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching.
#Curse of strahd maps pdf#
Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. We DMs can use all the help we can get – and I hope you find this "map" to be extremely helpful. This is simply a helpful "map" for planning your encounters, motivations, and directions. Curse of Strahd is required reading for any DM who wants to run the campaign. There's no way that would fit on a single poster with this type of layout. As such it does NOT describe the entire ways interactions or motivations should go. It is something of a guide, a cheat-sheet, a reminder of who may be related to whom. NOTE: this document in NO WAY replaces the intricacies of the Curse of Strahd campaign materials. I have been able to print it myself on two separate 11x17" pages and tape it together quite well.
#Curse of strahd maps free#
However you are more than free to simply peruse it to take notes, or print out smaller more manageable sections. This single-paged PDF file is scaled to be printed as an 18x24" poster sized foldout. Blue tends to be uninvolved or not-necessarily plot-moving characters – but rest assured they're all important! Also the size of their name-circles is a little suggestion as to how important their are to the plot. Green tends to be protagonistic, red tends to be antagonistic. I've colored the circles of the people in rough accordance to their plot alignment, if not their actual character alignment. I have painstakingly gone through the book and marked out the most important NPC relationships and even many of the ones that are optional flavor. That's why I took the time to craft this detailed "relationship map" for Curse of Strahd.
Find some items, slay the big bad bloodsucker. But as any DM who has looked over the book in detail knows, forgetting (or worse: misrepresenting!) the relationships of the NPCs can go a long way to tangle and derail an intricate campaign. On the surface CoS looks like a simple adventure. There are relatives, intrigue and shadowy groups, friends, enemies, hunters and hunted, estranged children, long lost lovers, the dead returning for vengeance and the drunk seeking fortunes.
#Curse of strahd maps cracked#
Any ambitious DM who has cracked the cover to the wonderful 5e campaign Curse of Strahd knows how incredibly complicated and interrelated the stories are of the many, many NPCs your players will encounter on their perilous journeys.
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