This is one of those products you see and then just have to buy straightaway - or it was in my case! From its bright, lively colours, through the excellent detail provided for each map, including evocative name-labels like Hardscrabble Vale, The Iron Sea, Skygard, Dreadmoon and many more, the juxtaposition of beautifully-drawn terrain features, the novel use of larger-scale hexagons for different land areas, and the provision of node-maps showing how to get from place to place, with notes on who-lives-where-doing-what-to-whom-and-why, to its intended 3D-look design layout, with mountain-peaks and other uplands extending beyond the hex boundaries, this just seemed a real delight. And so it's proven in reality!
A "normal"-setting home-inkjet printout will get you clear, fully legible text pages, though rather pale hex artwork, which latter is best realised using a suitably high-quality print setting on good matt photo paper or card with such a printer. The final maps could be mounted to thicker card hexagons (so the protruding-edge terrain can overlap the adjacent hexes still), and maybe even varnished, or laminated, to give them extra durability.
The descriptive node maps should give enough snippets of information to get the creative juices working for most GMs, if necessary. Some of the creatures referred to would have benefited from a little more detail, such as the pterripus (Midwaste & Jade Coast maps) and the ivory-bearing megaphant (Plainsea - presumably a form of huge elephant). Although the pterripus - a type of flying horse - did feature in Blue Boxer's prototype rulebook for the "Dungeonteller Fantasy RPG", still available in August 2015 on the publisher's blog as a free PDF, it didn't make the cut into the published rules or monster volumes unfortunately.
Maybe some cutting outlines - just a skywash blue background shading, say - could have helped novice papercrafters work out better where to cut the irregular map edges in places. Those with a little more experience won't need them though, and it's scarcely a real fault in this overall stunningly gorgeous set.
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