Popularity of the Faerun Map?

tinkthank · #1 July 20th, 2004, 03:41 PM

Hello, thanks for all your effort!

I actually Emailed you with my feedback a while ago after DLing and trying out your map, but maybe it got spammed.

Your map is beautiful. I do not play on it, however, because it is just too large for me. 320 Provs sounds much better (that is still about 18-20 pro nation methinks).

Also, I like Machaka, and I tested your map on with Machaka, and found I had just way too much room.

Another issue was that I could not figure out the borders of the provinces; some type, even very subtle, would be helpful, especially because the "neigbors" filter is almost impossible to see (for me) against a light background. This was very frustrating at times. If your new and improved map were to have some borders, I would greatly like that.

I know nothing about Faerun -- where does it come from? Is this some popular fantasy author?

Thanks very much in advance.

Boron · #2 July 20th, 2004, 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by tinkthank:

I know nothing about Faerun -- where does it come from? Is this some popular fantasy author?

Thanks very much in advance.

faerun is the main world of d&d .
you said in another post that you owned neverwinter nights . it plays on faerun too .

the swordcoast , baldurs gate , amn , beregost ... ( locations from bg 1 + 2 ) , icewind dale and neverwinter , waterdeep and so on ( locations from nwn ) , the aunaroch ( nwn shadows of unrentide ) all can be found on the faerun map

there are other planes like the ones where you play on planescape torment in the d&d universe too but it is the main world

unfortunately i am no d&d expert and know it only from pc games .
i myself played for a long time DSA aka Das schwarze Auge with friends as pen&paper rpg .

but d&d is the most known fantasy pen & paper rpg in the world i think

Unknown_Enemy · #3 July 20th, 2004, 03:50 PM

Faerun : The Forgotten Realms is the fantasy world created in role play game Ad&d, who has been used in several computer RPG such as baldur's gate 1&2, icewind dale 1&2, neverwinter night and some I did not play.

This world's description is comprehensive and gave numerous RPG players long hours of game play.

tinkthank · #4 July 20th, 2004, 03:55 PM

Ah right thanks -- I knew it sounded familiar. I played D&D a lot too, but always had my own worlds (usually Tolkeinesque in nature)....

lol76 · #5 July 21st, 2004, 12:31 PM

Where can I download the faerun map? i checked arryns website, and ilwinter's. Can someone pleese supply a url?

Edi · #6 July 22nd, 2004, 02:16 PM

http://www.dom2minions.com/~tmpspace

Filename is Faerun.zip, but you shouldn't hurry too much. I'm asking a friend to upload both the new targa for the old Faerun map, the map files and the whole baggage for the new and smaller Faerun, so you'd better wait a couple of days.

Edi

Arryn · #7 July 22nd, 2004, 05:26 PM

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Originally posted by lol76:
Where can I download the faerun map? i checked arryns website, and ilwinter's. Can someone pleese supply a url?

Might I suggest that the next time you cannot find a file you're looking for that you send me an email asking me to make it available? It might save you some time and aggravation.

Assuming that Edi doesn't mind, I've put the file up on my site (so that people won't have to go crawling through forum Posts looking for a link), in RAR format which saves a bit of space and thus some download time. (My site also has much more download bandwidth.)