>>95905043
those other anons have put it perfectly. i'm fine with the guy being successful, i do think a couple of the extra goodies are neat (the cloth map would be cool to have around).

>>95905881
>it was pitched as a setting/hexcrawl
>keying every single hex on a huge map
i think this was was always the idea. the problem is it suffered from bloat-creep and went from one book to two, then two books to three, then three books + a new game system (that is 'familiar' but not B/X or 1:1 B/X-compatible).

i really did just want a nice, one-book gazetteer based on what we saw in Wormskin and other Dolmenwood books. maybe some pages would cover multiple hexes, perhaps some hexes were intentionally empty (that's fine).
and yeah creatively i followed a lot of his decisions, like renaming 'Goat-men' to 'Goat-folk' or whatever (can't have sexism with the masochistic aristocrats). and a lot of the art, frankly, is kind of shit. this player map is cute i guess, but i don't like the weird slant, and it looks a bit TOO child-like.
conversely, he was hyping up how the referee map would have all these PDF layer features... it just looks a bit flat and digital.
the original 'parchment' map looks really good.