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BlackAce
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10 Mar 2011 : 14:28:54
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Originally posted by ErinMEvans
NOT A REASON: There was an RPG map. The RPG maps are full-color these days. To put one in a novel, it would have to be printed in grayscale. Grayscale printing costs more. Plus, it would look kind of shabby at the size of a paperback. You pretty much have to have a cartographer redraw it. A novel can sometimes use the map out of another novel, but then you get into the details of the cartographer's contract, which I know nothing about, and it would probably be tacky to talk about anyway.
 Really? I must admit I find that quite suprising, certainly in the later 3ed stuff, the maps were full color, but I've seen several (3ed) novels sport maps that were borrowed from older 2ed RPG sources. Interesting. |
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Maps in novels?
