Thanx-a-milion in advance, hope it's not to much trouble
RAAM
Wanderer's Journal 72 Basic information.
Wanderer's Chronicles 43 Revised information. Breakdown of warring factions. Notes on religious cults of Dregoth the Savior and Leviath the Calm.
Slave Tribes 16 The slave culture
Veiled Alliance 68 General city info. Alliance info. Alliance HQ at crematorium. Leader is Nanda Shatri (W20/Psi5.)
Earth Air Fire & Water 54 Templar notes.
Will and the Way 17 Notes on Psiumarkh, Yellow Monastery.
Complete Gladiator's Handbook 64 Notes and map for Natural Arena.
To actually read more than a pooling of references, you can get the books in pdf format, online and fast, for a ridiculous sum at www.svgames.com
There is also some info in the Official Timeline of Athas.
Also, the site Dark Sun Rising, from board member Cyrus9a, has in its Map section a very very good computer render of the city and a key for the map.
Well...anyone wants to add something?
BTW, do you know where I could find a scale for the wonberfull big map on Dark Sun Rising? Hays off to Cyrus for making those maps.
P.S. thanx for the help Pennarin.
Originally posted by The People
Thankyou, the only problem is is that I don't have acess to the listed books, but thanx for the information anyway.
If you have a home computer with internet access, and you have a credit card, you can have the entire Dark Sun line of products on your hard drive by tonight for less than a 100 bucks; which is, compared to what I had to pay for it all, a sweet deal. Althought I do like paper and ink.
BTW, do you know where I could find a scale for the wonberfull big map on Dark Sun Rising? Hays off to Cyrus for making those maps.
What you can do is look at the size of the buildings of Nibenay and compare it to the size of Salt View's buildings; you can see that Salt View's are bigger. Its represented in the scale on those two maps: Nibenay is by increments of 150 ft while for Salt View its 50 ft.
Looking at Raam's buildings, they're the same size as Nibenay's, so I'd say use Nibenay's scale in this case.
Probably just an honest omission on Cyrus9a's part, or he's playing it safe (since no official map of Raam exists).
Originally posted by The People
Sorry, I was refering to a scale of the large 'Known World' map, So I can know the distance between citys. But thanx for that anyway:D
Gab has a Distance Calculator on his web site. Although I don't know how he determined the distances (it could be from fluff in the books or from calculating with a scale the physical distance between the dots on the big map).
Gab could always tell you.
I just read through this thread and I had to make sure that I put a distance bar on my Known World map! Thankfully I did! If you look in the north-eastern most corner you will find it. Now I am curious... I made the bar pretty much like TSR did for the original maps but they were on paper and thus easier to measure with a ruler. My question is are the distance bars I provided adequate or do I need a little something extra like 1 inch = X miles and the like?
North east… I still can't see it, mabe I'm crazy…I'm sleepy. I've got the largest map, should I get one of the smaller ones? wit your meauring proble… would it be possible to do a grid or something…? just a thaught. need sleep… And Cyrus? Those maps are forking briliant keep up the…you get the picture.
PS I will look into the grid idea. I can always make a map that is covered by a hex or square grid. It would be very easy actually and a good idea. So which do you think would be better a hex or square grid?
Gab has a Distance Calculator on his web site. Although I don't know how he determined the distances (it could be from fluff in the books or from calculating with a scale the physical distance between the dots on the big map).
Gab could always tell you.
I'm not the one who calculated the distances between points. Chay0s did that; I think he used the cloth math and the scale on the map to calculate the distances. I just compiled everything and used Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest path. The algorithm is incorporated into the javascript on the webpage; the shortest route is calculated when you press the "Calculate" button. It could work for any map; I just need the distances between points.
Tiredness induces halucenegenic ideas that work!I'm gonna check them out now!
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