Yes! Exciting & I like it! It was a long wait, but the map is outstanding! Really outstanding. It eclipses the (good) maps done of the cities of Old Coran & Nishanpur. Apparently good things DO come to people who wait. Thank you!


Litera Scripta Manet is on the (presumably) western edge of the city just a block or two above the Patriarch's Gate/Gatehouse. I'm tickled. Both with the actual location, and that someone here on the forum has asked! Basically you come up the crisscrossing road and into the city then take the first left turn off the main thoroughfare. At the next intersection turn right and look for it on the right hand side. Tukufu says, come visit! Whoo-hoo!


I know the first three and Matt has fingered the fourth.
#5 Litera Scripta Manet (Bookstore) (mine)
#8 Dark Teasures Curio Shop (Curio Shop) (Harliquin's)
#53 Academy of Epics & Songs (School & Performance Hall) (Hat's)
#56 Archer's Folly

I know there are more than this. But I've forgotten the exact number. 6? 8? 12?

The Map does raise some questions for me.

The Endless Choir is located ... in the Unclean Quarter?!? Uh, how does that work? How do they get supplies? How does one visit it? (to both, presumably very carefully...)

Where are the docks? Do they somehow connect to the Pearl? To the Patriarch's Gate? To the Lift? I can't tell from looking at the map. If it does go to the Lift what happens to the buildings shown bellow in Traders Point?

Wow! It looks great. Good job Andy and all others involved.

I'm still playing Crusade Arc scenarios, but I can't wait to get to the First City.

One of the first things that struck me upon looking at the map was all the cool locations that can now pop up in mods. Like the racetrack (hippodrome) or the gladiator schools (although according to Wikipedia a ludus can be any sort of school--but I suspect these train gladiators). Even though it seems like up to now all the First City mods have been hard points, is there any reason someone couldn't write a Soft Point set in the First City or Blessed Lands (once authors have the book in hand)?

On a related note is it possible to print this map out in a large enough format for framing or hanging on a wall without losing detail or resolution?

Also if Andy's at Origins or GenCon next year I want to see if I can get this signed. It really is a nice map, now I'm eagerly awaiting the "big" map.

Can't express how happy I am that you all mostly seem to love the map -- it makes all the work worthwhile.


I would love to attend either, but I'm in Scotland, which doesn't make travelling to such events an easy, or cheap, prospect.

That said, I'll be visiting the States at some point in the next year or two -- my brother-in-law and his family have just moved out to LA -- so maybe I could kill two birds with one stone?

No need to wait! At GenCon during a runnning of Henry's newest HP the table was having diffculty getting info. They were asking the right questions, but to the completely wrong people. So, I had their investigation lead to Dark Treasures




Speaking of the Circus Septimus, how would you like to be one of the plebes who got nosebleed seats in the SW corner of that monster? You look over the edge, and you are staring all the way down to the base of the Plateau of Dagha!!!



I have an unfinished room in my house that I want to turn into a medieval pub/gaming room. This map makes me want to finish that room asap and do exactly that. If it would be cost-effective for PCI to have large prints made, it would totally be a "shut up and take my money!" situation.

Darn makes me want to go there and have a mini-con at your house Matt. First chance I get I'm going to take the file to Staples and see how big a print I can make.

BTW are those Ludii gladiator schools?

Hello everyone,

I'm glad everyone is enjoying the map. I think we can all agree that Andy Law outdid himself with this one!

We are looking into pricing the cost of producing unfolded poster size maps suitable for pinning up on a wall. Thus far the pricing looks very reasonable, though the mailing tubes are (thus far) a bit expensive.

There were five player owned businesses unlocked during the Kickstarter. Matt has identified four. The fifth is "The Wandering Eye" (#57) a Sarishan comfort house (i.e. a brothel).

I am assuming so, but that is a Henry question. I have been trying to figure out the roots of their names. My guess is they are ludii ascribed to certain families, as opposed to being named after some distinctive gladiatorial style. Otherwise, the closest I have been able to find would make the Ludus Carnatae the "School of Obesity" and the Ludus Polyceti the "School of Many Big Fish"

A Sarishan brothel....one can only imagine what goes on in there...