![]() Tape the trimmed sheets together, where they match on the printed image. Take the printed sheets home and use a hobby knife and a ruler (or scissors, if that's all you have), and trim off the white borders where the image was not printed, on each sheet.ĥ. Paper size must be the same as whatever you chose in PosteRazor.Ĥ. Take/send your PDF file to your local print shop, and ask them to print each page of the PDF file on your chosen paper size (I use US Letter size). Regarding its size, PosteRazor is a slick software that needs less free space than the average program in the Utilities & Tools category. It belongs to the category Utilities & Tools and the subcategory Printer & Fax, and has been developed by Posterazor. ![]() The last step, once you have the settings how you want them, is to export it into a PDF document, for print.ģ. PosteRazor is a free (gpl) software also available for Windows. You can select the papersize (I choose US Letter size), printer margins, overlapping size (for where individual sheets meet), image size/scale, and image alignment. Upload the map image file into PosteRazor, and choose your settings based on your desired output. It's a freeware program that can output a PDF file that separates a larger image into smaller sections that can be printed on regular sized paper. However, if you print them onto several sheets of regular printer paper and tape them together, it's much cheaper, usually only costing a few dollars. It can run anywhere from $40-$100 or more, in some places. Printing a map this size on one sheet requires poster sized prints, which is really expensive. If people like them, I may post more, because I have made a lot of maps, and I plan to make a lot more! Just keep in mind they are free, and were originally meant for just me and my friends to have a "pretty" set piece at our weekly game table. But while I am still learning how to illustrate the maps to read better, I felt like I would share them, here. I never intended to share my battlemaps here, and there's things I would change if I knew I was going to share them online, where countless experts can view and judge. I have more interesting maps coming, once I get through these first ones that I did. So while it could be better, it works well enough. They are pretty simple, because I just wanted something nicer looking than a chessex dry erase battlemat. The 1.25' grid is, I have found, a better scale with modern miniatures and tends to make the map feel more believable and less crowded. If your game has a big part of it in a sewer, than it might be useful to have several map variants, for random encounters. Here are are the maps for Death House from Curse of Strahd, edited to be scaled to a 1.25' grid, and printable on normal 8.5x11 paper. I actually drew 4 different maps to use, for random sewer encounters. Then they use the rubble to set traps in (which my players discovered the hard way). The bandits in my campaign dispose of the empty/looted crates, from shipments they steal, in the sewers. The crates that are everywhere are specific to my campaign. ***Free to use, for non-profit/non-commercial purposes.***
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