Re: We need a good map...(?)

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From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:03:28 GMT

> From dummy Wed Feb 29 12:12:12 1990

Simon Hibbs, on Crap Maps:
> As I understand it, this is in fact a deliberate policy. The situation a
> player character map collector has should be no better than the
> situation a map collector in the real world would have had a thousand or
> more years ago.

Mind, you, look how good Gloranthan _world_ maps are! These are rather superb compared to what you'd get around 1500 AD, much less 500 AD, or 500 BC, or 1500 BC (subsequent 'Bronze Age flamewar cheerfully ignored <g>).