Neither the first or the second picture are remotely acceptable in terms of quality. The file is too low-resolution to be fit for purpose, no matter how you view it.
The radio silence on this from WOTC is also a very poor show.
Who from WotC do you want to hear from on this? From the way you're speaking, it sounds like you want a press conference.
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Neither the first or the second picture are remotely acceptable in terms of quality. The file is too low-resolution to be fit for purpose, no matter how you view it.
The radio silence on this from WOTC is also a very poor show.
I matched Davyd's image up on my screen nearly 1:1 and that's showing a browser-based zoom on the full image of 160% as far as I can tell. Any image will show blurring when magnified by a browser. The full image is 4096x2918.
To be fair, it's not possible to get to the full image without extracting it from the site -- clicking the map should probably just load the file, rather than using the pop-up image viewer.
But, once one right-clicks it to get it in a new tab, then gets the browser to show it at full scale (clicking on the image in my case; I cannot speak for all browsers), it's ok. The text is generally legible, even though my glasses are overdue for a replacement. There's some text where the contrast is poor, and that is hard to read. If I use the OS's zoom (faster and easier to control than browser), it gets legible long before the quality gets bad. (This is about three steps in with browser zoom, and I don't see any pixilation.)
Neither the first or the second picture are remotely acceptable in terms of quality. The file is too low-resolution to be fit for purpose, no matter how you view it.
The radio silence on this from WOTC is also a very poor show.
I matched Davyd's image up on my screen nearly 1:1 and that's showing a browser-based zoom on the full image of 160% as far as I can tell. Any image will show blurring when magnified by a browser. The full image is 4096x2918.
To be fair, it's not possible to get to the full image without extracting it from the site -- clicking the map should probably just load the file, rather than using the pop-up image viewer.
But, once one right-clicks it to get it in a new tab, then gets the browser to show it at full scale (clicking on the image in my case; I cannot speak for all browsers), it's ok. The text is generally legible, even though my glasses are overdue for a replacement. There's some text where the contrast is poor, and that is hard to read. If I use the OS's zoom (faster and easier to control than browser), it gets legible long before the quality gets bad. (This is about three steps in with browser zoom, and I don't see any pixilation.)
This would be a device/browser/settings constraint as different platforms render/display images differently. For example, chrome and firefox both open the image either in an overlay or new tab/window depending on how I click it (left vs middle). In a new tab/window the zooming is constrained to differing degrees between firefox and chrome. On Safari if I middle click it prompts me to download the image.
USAGE: Page 133. Under “The Great Inventor”, Deryan Kaya is described as “a gnome inventor, artist, musician, and polymath.” This is incorrect, as a polymath is described as such by the fields of study they have mastered. It should read as something to the effect of “Deryan Kaya is a gnome polymath, excelling in the fields of invention, art, and music.”
CONSISTENCY: Page 157. Adventure Gods Long Forgotten features an editing brain-fart (NB: this is a technical term), namely, the adventure flavor text reads: “Pacify a quartet of troublesome deities.” Further down, under “Encounters” heading, it reads: “Four wayward deities are causing the disturbances.”; it then goes on to list and describe FIVE deities (Motanwe, Nimbus, Korus, Sholoban, and The Hukh); following the above under “Conclusion”, it reads, “If three of the five deities …”
SPELLING: Page 201. Map of The Unrolling Scroll misspells “Rehearsal Room” as “Rehersal Room”.
So I ordered the Physical and Digital bundle. For both Heroes and Adventures. Got the digital stuff. No Physical books have arrived. I tried a support thing to no response. When you buy the bundle but dont get the Physical- where is the support option? And I am in the UK so international. The help pages give no contact details, AI tool gave a form which appears to never get a response from. First ticket raised was days ago to no response.
You should be able to check your order status on dndstore.wizards.com.
Support tickets are answered in the order they’re received, so the wait time can vary depending on how many tickets are ahead of yours. They’re also answered during regular business hours in the US, so you’re not likely to get a response during weekends or holidays.
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is this a oversight they mentioned new linages but then gave them no new features or remixed features nothing to make a build on im a lil upset on this and want to know where the cool features are located for liniages and i dont wana accept a look in the player hand book becuse the new book should be able stand on its own so lil help im lil lost in Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Neither the first or the second picture are remotely acceptable in terms of quality. The file is too low-resolution to be fit for purpose, no matter how you view it.
The radio silence on this from WOTC is also a very poor show.
I matched Davyd's image up on my screen nearly 1:1 and that's showing a browser-based zoom on the full image of 160% as far as I can tell. Any image will show blurring when magnified by a browser. The full image is 4096x2918.
To be fair, it's not possible to get to the full image without extracting it from the site -- clicking the map should probably just load the file, rather than using the pop-up image viewer.
But, once one right-clicks it to get it in a new tab, then gets the browser to show it at full scale (clicking on the image in my case; I cannot speak for all browsers), it's ok. The text is generally legible, even though my glasses are overdue for a replacement. There's some text where the contrast is poor, and that is hard to read. If I use the OS's zoom (faster and easier to control than browser), it gets legible long before the quality gets bad. (This is about three steps in with browser zoom, and I don't see any pixilation.)
This would be a device/browser/settings constraint as different platforms render/display images differently. For example, chrome and firefox both open the image either in an overlay or new tab/window depending on how I click it (left vs middle). In a new tab/window the zooming is constrained to differing degrees between firefox and chrome. On Safari if I middle click it prompts me to download the image.
This is an excerpt of the 4096x2918 resolution map zoomed into the region of Thay.
Please tell me the name of the rivers in this zoomed in excerpt of the atlas.
Here is another excerpt zoomed in above the Thunder Peaks. What is the name of these two passes?
Please, at least provide a downloadable file that doubles the resolution of the Atlas. Even higher resolution would be preferred.
Looks to me like "Thazarim River" and "River of the Dawn".
"Thazarim" not "Thazarun"? "Dawn" makes contextual sense since it is flowing out of the Sunrise Mountains, but I would not call it legible.
Could be "Thazarun". Though I just looked it up and Thazarim is right. It looks about equally likely and I got it right.
Pray tell, where did you look it up?
Regardless, my point is the script is illegible and that the Atlas should have a higher resolution option made available. I can provide several more examples of illegible script, such as the rivers in Rasheman (Rasha River is obvious, but the others are not), or the rivers near the Spider Swamp and Almraiven east of Calimshan, or the rivers and passes in the Graypeak Mts., or the passes in the Rauvin Mts. The resolution of the currently provided Atlas is too low; I think a file with double the resolution would meet the minimum, but vector graphics would be ideal in my opinion.
is this a oversight they mentioned new linages but then gave them no new features or remixed features nothing to make a build on im a lil upset on this and want to know where the cool features are located for liniages and i dont wana accept a look in the player hand book becuse the new book should be able stand on its own so lil help im lil lost in Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
What exactly do you mean by "lineages"? That was a term used in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft but it isn't used in that context in the 2024 material.
This book is not intended to "stand on its own" without the core books. It's a setting guide, not a replacement for the core rules.
I just searched both names and a wiki came up for one of them and not the other. Has a bunch of past references to it.
I have to guess the size of the map presented is likely similar to the resolution printed with the book.
They have a higher resolution Atlas on MapsVTT. They can easily provide a download link with the Atlas in the digital book appendices. For reference, this is an excerpt from the map in MapsVTT:
It doesn't make any sense that they haven't at least provided a link to the 8k resolution Atlas, but instead hide it in MapsVTT where someone needs to maneuver through the program to download a copy for personal use.
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Who from WotC do you want to hear from on this? From the way you're speaking, it sounds like you want a press conference.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
To be fair, it's not possible to get to the full image without extracting it from the site -- clicking the map should probably just load the file, rather than using the pop-up image viewer.
But, once one right-clicks it to get it in a new tab, then gets the browser to show it at full scale (clicking on the image in my case; I cannot speak for all browsers), it's ok. The text is generally legible, even though my glasses are overdue for a replacement. There's some text where the contrast is poor, and that is hard to read. If I use the OS's zoom (faster and easier to control than browser), it gets legible long before the quality gets bad. (This is about three steps in with browser zoom, and I don't see any pixilation.)
This would be a device/browser/settings constraint as different platforms render/display images differently. For example, chrome and firefox both open the image either in an overlay or new tab/window depending on how I click it (left vs middle). In a new tab/window the zooming is constrained to differing degrees between firefox and chrome. On Safari if I middle click it prompts me to download the image.
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USAGE: Page 133. Under “The Great Inventor”, Deryan Kaya is described as “a gnome inventor, artist, musician, and polymath.” This is incorrect, as a polymath is described as such by the fields of study they have mastered. It should read as something to the effect of “Deryan Kaya is a gnome polymath, excelling in the fields of invention, art, and music.”
CONSISTENCY: Page 157. Adventure Gods Long Forgotten features an editing brain-fart (NB: this is a technical term), namely, the adventure flavor text reads: “Pacify a quartet of troublesome deities.” Further down, under “Encounters” heading, it reads: “Four wayward deities are causing the disturbances.”; it then goes on to list and describe FIVE deities (Motanwe, Nimbus, Korus, Sholoban, and The Hukh); following the above under “Conclusion”, it reads, “If three of the five deities …”
SPELLING: Page 201. Map of The Unrolling Scroll misspells “Rehearsal Room” as “Rehersal Room”.
So I ordered the Physical and Digital bundle. For both Heroes and Adventures. Got the digital stuff. No Physical books have arrived. I tried a support thing to no response. When you buy the bundle but dont get the Physical- where is the support option? And I am in the UK so international. The help pages give no contact details, AI tool gave a form which appears to never get a response from. First ticket raised was days ago to no response.
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ModeratorThe physical book releases in the UK on Dec. 12th (regardless of where you order from).
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2039-d-d-release-dates-for-emea-region-in-2025
You should be able to check your order status on dndstore.wizards.com.
Support tickets are answered in the order they’re received, so the wait time can vary depending on how many tickets are ahead of yours. They’re also answered during regular business hours in the US, so you’re not likely to get a response during weekends or holidays.
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Cultist of Myrkul uses the portrait of the Cultist of Bhaal in D&D Beyond which is the wrong character in the book's art. (should be the rearmost character - https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/fraif/mYHBzcAm7DEVWmcR/09-005.cultists.png)
Cultist of Bane portrait is too zoomed out.
The Digital versions of the book seem to lack the Calendar that is in the physical one.
is this a oversight they mentioned new linages but then gave them no new features or remixed features nothing to make a build on im a lil upset on this and want to know where the cool features are located for liniages and i dont wana accept a look in the player hand book becuse the new book should be able stand on its own so lil help im lil lost in Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
This is an excerpt of the 4096x2918 resolution map zoomed into the region of Thay.
Please tell me the name of the rivers in this zoomed in excerpt of the atlas.
Here is another excerpt zoomed in above the Thunder Peaks. What is the name of these two passes?
Please, at least provide a downloadable file that doubles the resolution of the Atlas. Even higher resolution would be preferred.
Looks to me like "Thazarim River" and "River of the Dawn".
"Thazarim" not "Thazarun"? "Dawn" makes contextual sense since it is flowing out of the Sunrise Mountains, but I would not call it legible.
Could be "Thazarun". Though I just looked it up and Thazarim is right. It looks about equally likely and I got it right.
Pray tell, where did you look it up?
Regardless, my point is the script is illegible and that the Atlas should have a higher resolution option made available. I can provide several more examples of illegible script, such as the rivers in Rasheman (Rasha River is obvious, but the others are not), or the rivers near the Spider Swamp and Almraiven east of Calimshan, or the rivers and passes in the Graypeak Mts., or the passes in the Rauvin Mts. The resolution of the currently provided Atlas is too low; I think a file with double the resolution would meet the minimum, but vector graphics would be ideal in my opinion.
I just searched both names and a wiki came up for one of them and not the other. Has a bunch of past references to it.
I have to guess the size of the map presented is likely similar to the resolution printed with the book.
What exactly do you mean by "lineages"? That was a term used in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft but it isn't used in that context in the 2024 material.
This book is not intended to "stand on its own" without the core books. It's a setting guide, not a replacement for the core rules.
pronouns: he/she/they
They have a higher resolution Atlas on MapsVTT. They can easily provide a download link with the Atlas in the digital book appendices. For reference, this is an excerpt from the map in MapsVTT:
It doesn't make any sense that they haven't at least provided a link to the 8k resolution Atlas, but instead hide it in MapsVTT where someone needs to maneuver through the program to download a copy for personal use.