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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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.
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”.
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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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ERRATA noticed thus far:
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”.