Todd Gamble's Cartographica: Journal of Maps

Rating:
Summary: Very Disapointing
Review: I was excited when I heard about this book because I loved the Todd Gamble maps I found on the Wizards of the Coast website (D&D Map-a-Week archive). The maps on wizards.com have sparked a number of adventure ideas and were all very high quality.

This book, however was a HUGE disappointment. Basically it is just a book of some uninteresting floor plans, dull tunnel mazes, overland maps with nothing but a river with a bridge or some such. Nothing at all sparked my interest. 62 pages of Blah.

To make matters worse, there are great big text blocks on every map that give the title of the map and the map scale, but they obscure part of the map. Also, many of the maps are printed so dark that it is very hard to even see what is drawn on them, and they would never photocopy.

I sent this book back. It was a total waste. I cant beleive that such a great cartographer would put out something this poor. I highly recommend you check out his stuff on wizards.com, but dont waste your money on this book.