The 2 pits on the top and bottom are pretty cool. They also are just big enough to where any normal speed character with flight cant fly over them cause they are 13 squares long, but you can fly onto the platform and back off it which is hellacool.

LOL, it's almost like someone designed it as 13 squares long, hahaha.

Nice work, Deri.

Yeah honestly, I'd have Deri Morgan desiningg all my maps in the future.

Awwww. Then I'll never get my chance to be part of the Master's Series

Hmm.. a masters series part 2...sounds interesting! We actually have 2 more maps we need to finish for that. still. I don't see why I couldn't add another map into queue!

Speaking of which....what's the latest on those??? Hmmm?

thanks for bumping this. I havn't looked at it for a long while.

Thanks to Weeks and JC for the kind words about RenVar. I had fun designing that and it seems to play pretty much how i envisioned. Usually a mid map scrum with options for flanking.

I feel this thread is important for anyone getting into the game.

Maps are a vital resource for the game and with the increasing difficulty in obtaining WotC maps i feel threads like this should be put into a separate forum where people can discuss maps, as well as stickies with links of where and how to obtain them.

The forum would have links to the Holocron map list, Maps of Mastery, anywhere where Matt hosts/sells maps and would have a sticky with the list of current restricted, standard and open map lists.

Its quite a lot of work but the payoff would be anyone could find and browse available maps to aquire and discuss.

I want to express my opinion of this, but I don't want it to diminish any of our communities awesome mapmakers hard work.

I also don't want to have this reflect negatively on Brad or anyone else playtesting the custom maps for legality. If anything - it makes their work all the more important.

This is just my 2 cents:

Tripling our restricted map list size is a big mistake. I think even doubling it is too many. Everyone is always for more maps, more maps, more maps. I am too - but not for the restricted list. I love a wide variety of maps for fun games, scenarios, even relaxed tournaments. But for the RESTRICTED LIST, I think it needs to be a SMALL LIST. It needs to be only the cream of the crop. The best, LEAST ABUSABLE maps.

Map strategy and squad synergy with a map should always be a part of the game, but a minor part, as opposed to a dominant part. Squad building and gameplay should remain larger components. We don't want the map dice roll to become what wins a game, except in very rare cases of evenly matched squads run by evenly matched players.

In 2007, Kelly won Gencon in no small part due to using a peculiar map to his advantage. It lead to a huge uproar to ban Geonosis (along with Mustafar). In 2008 the Hardboard was definitely a large part of Bill's strategy, and in 2009 Deri won maproll on all 3 finals matches to play on his trainstation. All three are excellent players, and used those strategies brilliantly - please don't misinterpret - I am not taking anything away from them. Would they have done well had they lost more map rolls? Maybe. But maps played a big part.

In 2010 - the map list was more restricted than ever. It was painstakingly selected and worked out great. From what I saw - the final 8 had little to do with map rolls being won. In fact - virtually no top squad was map dependant. It was a great testament to how good those players were and what great squads they had.

Let me clarify more - the NUMBER of maps on the restricted list isn't important. It's the level of abusability. With a higher number, some will inevitably slip through the cracks, and become abused.

I came up with a great strategy on Taris and won the Chicago Regional 2009. So that year tons of other players hopped on board and did the same, and the next year it was banned. (Rightfully so)

I see similar problems with many of these maps.

I hope we get a much, MUCH smaller list for Regionals and GenCon