From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: World Atlas...was World Map
Date:	Thu, 22 May 1997 11:34:49 +0100

Avenger said on 23:52/21 May 97...

> >Have you tried the individual states tourist board ( or whatever ). They
> >will probably send you a map for free.
>
> Finding the addresses for these places isn't particularly easy, then I
> have to pay overseas postage rates :( Whichever passage I try to follow
> it ends up costing silly amounts of money.

Or having to wait for ages -- American companies etc. are somewhat
notorious for taking ages to ship things out of the country. Two, three,
or four months can be rule instead of exception if they decide to use
surface mail :(

> To be fair, I don't really expect FASA to produce well detailed maps of
> cities, if I'm going to run a game in a city, it's really down to me to
> get a map of that city, but the world map, would most certainly be
> damned helpful.

IMO all it would have to do is show the borders and names of countries, so
players know what country is where, much like with the city maps.

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