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Quiddle
2014-05-01, 12:17 AM
As I understand the usefulness of well made world maps both for informing the party about the setting but also as a way to increase immersion. I am not great at drawing maps and thought that WoW maps would be perfect for nearly any place( since there are so many maps). Unfortunately all the maps have labels with WoW stuff on them. Any advice on how I could remove those labels?


Edit: maybe this should go in arts and crafts.....

Quiddle
2014-05-01, 12:19 AM
Saving for uploading cleaned off WoW maps

LokiRagnarok
2014-05-01, 06:13 AM
Hey, I'm not a lawyer, but I suspect you uploading the maps with WoW symbols removed might be violation of copyright or somesuch.

AttilaTheGeek
2014-05-01, 11:20 AM
Hey, I'm not a lawyer, but I suspect you uploading the maps with WoW symbols removed might be violation of copyright or somesuch.

I have the same suspicion (also not a lawyer). If you can use their maps legally, I wouldn't go to the trouble of removing names; they're all generic enough, so it's unlikely your players would recognize a name from Azeroth unless they're really avid players or it's somewhere well known.