The Battle for Oz

[Industrial Helix]

How about it? It's in the public domain and already has some maps made of it. A lot of good gameplay possibilities and the potential objectove of hold the Emerald City for the win.

[ender516]

A great looking map, but are you sure this particular one is out of copyright? It looks like someone put (c)1980 in the bottom right corner, and it doesn't quite look like any of the ones that I have seen that were originally done by L. Frank Baum or his early illustrators, which would be in the public domain by now. This one might have been created recently, but in the style of the early maps. Where did you find this? I would like to see it in greater detail. Also, there was another topic a while back about this sort of thing: Wizard of Oz. I hope the posters there notice this one.

[Industrial Helix]

Basic google image search for Oz map.. in the corner it also says that its based on another map drawn by H.M. Wogglebug... the following is what turns up for an image search of that.

[ender516]

This second map is L. Frank Baum's own work from the endpapers of one of the early books, and should be in the public domain. Trivia point about this one: it seems LFB based this map on a slide he had prepared for a publicity tour and thus he reversed it, putting the Winkie Country, home of the Wicked Witch on the right. Instead of redrawing it all, he fixed that by flipping the compass rose, but the publishers "fixed" it and put it back. I believe I have seen another which might also be in the public domain, which falls between these two in detail. I'll see if I can find it.

Prof. Wogglebug is a character from the books who, I believe, runs the only educational institution in Oz.

[captainwalrus]

I remember reading some other oz related book that was like not the origional and it had all kinds of things like some donkey kingdom and foxes and I don't know I forget, but I remember that they somehow got past the impassible desert. If anyone knows how you could add that in there as a way to get into oz

[ender516]

In one of the books, the Nome King tunneled under the Deadly Desert as can be seen on the following map, which appeared in Tik-Tok of Oz and should therefore be in the public domain.

I tried to put this image into my as-yet unused imagebucket account, but when I access my folder there it says "You have no images in this folder. Click the "Upload Images" button to upload images." THERE IS NO UPLOAD IMAGES BUTTON!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oz-and-surrounding-countrie.jpg

This map looks like it could be a lot of fun to develop and play, but I wonder if there are just too many unfamiliar elements on it. The map posted earlier which consists of just the four countries around the Emerald City and the surrounding deserts might be more familiar to most people, and could have more territories added by breaking the countries up around the detailed locations and adding the homes of some of the inhabitants of Oz. There is a ton of stuff on Wikipedia and other Oz fan sites which could help with this.

[RedBaron0]

Throw Kansas on there somehow and maybe put the yellowbrick road in there similarly to the interstates on the USA maps and you can get the bonuses up. You're going to have to tiptoe around copyrights though, the movies, books, characters, etc.

[Industrial Helix]

Well the yellow brick road only ran through Munchkin country... so I wonder if it would play a large role at all.

I think the larger map witht he desert would be quite cool. Desert as an all neutral area like in oasis or something. Lots of little bonuses in the outer lying countries as well.

[neanderpaul14]

If I click my heels together three times before attacking will I get better dice??

[ender516]

I don't know about that, but if you have the magic cap, you should be able to rule over Andy and his winged cousins. (You have to know the book, not just the movie to get that one.)

[neanderpaul14]

I don't know about that, but if you have the magic cap, you should be able to rule over Andy and his winged cousins. (You have to know the book, not just the movie to get that one.)

When I first saw the movie those flying monkeys scarred the hell out of me. I'm sure I cried I probably even ran and hid.