GM Resource: Travel Guides
 

I had this thought a few years ago but it's taken me until today to act on it.

I just got a DK Eyewitness Travel guide to Poland. It's packed with full color pictures of various [mostly] historic points of interest throughout Poland as well as detailed descriptions of most of those sites.

Anyway, I think that this is going to help me to add some more local colour to my game.

The Poland modules do a great job describing some key places but, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. There are plenty of sources of travel-related info on the web but a lot are in Polish and most of them focus on just a few select locales.

Obviously, there are a lot of paper-and-ink travel guides available. They make them for most countries with a tourism industry and for all 50 U.S. states. It really helps when the GM is "not from there".

You've probably thought of this before but I thought I would bring it up just in case.

I've been collecting used and out-of-date travel guides for a decade, since most of the adventures I tun are set in the real world. I've used them for adventures set in the 1940's and those set in the 2040's ;)

http://www.mapofpoland.net/Kalisz,photos,2.html#photos

and 120 pictures are worth more the 10,000 words...

that site has most of the Poland Cities in maps and photos...

Great Idea Raellus...

Rainbow6, FightingFlamingo & I have gone ahead and matched some locations up for you already. (Although these are our vacation pictures, not ones from travel guides!)

see the Illustrated Guide to the Free City of Krakow!!!

I've been trying to find 1990s Poland travel guides in used bookshops for years. No luck though. I've built up a great database of fantastic maps over time though - but no pictures.:(