Two more map reviews today. My appetite was whetted by Robenhagen's first Planeswalker campaign so I went back for more - I review Planeswalker II this week. Hoping it would address what I saw as the problems of the first campaign, I was somewhat disappointed, but it was still a very impressive set of maps. Second up I take on Sarvi's latest epic, Garvant. The L-size of this map belies it's true scope, two fully fleshed out halves of the map makes this feel like either a very large map or two maps in one, which is good, because the whole map is a blast to play.I've also added a new section to the Psychobabble's Picks page which contains the top 5 map lists of a number of map-makers. A number of map-makers I contacted declined my offer to post their personal top 5, but many thanks to those who did. It's certainly given me an idea of some maps I've got to review in the near future. I hope you don't think I'm being unfair only giving these people 5 maps to pick, my suspicion that many people haven't played enough maps to have 10 much-loved favourites was confirmed by the number who replied to me saying they didn't even have 5!
Finally, I added an [ed.] note next to the 'in short' comments about My Brother's Keeper pointing out that they were not written by me. At least one reader got the impression I was being a little glowing about my own map on a page I had created, so it's probably important to note that I didn't write those comments.
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