The Drunken Lizard Pub

When you have a cartography skill of 0 the map completely disappears when the spell wears off.

When you have a cartography skill of 1, the map remains in full color and is not overwritten. It redraws the borders but it is not noticeable.

When you have a cartography skill of greater than 1 the map ...

So the moral of the story is:

Don't level your cartography skill beyond "1" if you intend to augment it with gear or the mapmaking spell.

The mystery is solved!

Thank you for spending some time looking into this. Much more useful than what I was doing (no it isn't/yes it is/no it isn't/yes it is).

<shrug>

Whether you are skeptical or not doesn't change the fact that the map does not overwrite when I play the game.

I have a cartography skill of 1. When I roam the map it reveals only a grey outline. When I cast reveal map, I get a full color map. When the spell is not in use, while walking ...

Jude wrote:The map overwrites under OS X 10.3.9. too.

Jude

I am running 10.5.1 on an intel Mac and the map does not overwrite.

I'm afraid that mine was – running 10.4. I went wandering around with a pair of sandals and then took them off. Overwritten and erased. Bummer. Actually I finished the game with the Scout sandals on.
I did notice though that when I got an amulet that added two more points to my "talent" (up ...

This is being asked in another thread, as well. Thought I would post my experience here, too. On the Mac version, maps are not overwritten when my cartography skill reverts to 1 (when the spell wears off).

The map is not overwritten in the mac version. Seems odd that something that is this difficult to fix would work fine on another platform...

Thank you for the swift reply, as well as the good news!

I am already looking forward to Book II. I haven't had this much fun playing a game since Bard's Tale a quarter of a century ago!

I would love to run this thing at my laptop's native screen resolution (1440 x 900) but am forced to choose between sharp, crisp graphics in a tiny little window or large fuzzy graphics in full screen.

At least consider making the window resizeable when running in windowed mode.

Really enjoying ...