[Groundworm]

Renaming is on. Sorry if I forgot to mention that in my original post.

Bat/man- Shahrivar is a fairly open, non-wrap map with a small (12? province) lake in the middle west that is the only water on the map. It's colorful, as decourcy mentioned, and has decent resources, income, and terrain variety. The original map had fixed magic sites (some of which were quite powerful) that were unequally distributed and so gave certain starting spots disproportionate advantages. This version that we're using has them removed.

decourcy- excluding water provinces, Shahrivar has 168, which means that we'll each have 14 on average. This is pretty standard, in my experience, for a small-medium sized game (which is what I'm used to). If people would rather have something a little bigger, I'm not opposed to changing the map to something else. Though if you're worried about LA T'ien Ch'i expansion, check out your Ancestor Vessels!

Do let me know if a significant number of us would like a map change, we can certainly do that. Riverlands is also a possibility- 226 land + 19 water provinces would give us an average of 18-19 provinces each, exclusive of water provs. Would make the game somewhat bigger.