In my opinion the art book alone makes the CE worth paying more for. There’s alot of really nice concept art and descriptions of races, characters, creatures, architecture, gods, weapons, armors, game development itself and plenty of other stuff to read about.

The map is textured as an old scroll like thing. Only textured though since its completely flat. The whole Hyboria is printed on the map so the map doesn’t represent only the game area, which at this point is a really small part of the whole hyboria (Lots of room for expansions at least. ^^), but the whole world the game is based on. I’ve been reading the AoC Europe forums alot these past few days and seen people complain about the poor quality of the items in the CE box; the map in particular. All I can say is I guess I got lucky with it. The map I received is in perfect condition and I can read even the smallest print on it without much trouble.