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Hackett's Pass Blockhouse - Patrons' Edition
🕑 Added 2025-10-10 15:52:56 +0000 UTCThis map is a good place for an on-the-road encounter. It probably starts with the party traveling through the mountains and finding themselves in front of the gates here. Then, somebody tells them they need to pay a toll if they want to pass.
Now, in real life, people would see two options in this scenario: pay the toll or turn around and leave. But in D&D, nobody ever even considers the second option. The choices are to pay the toll or to kill every single one of these punks. And, unless the toll is very reasonable, I'd usually bet on option 2. Killing a few dozen people in order to avoid forking over a hundred bucks is just another day at the office in the Forgotten Realms. In any case, it's a fun encounter to throw at your players in the middle of a long journey. And once in a while they do surprise you.
Next, I'll be drawing a map of a multi-level waterfall city in the jungle that extends from the top of the falls, across multiple cliff outcrops and down to the bottom. This will be a city map (like this, for example), not a battlemap like Vayl's Firth. I'm way outside my comfort zone with this-- which I like-- but it makes me a bit nervous going into it. So let me grab a pencil and see if I can figure out how to draw this place.
Well, that's about it for now. If you've got any thoughts or questions, by all means let me know!
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Milby's Maps
Thanks! Keep in mind that, even if they pay, you can still rob them anyway.
Thomas Lockton
Awesome map! Definitely going to use it at some point. I would love to try to figure out the reasonable toll rate where the party argues amongst themselves whether to pay it. Your next map reminds me of a map I've been wanting to make. One where the entire city is built into one vertical cliff face, much like the map you drew awhile ago of a village. But everything carved into the stone.
