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Royal Museum Battle Map - Launch
🕑 Added 2019-08-16 23:54:57 +0000 UTCHello Adventurers! The first of our new map ideas is finally here, it took a little longer than expected but hopefully it was worth it. I was inspired by a few places I've visit over the years, the British Museum in London and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford being two of the biggest inspirations. I wanted to keep the play area fairly open to allow for more tactical positioning in combat while also trying to create an interior that felt suitably full of artefacts.
Next map
I think our next map will be the Long House Guild Hall themed map. Should be fun, I'll be starting work on that Monday with an eye on launching it around the weekend.
Working on:
- The Long House - Viking style guildhall, maybe a Fighters or Adventurers Guild
Still to do:
- The Green Bastion - An overgrown/ruined outpost at the edge of the world
- The Cutpurse - A gambling den, casino style tavern map!
Done:
- The Museum - City museum with all manner of weird things on displays
Finally welcome to my new Patrons, you know who you are :) And as always thanks to every one of you for your support, it really does mean a lot and keeps me motivated to create new maps for you wonderful people. Have a great weekend and happy adventuring! And now onto the map notes!
Introduction
The streets are busy, all manner of people hurry along the grubby cobbles on one errand or another, from high born ladies to low born street urchins. A scruffy looking youth dressed in an ill fitting suit rushes up to your wizard companion. He waves a flyer in her face and starts to reel off an obviously rehearsed patter. She shoos him away with some irritation but not before he thrusts a flyer into her hands, she pauses momentarily to read it before handing the crumpled piece of paper to you. The flyer reads as follows:
“New exhibit unveiled today! See the statue that inspired a thousand sacrifices. The tools of BLOODY SLAUGHTER! The manuscripts of summoning and the blood stone that made it all happen! Be the first to hear the infamous tale of the Arcarnon cult, and their Arch Lord of the Nether Planes. Come for the drama! Stay for the history!
Visit the Royal Museum today, entrance fee 50% OFF with this flyer!!!”
You look up at the old stone building before you, columns flank the entrance, a brightly polished bronze sign proclaims it to be ‘The Royal Museum’. Leaded windows, caked with dust and yellowed from lamp smoke reveal nothing of the interior except a dim red light that flickers ominously. You cross your fingers hoping it's part of the exhibit, a shrill scream and echoing demonic chanting emanating from inside dashes those hopes.
Notes and tips
- 30x30 Grid map
- The museum is split into three areas: The centre is anthropological, left is arcane and right is natural history.
- Other than the main entrance you can enter the building by the sky lights, windows or through the two staircases at the rear.
- The Museum employees are reporting ghosts in the museum at night, the party is hired to deal with them.
- The Museum is worried it is going to get burgled and employs the party as night watchmen.
- At night the museum curator is trying to summon something terrible.
- The museums artifacts are coming to life:
- Have the beetle flap its wings and create powerful winds.
- The dragon skull could unleash a breath weapon.
- Any one of the magical artifacts on display could activate when the party gets too close with any number of weird effects.
- Swarms of insects could attack from the insect collection.
- The manuscripts could glow and when they are examined could force the viewer to read them aloud.
Variants
Museum night/candle lit
Library
Library night/candle lit
Comments
Afternoon Maps
Thanks for the message Joshua, its always nice to get feedback on my maps. I'm glad you are finding them useful :D I think I remember Arcanum but never played it. Looking at the screenshots it does certainly look quite like my city maps :)
JoshuaMuster
Your art style (especially in the city maps like this) reminds my favorite PC game of all time, Arcanum. I've been creating a homebrew world to take my players through, and this/these will capture the feel perfectly. :D Thanks!!
Afternoon Maps
Hi Austin, Patrons get a much higher resolution map for $1 per new map release. $2 Tier gets you all the variant maps and the Printable PDFs. All the old maps are free to Patrons.
Hello! Is there a higher quality version (maybe locked cept for patrons?) This version doesn't go well on Roll20, too pixelated.
Kai G.
This is really cool! I love the library variant as well. These two maps will definitely make an appearance in my campaign!
Afternoon Maps
Oh cool, good to know its going to be used! Thanks Mirriky
Afternoon Maps
Thanks John :D
monosyllabicmonk
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn this one is great!
Mirriky
This is awesome, and just as I needed a museum map too!
Afternoon Maps
Thanks Oceanic, happy you appreciate the library variant :)
Afternoon Maps
Ah cheers Chase :D I tried to run a encounter a while ago in a museum and I could find only one other map at the time.
chase_dagger
I love how you keep making these uncommon battle maps, combined with your personal style they are uniquely awesome.
oceanicsurvivor
Wow, you managed to knock out two really unique locations with one map. Your variants are always always so cool. Thank you so much!
Afternoon Maps
Thanks Brandon :D Hopefully they will come in handy for city encounter, I think museum maps are quite uncommon.
Davidcruger
This is awesome and so different, great work
