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RMS Mauretania - Part 1 - Orlop Deck
🕑 Added 2021-09-30 11:33:23 +0000 UTC“When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
She is here! There are many myths surrounding ships and the reasoning of why people refer to them as 'she'. One myth says that's because "men love them". Another one says that “like a woman, a ship is unpredictable.
The most possible scenario explaining this phenomenon is a combination of the above; The ‘ship as she’ is a linguistic habit as a leftover from tradition, a reflection of a world which saw women as a mystery of the world, like Mother Earth and Mother Nature, someone whose purpose and utility is to carry life on the one hand, but ‘needs a man to handle her’ on the other.
If we want to take a look strictly linguistically, this lingual peculiarity can be possibly traced to the fact that the gender of the Latin word for “ship” — Navis — is feminine.
You can find more info on why a ship is called a 'she' - here.
But let's not waste our time on the thoughts of the past (some of them very wrong!) and let's focus to the point.
RMS Mauretania - the Queen of the Ocean is here!
In this release you will find the Orlop Deck. For those of you (including me before starting to work on this map) that don't know what that is, it is the lowest deck of a ship where the engines, furnaces & boilers are.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the floor-plans of the ship and I had to research a lot of how steamboats work. I hope that I managed to bring to you a glimpse of how life was in a huge ship as RMS Mauretania.
Below you can see the floor-plan I used as inspiration for designing this map.
When the whole ship is ready I will publish it as whole including all the possible fixes I will do until then. For Foundry users I will create a single module with all the decks of the ship when they are ready.
This is a long-term project and because of that I may post updates on the existing maps during the development of the ship.
Those of you that may have more experience than me on ships - please let me know of any inconsistency and I will try to fix it on the next revision.
- grid & gridless maps
- low (70 PPI) & high (140 PPI) resolutions
- dd2vtt files for FoundryVTT & Roll20
- WebP files
- A monthly Foundry Module with all the maps of the month personally curated by me with walls, windows, doors, lights and more.
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - Lower Level - 1 of 3
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - Lower Level - 2 of 3
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - Lower Level - 3 of 3
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - Upper Level - 1 of 3
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - Upper Level - 2 of 3
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - Upper Level - 3 of 3
Rewards
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Chthonian (Tier 1)
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - With Grid
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - Without Grid
Yog-Sothoth (Tier 2)
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - dd2vtt files
RMS Mauretania - Orlop Deck - WebP files
Great Cthulhu (Tier 3)
Foundry Module #6 - September 2021
If you already downloaded the module just update it normally on FoundryVTT and the new maps will appear in your compendium.
Nyarlathotep (Tier 4) gets all the assets I designed for this map in my custom DungeonDraft Asset Pack released at the end of each month.
Azathoth (Tier 5) gets my eternal gratitude for the extra support. Any request you have (within reason) will be added on top of my backlog and be designed the soonest possible.
Comments
Panagiotis I
The problem is solved! Now you can find Orlop Deck of RMS Mauretania after you update Foundry Module #06. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for notifying me about this!
Panagiotis I
I verified that there is an issue with the Mauretania maps on module #06. The Mauretania maps on module #07 & #08 should be working fine. I will try to fix the issue today. Thanks for informing me about this issue.
Panagiotis I
Hey, on which modules are you looking on for Mauretania? Part one of Mauretania should be available in module #06.
matthew campbell
I tried updating this via the forge and the mauretania maps aren't there.
Panagiotis I
Thanks a lot! Me too! I will try my best to make this map as accurate to the floorplans as possible.
Mark S
Looks great, already thinking of adventures for this ship & looking forward to the rest of the levels!!! :)
