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Battlemap: Pirate and Ghost Ship Download

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Battlemap: Pirate and Ghost Ship Download

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Pirates. A word that has caused sailors blood to run cold for centuries. A name that has haunted our history for ages, yet there are worlds where piracy is still a part of everyday life.

But what happens if the crew goes to a watery grave weighed down by a curse? The barnacle and seaweed covered ship will follow its crew to the other side.

Lord Zsezse Works has made this set because we wanted for you to get your hands on a ship’s battlemap that we believe is going to be a great accessory for every game you play on the high seas.

This is a three-masted and three leveled sailing ship. It’s perfect to transport the biggest cargoes, but the cannons on deck appear ready for anything.

Our maps are made for 1 inch based figures, where one inch = 5 feet in the real world. In your download, you can find the poster sized JPG images. You may use them for virtual tabletop programs or print in poster size.

This set includes the following:

Three maps broken into pages with and without water and grid
Two styles: Pirate Ship and Ghost Ship
Poster-sized full color images in JPG format for online and offline gamers

Image format:

Grid size: 1 inch
U.S. Letter, 200 dpi, PDF
JPG format pictures, 200 dpi
ZIP file (290 Mb)

One set, two ships. The real adventure is just beginning!

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Tanglefoot — Jan 7, 2013, 01:40 pm

One of the PDF's is repeated in the download. with another one missing.
Paizo need to fix it otherwise you can't print off the full set that you need.

This is a great (pair of) ship(s)

Jeremy Mac Donald — Oct 12, 2012, 11:00 am

So I'm looking for a ship and I've downloaded a number of them from Paizo, each time being a little disappointed that the ship that I'm looking for is not the one I downloaded. Then I got to this ship.

Its really fantastic, art is phenomenal and you get a lot (three decks, a captian's cabin and a crows nest...lots) for a very reasonable purchase price. Then on top of that they provide you this beauty in a wide array of different formats - sliced up into 8.5 by 11 for easy printing, poster sized versions, versions with and without water, with and without a grid. Chances are you'll be able to find a format you want to use with minimal work among all the possible options.

This is really the 'extra mile' that gets my star rating up to the top...I've downloaded some good PDF maps but usually I get the map in one format and I had better like it that way. Here I got to choose.

The ship is technically the same ship but one version has been done as a usable pirate ship and the other version is a decayed ghost ship. If I had any complaint at all its that the ghost ship version kind of went overkill on the green...my adventure calls for a ship that has been adrift for awhile and I'm still going to use the pirate ship version.

There also been some real attempts here to make the different levels of the ship 'behave' in different ways so that some levels are more chopped up while others are much more about wide open spaces. This increases the chances that one can use the ship in their adventure - gonna fight a big demon? Get that on a deck with more open space while if you want a scene were things are a lot more cramped well then there is a deck that does that.

Very impressed.

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Liz Courts Contributor

May 29, 2012, 12:08 pm

Now available!

Kajehase

May 29, 2012, 12:10 pm

Oooh!

Rebis Ouroboros

May 29, 2012, 10:19 pm

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I would love to be the guy who writes the first review of Battlemap: Pirate and Ghost Ship, but I can't, because I have a working relationship with Antal Kéninger and Zoltán Bárány of Lord Zsezse Works. Once I saw their first free map (The Hall of the Well - coming soon to Paizo.com) and discovered that they were from Hungary and that English was their second language, I volunteered to be their copy editor.
I love these guys. Their maps are amazing, they are incredibly humble, and ridiculously hard workers. I want them to succeed, and I think selling their maps on Paizo.com is the right move for them.
That being said, I can't possibly give an unbiased review for the review page, so I'll tell you about the battlemaps here, and if anyone has any questions for me, I can pull up the map on my computer and get back to you.

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Pirate and Ghost Ship is HUGE. Both the Pirate Ship map and the Ghost Ship map are 3 levels each, and each level is made up of 10 printed, DETAILED color pages. They add up to three 36" x 16" maps for Pirate Ship, and three 36" x 16" maps for Ghost Ship. They also include a map of both versions of the captain's cabin and even a map of a small crow's nest. Included are versions of the maps with water and without water. The guys suggest printing the cargo deck level with water, and then print the two upper decks without water, so you could lay the upper decks on top of the cargo hold as characters move from level to level.
Another unique feature of Lord Zsezse Works maps is that you can toggle on or toggle off the 1" grid. With this map, the only layers that you can turn on or off are the gridlines and the background. With the background on, the instructions look like weathered parchment, without the background, it's white for less ink-consuming printing. Other maps I've seen of theirs allow you to toggle traps, secret doors, lighting effects, and designs on tombstone covers.

The Ghost Ship appears weathered and barnacle encrusted, and nearly everything on the ship that isn't part of the actual ship itself shows up as a ghostly afterthought. Blades, rope, cannons, hammocks, sextants... all have a translucent green glow.

And the thing in the captain's cabin in the coffin...
It's creepy looking at it in the regular pirate ship map.
When you look at it in the ghost ship map, it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

That, right there, is the source of evil on that damned ship.

- Rebis Ouroboros

Snow Crash

May 7, 2013, 05:14 pm

Is it only printable as several smaller pages or can I take it to a print shop and have 1 big poster map printed out for each level as opposed to the 10 pages stuck together?