paizo.com - 0one's Blueprints: Kobolds Warrens PDF

Welcome to the kobolds warrens.

This blueprint offers five fantasy locations that may house our little dirty friends: the kobolds. You may also use these locations as lairs for other kinds of monsters, since kobolds “haunt” existing locations. Short adventure ideas are included for each location.

Lair of the Necromancer
An old lair of a long-dead necromancer has been discovered by an ambitious kobold who wants to be a necromancer. He also found an old artifact which may allow him to create undead....

Old Cemetery
An old, abandoned cemetery has been infested by kobolds. They desecrated the tombs and made their warren in the crypts. But the dead do not like this invasion...

Ruined Keep
The ruined keep has been home to various monsters in the past. While wandering monster dwell for a while in the outside ruins, kobolds dug deep into the mountain at the rear of the keep and established their warren there. The dirty little monsters use a secret passage to sneak outside during the night and steal goodies from adventurers...

Abandoned Tower
Kobold bandits have claimed this ruined tower as their hideout. The leaders of the kobolds are a sly shaman and a mighty warrior. These brothers raid the wagons of poor villagers in the vale below. The villagers are tired of the kobolds, but do not dare venture into the tower because they think it is haunted...

Dwarven Burial Chamber
The dwarven burial chamber remained untouched for centuries because two mighty stone golems guarded its entrance. Recently, an evil wizard gained control of the stone golems and led them away. The curious kobolds entered the burial chamber and desecrated the old resting place...

"Rule the Dungeon" feature implemented
Enhanced customization (now doors and furniture are separate, for example)
Alternative hexagonal grid now available
"North" mark now available and orientable
Master control panel allows you to control all the maps at once
Buttons for printing only blue maps or black and white maps
NOTE: You must use Adobe Acrobat 6+ in order to use all the features of this product

Each 0one's Blueprints product features a classic fantasy adventure location: a dungeon, a keep, a temple complex, a thieves' guild and so on. You can use these maps as reference to build your own adventures or simply have them at hand in case your players go in an unexpected direction during the campaign.

While offering you the best quality, these products are really inexpensive.

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An RPG Resource Review
Reviewer: Megan Robertson
Sun, Nov 18, 2007, 06:54 AM

The concept behind this mapset is a series of places suitable for kobold habitation... at least, until your characters find out where they live and run them out of town! Naturally these locations could serve as lairs of other groups or individuals if it suits your storyline better than using kobolds.

The locations depicted are a necromancer's lair, an old cemetery, a ruined keep, an abandoned tower, and a dwarven burial chamber - it seems kobolds are expert in recycling buildings to serve their own purposes once they have been abandoned by their original occupants. As an added bonus, short adventure ideas are provided for each location, thoughts on what may have led your characters to pay a visit in the first place.

Each location, presented with the technological wizardry we expect from 0one products, is imaginative and presents plenty of scope for more than just a straight 'thump the kobolds' adventure. The necromancer's lair has a river running through underground caverns (perhaps he was classically-educated and created his own underworld around a river Styx!); while the cemetery, as well as the usual shady garden of rest has extensive catacombs beneath.

You can customise the maps to some extent by choosing whether or not furniture, doors, room numbers or a grid are displayed; and you can also determine which direction is north (useful if you are slotting a location into an already established campaign world). All maps come as either blue or black & white, and if you are wanting to print the lot rather than an individual map you can select with variety you want rather than going through the book printing page by page. There are some notes pages you can print out and add comments to as well.

As always, just looking at the maps starts ideas spawning, so if you are in need for a run-down, pre-owned lair for your current opposition to inhabit you will likely find it here!