paizo.com - 0one's Blueprints: The Great City -- Hope Park PDF

Hope Park offers a natural refuge within the bustling city; towering trees give cover to flowers and bushes as well as verdant grass. The sun rising over the hills gives a golden glow to the entire park.

Hope Park is a set of maps detailing a public park of the Great City and its surroundings. Although it is set in the Great City, this product can fit perfectly in your homebrew city.

Hope Park is also the starting location for the Road to Revolution campaign arc (see The Road to Revolution #1—The Skullcrackers adventure for more information)

This product contains an overview map and four maps which can be joined to form a large map of the park.

The Gardens
Wine and Spirits Shop
The Green Shrine
Carts & Wheelwright’s Shop
Park Guardian’s House

"Rule the Dungeon" feature
Enhanced customization (choose which features are visible)
Alternative hexagonal grid available
"North" mark 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

The Blueprints product line offers you old-fashioned blueprint-style maps for your adventures and campaigns. Each map comes in a blueprint version and a standard black-and-white version. The maps are all vector-based for maximum print resolution. Despite their old-fashioned appearance, each map offers some degree of customization, using PDF technology at its best. A button (which will not be printed) on each map allows you to turn the grid on and off, eliminate the room numbers, fill in walls, hide doors and furniture, and many other options, depending on the map.

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
Fri, Aug 28, 2009, 08:24 AM

It's strange, but normal city amenities like public parks are often omitted from fantasy maps. Here's an attempt to rectify the lack, with a well-detailed open space in the middle of the Great City (or indeed, within any largish township where it might suit you to locate it).

The product consists of an 'overview' map of the complete park and surrounding buildings and streets, and four larger maps that you can print out and stick together. As usual, all are available in either blue and white or black and white; and there is a 'Rule the Dungeon' button which allows some element of choice as to what is displayed - a hex or grid, text, buildings, and so on.

It appears to be a properly-maintained public gardens, complete with a park-keeper who has a residence on site and works full time at keeping the place looking good. The park is quite popular with local lovers, with a nice shady pond for them to wander hand-in-hand beside, and there is a wall where the infamous Broadsheets - the Great City's answer to the daily newspaper - are posted. There's a small kiosk, and if you require more substatial refreshment there is a wine shop nearby. If it is your soul that needs refreshing, there is a temple to a nature deity - quite appropriate for the sort of nature-lover who goes to parks!

If you are using the Road to Revolution campaign, this is where it all begins. But even if you are not, any city worthy of the name ought to have a park for locals and visitors alike to enjoy.