This should be an easy job escorting another caravan of food and travelers to the big city. What are the chances that monsters or highwaymen might attack? Unfortunately those
chances are pretty high. Paizo Publishing's GameMastery line of gaming accessories
continues its mantra of providing simple and elegant tools for the busy Game Master with
Map Pack: Caravans. Inside, you'll find beautiful 5"x8" map tiles that can be combined to form any caravan that might need protection from monsters along the way.
These cards present several different caravan elements, including:
Armored Wagons
Covered Wagons
Fortune Teller's Car
Horse Train
Merchant Wagons
Game Masters shouldn't waste their time scribbling out lines of wagons every time the
wandering monster table butts into the game. With GameMastery Map Pack: Caravans, you'll
always be ready when things go bad on the road!
GameMastery Map Pack: Caravan contains 18 full-color 5 x 8-inch map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Corey Macourek.
For use with the industry's most popular roleplaying or tabletop miniature campaigns, and useable by experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal.
Good GMs can never have too many maps at their disposal, and Paizo's GameMastery Map Packs provide high-quality gridded maps for use with both RPGs and miniatures games.
I'll be honest, I don't like the map packs. The flip mats work well enough, but the map packs wind up getting scattered around the gaming table and lost in the interim between games. I understand the product in concept, but I've never found them terribly useful in practice.
This map pack though got my hearty thumb's up! What I like about it is that it's modular and not necessarily defined by its ability to form a complete map by itself. I've always felt that the downfall of the map packs was how static they were, and with the possible exception of the "campsites" pack, an appropriate time to use them never seemed to come up. This pack though has found uses during exciting wagon chases when one does not want to redraw moving wagon and its horses as they gain ground, lose ground, and move past important landmarks or terrain.
If Paizo puts out more packs like this, I might just become more interested in the product.
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