Some of the world’s greatest battles take place in monasteries dedicated to fighting mastery, and GameMastery Flip-Mat: Monastery sets the scene for legendary kung-fu battles! One side features a training courtyard complete with a massive gong while the other reveals a secret underground ninja training facility. This durable accessory can serve as a variety of locales in any tabletop fantasy campaign!
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I moved to a different state, so I have been gaming long distance with my old gaming group. We use Google Plus for video/voice and d20Pro for gaming maps. This pdf can be easily converted and looks beautiful in d20Pro. With the GameMastery Subscription, you get the pdf and actual flip-map as a package deal, so win-win. This particular map should have multiple useful applications.
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Well, I have to say, I really like this Map. The "top" has a very detailed, interesting, and overall gorgeous-looking monastery to invade, in rich color and detail which should add quite a bit of “oomph” to the session. It isn’t as “generic” as some of the other flip mats, so it probably won’t be hitting the table every game, but when it does come out, it will be a show-stopper. The “bottom” side, while being less visually impressive, is more generic and versatile; it could serve as a “test of mettle” type dungeon/monastery inner sanctum/Enter the Dragon style kung-fu training ground, or any number of other locations. The wet/dry erasable surface is nice added bonus as well.
While I am obviously pretty “wowed” by this map, and am therefore giving it the full five star treatment, I will caveat my endorsement by saying this is really not an “every session” sort of map, so if you are trying to stretch your gaming dollar or focus on generic maps that you will get a lot of use out of, this might not be what you’re looking for. But if you want to slap down a gorgeous mat to make for a memorable encounter crafted around the subject matter, this one will knock’em dead.
This is a bit off-topic as to the monastery map, but a comment meant more broadly about flip-mats generally: though I love my Paizo flip-mats, one thing I haven't been able to find anywhere is a good map representing an alternate plane, specifically a fae/faerie realm with many-colored trees and standing stones in a forest setting or suchlike. The Extra-Dimensional Spaces map pack was pretty good for representing higher planes, but I would like to see more maps in other planes. I know I'd get a lot of use out of them in my 4E campaign, and I imagine this sort of thing would be helpful in other systems as well. Just a thought; regardless, I love my maps subscription!
Can this flip-mat be used for The Ruby Phoenix Tournament module or any other published adventure? Or is there any tie-in with the Jade Regent AP?
Not as written no; the Ruby Phoenix Tournament has it's own competition grounds (not a monastery, closer to an arena), and Jade Regent doesn't have a dedicated monastery that I remember. I'm sure it would be easy enough to add in something like that, or tweak another location to make it a monastery (Ravenscraeg comes to mind, or possibly the House of Withered Blossoms, or somewhere in The Empty Throne).
