Flip Mat: River Crossing features a wide river winding through a dense forest. The map also features a small trail that crosses the river with a wooden bridge, making a perfect ambush site. The Flip side features a curving forest river.
Flip Mat: River Crossing measures 24" x 30" unfolded and 8" x 10" folded.
GameMastery Flip-Mats are designed to make your game portable and affordable. They're made with durable, laminated card stock and can handle dry erase, wet erase, and even permanent marker!
Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game Master's arsenal!
I run the PFS Intro series all the time and when I come to number three I can just whip out this map and the River Crossing encounter is taken care of. Such a time saver and my players love it.
The art work is too clean on this one. The river water should be murky, not like the Caribbean. The bridge is also in perfect repair and the trees remind me of train table trees. It would have been nice to have a river that was wider across too. There could have been some large rocks in the water to become encounter points.... PCs could jump to and battle on, rather than one choke point on a bridge. The back side of the map could have featured something more varied and exciting like the river's source- say a wide pool at the base of a rocky waterfall.
All the same,, I can't find it in me to give Paizo less than three stars for the maps they put out. You can always find a use for them even if they aren't your favorite and the prices are so reasonable that there is no reason for GM's to be under stocked when it comes to terrain!
Great, universal mat. Lush and beautiful, and very easy to see what everything is. I picked it up specifically for the early part of the first Jade Regent adventure path- which involves a lot of random encounters at bridges- but really, a bridge or river crossing encounter- be it ambush, problem solving challenge, or troll extortion shtick- comes up A LOT in fantasy role-playing, so you can definitely pick up this map in the firm knowledge it will get plenty of use. 5 stars!
