Adventurers need a place to gather between their far-off journeys and dangerous quests, and the Pathfinder Lodge provides the perfect guildhall for their rare moments of rest between adventures. Of course, an adventurer never gets to rest for long, and Flip-Mat: Pathfinder Lodge allows you to hit your players where it hurts them most—in the safety of their own hideout!
This portable, affordable map measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. Its coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, GameMastery Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!
On tabletops across the world, the Flip-Mat Revolution is changing the way players run their fantasy roleplaying games! Why take the time to sketch out ugly scenery on a smudgy plastic mat when dynamic encounters and easy clean-up is just a Flip away?
The Pathfinder Lodge flip-mat actually game out back before Paizo had released the Pathfinder RPG, when its game aids were marketed under the GameMastery rubric. The flip-mat is long out of print and cost a bit to order from the secondary market, but I think it's definitely worth it. I could draw some rooms and doors, but there's no way I'm going to be able to match every torch sconce, chair, or rug. Each side presents one level of a gorgeous mansion. The first floor side includes exterior details like the path, front steps, and some landscaping along with interior rooms like a library, a large conference table, a weapons-training room, storage rooms, and more. The other side presents the second story that includes several bedrooms; it's confusing at first glance because the main lounge, back garden, front steps, and other features that could extend "vertically" are represented as well. In other words, it's not immediately apparent what features are at ground level and which are on the second level without careful attention to where the stairs open up, where doors are, etc. That issue aside, the amount of detail and attractive artistry is really impressive, and I think exceeds what Paizo puts out these days. I've used Pathfinder Lodge in a couple of sessions, and it's been impressive each time. Hopefully this will eventually get reprinted in the Flip-Mat Classics line.
I really love the lodge and I plan to use it in my work. It's about time that the flip-mats were put into a pdf format. Now, how about those smaller tile maps, like the planar map?
I don't suppose this will match the floor plan for ** spoiler omitted **
It will not.
Spoiler:
The location in Council of Thieves is a pretty complex, large dungeon, and one that is on a different, parallel development schedule from the Flip Mat—what we're doing in the adventure would be unlikely to fit on the flip map, alas. Also, the Flip Mat Pathfinder Lodge is intended to be a functional one that's up and running—the lodge in Council of Thieves has been abandoned for 100 years and is in ruins.
The flip mat lodge is intended to be a "generic" Pathfinder lodge that could, perhaps, serve as a headquarters or base of operations for PCs in a Pathfinder-themed campaign. The lodge in Council of Thieves is more of a haunted house.
Thanks! The product team came up with a nice list of personal detail requests to add to most of the rooms. I'll wait for the comments when it gets released to see how many games find them...there are some REALLY good hidden things in this map.
Hey Corey, is the city map lying on the table in one of the tower chambers based on a certain city, or is it just something you made up?
I'll have to peek into that. I HAVE taken a couple large city maps from the Paizo website and included them here and there in my maps, but cannot recall for this particular one. I also have a number of old world city map photos that make there way into all of my work in some form, but I like to include some things from Paizo in the mix.
Is this going to be added to the "Classic" line? I have a personal copy but numerous people in my area are trying to find a copy and the second market has this going north of $100. Seen one being sold for as much as $320.