More than just merchants come to markets to make a few coins. Between sly pickpockets, shifty con artists, and exotic strangers, players never know who might turn up amid the crowded stalls and colorful tents of the local marketplace. But no Game Master wants to spend time drawing flower stands and vegetable carts. Fortunately, with Paizo Publishing’s latest GameMastery Map Pack, you don’t have to! This line of gaming accessories provides simple and elegant tools for the busy Game Master. Inside, you’ll find 18 captivating 5" × 8" map tiles that can be combined into a variety of markets, shop-lined streets, and bustling squares, including:
Carpet Merchant
Cooper
Fountain
Herbalist's Shop
Livestock Pen
Mystic's Tent
Produce Vendor
Store Fronts
Combine Map Pack: Marketplace with Map Pack: Rooftops to expand the urban sprawl further by adding a maze of alleys!
Game Masters shouldn’t waste their time sketching maps every time their players go shopping. With GameMastery Map Pack: Marketplace, you’ll always be ready whenever adventurers have gear to buy and gold to spend!
Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles!
ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-439-9
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Well depicted buildings & other town elements, with a fair ability to be combined in different positions. Much more useful than oh-so-many other sets in this series. A few too many tents for my taste, and one more open street tile might have been useful.
Buy this set in conjunction with the Slums and Rooftops map packs and you will be prepared to lay out any village, town or city that your PC's come across. When I first started planning my map pack purchases, I was disappointed to find that it is difficult to lay out a scenario properly using only one map pack.
Once I added a few different packs to my collection, the true power of the map packs were revealed as they combine in a near infinite variety of layouts. Now with my city triple threat of map packs in tow, I can lay out any town, large or small, from Absolam to Kaer Maga without any trouble!
If your PC's are headed into town, get your triple threat of map packs going today and you'll be prepared for anything they throw at you.
Boards ate my longer review - so in short: Great urban maps for a marketplace or for wider urban roads. Very useful in every 'vanilla' urban encounter.
If combined with the rooftops map packs, you have almost everything you need for 'urban outdoor encounters'.
If you need to make a customizable city scene, THIS is for you! These can be mixed and matched to make hundreds of different locations. Mix this with the Rooftops Map Pack (Another 5 STAR set) and most of your outdoor urban needs are covered.
Do wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from ALL the MAP PACK TILES? Or just the most recently published ones?
Just the most recent ones.
Specifically, everything since Map Pack: Shops. If you look at the product code on the back of the package, and it's PZO4028 or higher, it's erasable. (Erasability is also mentioned in the product text where appropriate.)
These are going to be great! I can't count the times I've had things happening in a city and have had to suddently draw out an alley or market or what have you.
I'll just keep these (and rooftops) in my ammo case and be ALL set :)