These are all great! Thanks everyone
@Yossarian - are you using iBooks Author? There is so much potential for interactive ebooks of this nature for GMs... I've been toying withthe idea for ages. Just waiting for a decent interactive map widget to appear....
No, just Apple Pages. But that sounds interesting! What sort of functionality did you have in mind for an 'interactive map widget'?
It depends. Are you using roll20 just for yourself? Or are you going to let other players view the map at the same time? With the growth in use of tablet computers and widespread laptop availability, wireless internet access can often let all the players log onto the same site, even though most of you are in the same room.
Technically, if you initially have the browser page open in an internet zone, you can keep the browser window open outside the Internet. You won't be able to edit pages and have the edits keep. But in theory you might still be able to use it to show what parts of the maps can be seen, and to move icons around. (The die-rolling feature probably wouldn't work.)
The benefits truly come when players can see where things and encounters are as well.
I've not looked at the service but, could you not fire up another browser and then move that browser screen to a projector for the player view?
I love this thread! You guys are great, especially for guys like me who are too lazy and/or too impatient to create their own stuff...
Yossarian, I love your illustrated NPC list. I think it would be even better if they were listed according to their placement in sandpoint, rather than alphabetically. If you can see at a glance whom you are going to meet at the cathedral (for instance), it might make ones job as a DM easier.
Thanks all - I probably won't use roll20 or d20pro but Fantasy Grounds 2 instead. And I want the maps and stuff to be visible to me only. The players will have their sheets and the tabletop mat to look at as wel las their books. I just want to streamline my references and save a bunch of pageflipping and "hsang on" moments!
I use hero labs and I love it. It totally speeds up game play. Some one has already imported all of the monsters into hero labs so it's fairly easy to get started with
Yossarian, I love your illustrated NPC list. I think it would be even better if they were listed according to their placement in sandpoint, rather than alphabetically. If you can see at a glance whom you are going to meet at the cathedral (for instance), it might make ones job as a DM easier.
Thanks! I thought about that but plenty of the NPCs show up in multiple places. What i've done is have some small portraits for the key places where my players like to go. Should add a few more really, although now i'm busy mostly with a second document that details the villages between sandpoint and magnimar (not based on paizo NPCs).
Thanks! I thought about that but plenty of the NPCs show up in multiple places. What i've done is have some small portraits for the key places where my players like to go. Should add a few more really, although now i'm busy mostly with a second document that details the villages between sandpoint and magnimar (not based on paizo NPCs).
Yossarian, I love your illustrated NPC list. I think it would be even better if they were listed according to their placement in sandpoint, rather than alphabetically. If you can see at a glance whom you are going to meet at the cathedral (for instance), it might make ones job as a DM easier.
Yes, the NPCs can show up all over the place. I must admit I have some trouble remembering the names, so I would look them up in their original place entry. Maybe I just restructure it for my usage, if I get around to that. Keep up the great work! I admire folks that have the perseverance to get stuff like this done, even more so with the details you come up with.
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I'm not sure if this is what you are working on, but when I ran this adventure I made up an encounter chart for the town, basically since the town has 50 or so locations I just rolled a 1d50 and had the person from that location cross paths with the players, it was alot of fun.
I would of course add an extra few entry like.
1-50 As per Town Locations
51. 1d4 Adventurers
52. 1d8+1 Rangers of Fort Rannick
53. 1d4+1 Varissians
54. 1d3-1 Shoanti Natives
55. 1d4 Farmers
56. 1d3+1 Children pretending to be Heroes of Sandpoint chasing Goblins
57. A Thief (rogue 1) Sleight of Hand +5
58. A Drunk from the Fatman's feedbag
59. Sailors (50/50 or Pirates!) from the Docks
60. 1d4 Workers from the Lumber Mill
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I love this thread! You guys are great, especially for guys like me who are too lazy and/or too impatient to create their own stuff...
Yossarian, I love your illustrated NPC list. I think it would be even better if they were listed according to their placement in sandpoint, rather than alphabetically. If you can see at a glance whom you are going to meet at the cathedral (for instance), it might make ones job as a DM easier.
Check out this thread: http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2puoh?Bringing-Sandpoint-to-life
I posted encounter lists for each street using what businesses are on each street, and who may typically be traveling where. It may not be exactly what you have in mind, but here is an example:
Raven Street
Notable Places: Bottled Solutions (17) Cracktooth’s Tavern (18) Sandpoint Theatre (23)
Encounters:
Nisk Tander traveling to Bottled Solutions (17)
Cart of bottles (glass, ceramic, etc.) traveling to Bottled Solutions (17)
Gorvi or any of dozen vagrants and curs with red wheelbarrow collecting trash to take to (6)
Mayor Kendra Deverin walking the town
Wagon carrying product from Two Knight Brewery (39) to Inn/Tavern
Actors and artists traveling to/from Cracktooth’s Tavern (18)
Jesk “Cracktooth” Berinni traveling to/from Cracktooth’s Tavern (18)
Cyrdak Drokkus regaling entourage with stories
Cyrdak Drokkus and Jasper Korvaski walking to/from Cracktooth’s Tavern (18)
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Oops. Already posted that link here a few weeks ago. Apols for the repeat.
It's a really nice encounter list, I've been using it in my campaign. I needed to copy it out of the forum and put it on a printable document, so I thought I might share that here for anyone who wants to save some time (not) doing that:
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I am running Skinsaw Murders and I was looking for maps of the Seven's Sawmill and found nothing. So I decided to make my own maps. When I was almost finishing I discovered the Dom C's topic and had to steal some of his ideas (specially the log splitters). Anyway, here's my contribution:
Seven's Sawmill - Undermill
Seven's Sawmill - Ground Floor
Seven's Sawmill - First Story
Seven's Sawmill - Second Story
Seven's Sawmill - Workshop
Seven's Sawmill - Rookery
And here are some edited maps of Magnimar. I fixed the scale, turned the north of the map to the top and changed some Villas in Naos and Alabaster District to match with what is shown in the map of the supplement Magnimar City of Monuments:
I am running Skinsaw Murders and I was looking for maps of the Seven's Sawmill and found nothing.
There are Sawmill maps in the interactive map file that came with the AE download.
And in the actual chapter, on page 114, for that matter.
I am running Skinsaw Murders and I was looking for maps of the Seven's Sawmill and found nothing.There are Sawmill maps in the interactive map file that came with the AE download.
And in the actual chapter, on page 114, for that matter.
I meant a map made by fans with high resolution. And I don't have the Interactive map from AE. The art is the same from page 114?
I meant a map made by fans with high resolution. And I don't have the Interactive map from AE. The art is the same from page 114?I am running Skinsaw Murders and I was looking for maps of the Seven's Sawmill and found nothing.There are Sawmill maps in the interactive map file that came with the AE download.
And in the actual chapter, on page 114, for that matter.
Yep. I blew it up for printing and it looks just fine, even in B&W.
But I have low standards (which is to say, I'm cheap). So I can totally understand the urge to make better maps. I just thought you meant you couldn't find the ones that did exist. :)
Very nice - any chance you can do them without the grid?
SoylentG did a very handy compiled quick-reference list of Sandpoint NPCs here: DM resources thread
I've started using it for my campaign, and have added to it, most noticeably by finding suitable portraits for the NPCs not already illustrated by Paizo Illustrated Sandpoint NPC list
This is awesome, but why are so many of Sandpoint's residents listed as "Varisian"? Shouldn't they be Chelaxian? Only members of the native Varisian people (such as the Mvashtis and Risa) should be listed as such.
Also, Ameiko is listed as Tian/Varisian. My understanding was both her mother and father were Tian (Minkai).
Both Dwarves (the locksmith and the carpenter) appear to have the same picture.
Finally, I'm pretty sure Aldern Foxglove is supposed to be Chaotic Neutral before his conversion to a ghast, not Chaotic Evil. At least that's how he's listed in the Anniversary Edition.
Not trying to take away from something that's really well put together and useful, (and I'll certainly be using for my game) but those things jumped out at me.
I think I can answer this, at least based on the material that I provided: The nationalities/origins of the NPCs and their stats were pulled from the excellent HeroLab Community Bestiary files for HeroLab. I wish I could tell you who was diligent enough to stat up each and every NPC from the adventure path in HeroLab, but that unknown saint is responsible for the info in my reference docs.
Yossarian, I wanted to express my thanks and admiration for the work you've put up in this thread. I've made extensive use of the maps and other pdfs you've provided in my own game. I'm glad you found my simple references worthy of being the raw grist for your mill of excellence ;-)
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This thread is too long!
I know there's a ton of good stuff in here, but the thread's so long, and some of the 5 year old links are broken, so finding stuff could be tough. My group's first playing session will be Monday, and I haven't even finished reading Burnt Offerings yet (I really want to read the whole campaign before we get to far in). Is there any stuff in this thread I should be aware of for my first couple of sessions?
This thread is too long!
I know there's a ton of good stuff in here, but the thread's so long, and some of the 5 year old links are broken, so finding stuff could be tough. My group's first playing session will be Monday, and I haven't even finished reading Burnt Offerings yet (I really want to read the whole campaign before we get to far in). Is there any stuff in this thread I should be aware of for my first couple of sessions?
Nynphaiel made a compilation that's up to date:
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2i3wa&page=14?Community-Created-Stuff#695
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Thanks for that. I noticed some of the links were broken, including map links.
Does anyone have a map for the Die Dog Die encounter at the north gate? I'm trying to draw my maps today for use when we start tomorrow, and I'm hoping to get through the whole goblin raid in the first session. We may still be finishing character building/back stories for the first hour or two, and I don't know how much they'll get into RPing the Swallowtail Festival before the goblins arrive, so we may not even get that far in the first session, but we'll see.
That one may be dead because it's a published map, and you can buy the PDF of the flip mat. Just speculating. I purchased the flip mat, and it worked well.
I've got self-made maptools files for Ven's basement, the Barrett house, and a Boar Hunt location. Files can be found here.
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I know the town square is available as a published map to buy, but I decided not to buy it, more because I don't trust Paizo to get it here in time than because of the price. Given the problems they've been having fulfilling subscriptions the last few weeks, I don't trust them to ship me anything else until I know that mess is cleared up. But that map is shown in the book, so I can just draw it on a blank grid map based on what I see there.
But the one I'm talking about is for the third fight against the goblins, that takes place at the north gate. Without a map in the book to work with, I pretty much have to just guess what it's supposed to look like, which is why I'm looking for help.
While we're on the subject, are there other published maps that go with later parts of this adventure path? I'm still reading Burnt Offerings, so it'll take at least a week before I read far enough to find out what other maps I need. Given the lead time in mail ordering them, any info I could find out in advance would be helpful, so I can order stuff now to use in 3+ weeks.
Oh, look at that! The flip mat has the Northern battle on the opposite side, so I never realized that there was no map in the AP!
If you look at the full map of Sandpoint, you get the basic layout (the flip mat was actually just a zoomed in version of this spot with some detail added in). The wall goes from SE to NW diagonally, and there is one house nearby. The flip mat had a small bush at the corner (for the goblins to hide in), and some barrels and boxes to the side for Aldern to hide behind. If you do an image search for flip-map town square, you will see some sample images. Also, the flip mat is available as a PDF if you were worried about arrival time.
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Does anyone have a map for the Die Dog Die encounter at the north gate?
I spent quite some time looking for a suitable map to use for this - as we play online, I can't just sketch it out, but need a properly-detailed map. Unfortunately, I didn't find one, so I decided to just have the encounter occur on the Swallowtail Festival map, in the south-western corner. This seemed to work quite well, as the PCs weren't over in that part of the map after the previous encounters.
Does anyone have a map for the Die Dog Die encounter at the north gate?I spent quite some time looking for a suitable map to use for this - as we play online, I can't just sketch it out, but need a properly-detailed map. Unfortunately, I didn't find one, so I decided to just have the encounter occur on the Swallowtail Festival map, in the south-western corner. This seemed to work quite well, as the PCs weren't over in that part of the map after the previous encounters.
Do you have the flip-mat for town square (used for the first encounter)? The other side has a gate with a road intersection that I believe should work just fine for the encounter.
Thanks for that. I noticed some of the links were broken, including map links.
Does anyone have a map for the Die Dog Die encounter at the north gate? I'm trying to draw my maps today for use when we start tomorrow, and I'm hoping to get through the whole goblin raid in the first session. We may still be finishing character building/back stories for the first hour or two, and I don't know how much they'll get into RPing the Swallowtail Festival before the goblins arrive, so we may not even get that far in the first session, but we'll see.
I do not remember where I got it neither who is the author (probably was someone who posted in this topic). But here it goes:
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That's a great map, GustavoMalek, but isn't "Die Dog Die" by the north gate? That appears to be a bit further south by the cathedral.
I guess you can alter the general location of the encounter, it doesn't have to be right by the gate.
Actually, that map that Gustavo provided a link to is really good - I wish I'd had that when I ran the Die, Dog, Die encounter. It's supposed to take place north of the cathedral square, just east of the White Deer - which is the large building right at the top of Gustavo's map. Ideally, for me, the map would show a little bit more of that building and a bit less of the cathedral square, but it's still fine to use as is. I'd place the encounter in that open area just to the south-east of the inn, where Cliff Street comes across to join Church Street.
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In an attempt to contribute to this thread, rather than just take things from it, here's a version I made of Aldern Foxglove for use during Burnt Offerings, reworking him as a straight aristocrat.
Aldern Foxglove CR 2
XP 600
Male human aristocrat 4
CN Medium humanoid
Init +2; Senses Perception +1
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DEFENSE
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AC 16, touch 14, flat-footed 13 (+2 armor, +1 deflection, +2 Dex, +1 dodge)
hp 17 (4d8-1)
Fort +0, Ref +5, Will +5
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OFFENSE
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee sword cane +4 (1d6+1) or boar spear +4 (1d8+1)
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STATISTICS
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Str 13, Dex 14, Con 8, Int 12, Wis 12, Cha 16
Base Atk +3; CMB +4; CMD 18
Feats Dodge, Lightning Reflexes, Persuasive
Skills Bluff +10, Diplomacy +12, Intimidate +12, Knowledge (local) +6, Knowledge (nobility) +8, Ride +9, Sense Motive +7
Languages Common, Elven, Varisian
Gear ring of protection +1, leather armor, sword cane, boar spear, light horse, extravagant noble's outfit worth 200 gp, 65 gp
NOTES
I tried to extrapolate back from the later version of him as much as possible. That's why, for example, I've used three of his favoured class bonuses as extra hp (assuming that aristocrat is his favoured class). I've deliberately left out all the rogue elements of the character - this is simply a smooth-talking aristocrat who does his best to keep out of harm's way. His low Constitution score also contributes to his desire to avoid fights unless he has the upper hand (preferably through the assistance of the PCs). I've made his gear appropriate for an NPC of his level - though you could argue that he would have more. Thanks to RuyanVe who (in another thread) inspired me to do this, and some of whose ideas I stole (such as giving Aldern a sword cane).
Actually, that map that Gustavo provided a link to is really good - I wish I'd had that when I ran the Die, Dog, Die encounter. It's supposed to take place north of the cathedral square, just east of the White Deer - which is the large building right at the top of Gustavo's map. Ideally, for me, the map would show a little bit more of that building and a bit less of the cathedral square, but it's still fine to use as is. I'd place the encounter in that open area just to the south-east of the inn, where Cliff Street comes across to join Church Street.
Actually, Kalshane is right, that map is the location of the initial combat. If you look at the Town Square flip mat, the grey building with the steps is the western entrance to the cathedral, which is the same on Gustavo’s map.
But either way, you are correct in that it is a great map and is highly appreciated. It works well for those who don’t have/don’t want to buy the flip mat or want to use actual props for the tents, food carts, podium, etc.
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Hard work and awesomeness
Great work Nynphaiel, glad to see the work is being continued. I don't run RotL anymore and just came back to see if this list needed some more work. Glad you took the reigns and greatly improved upon it.
It was a pain in the ass eh lol
Actually, Kalshane is right, that map is the location of the initial combat. If you look at the Town Square flip mat, the grey building with the steps is the western entrance to the cathedral, which is the same on Gustavo’s map.
Oh yes, I'm well aware that the map shows the cathedral square where the Initial Assault and Goblin Pyros encounters take place - I refer to that in my earlier post, in fact. But it's an extension of the Town Square flip mat map northwards, to include the street that leads up the the White Deer, where the Die, Dog, Die encounter takes place. That's what makes it useful, in my opinion.