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Hi folks,
One of the poster maps I'm hoping to bring to market soon has an Egyptian temple motif, and it has been pointed out that it would feel at home in an Osirion-based campaign. With that in mind, I wanted to get the thoughts of folks in this community:
http://www.mapsofmastery.com/images/deepvistas/chapelofscarabs.jpg
Here's a close-up of the pit crawling with beetles:
http://www.mapsofmastery.com/images/deepvistas/ChapelOfScarabs-beetles.jpg
If my Kickstarter funding drive for the 6-map "Deep Vistas" set is successful, this will probably become available here at Paizo's store, so your opinions are particularly relevant to me. Is this a map that you would use in your Pathfinder campaign? If not, how should I tailor future maps to work well in Golarion?
This is awesome, exactly what we are looking fore :) how about some maps for towns, taverns, keeps and castles for Kingmaker :) or general buildings for cities :) Like liveries, chapels, taverns etc :)
perhaps in a bundle :)
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Funny you should mention that; one of the projects I'm working on to follow this one is a set of poster maps that present a town with key buildings all mapped out. It should be adaptable enough to be useful in a number of campaigns, and I'm hoping to take a different approach with it than has been done before.
That might be delayed, though, since this Kickstarter drive with the Chapel of Scarabs doesn't seem likely to reach the goal at the present pace. There's only a week and a half left, and we're not quite half way to the funding goal to get them printed.
If you guys can share this link with others in your gaming groups, I'd appreciate it:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mapmaker/deep-vistas-poster-map-set
Gonna Twitter :)
Great maps to bad my gaming money has dried up till my wife is better
The artwork is fantastic.
And I love that the main chamber has lots of room to maneuver. Many maps become cramped in order to become interesting. This one is spacious and interesting.
(Aren't you glad you took Bullrush. . .)
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Bullrush is an excellent tactic on a lot of my maps; I'm a big fan of treacherous pits. :)
In this one, the peril can come to you...the numerous floor grates are designed to allow swarm creatures to emerge from the floor and flank PCs without warning. I personally had a kobold ranger in-party NPC skeletonized on this map by a swarm of flesh-eating beetles...
I love the scarab mosaics set into the floor, and the general design of the temple, both from an aesthetic standpoint and the tactical of giving lot of angles for flesh-eating beetles to attack from.
That said, if you wouldn't mind a small criticism before this goes to press....
(cue voice of high priest inspecting his new evil temple)
"Very nice. Very nice. I like the scarab mosaics. Very pretty. And the throne isn't too ostentatious and there's plenty of room on the dais for guards with scimitars, and slaves to wave palm frond fans. I approve.
However, are those 20th century modern anodized aluminum industrial grates? Wouldn't brass or bronze feel a little more ancient Osirian and harmonize with the color scheme better? And would it be possible to make the grates a little more ornamental, maybe put in some sun disks or lotuses or palm fronds or something? I know they're there so we can have the scarabs devour the unfaithful and the faithful alike, but there's so many of them, it would be nice if they were a little prettier, and would seem less anachronistic too."
Okay, maybe that's the high priest as interior decorator, but still the same point: the grates look extremely modern.
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Hmm. I hadn't thought of them that way, but I suppose I can see your point. I was going for simple, but that can sometimes come across as modern. I like the alternative metals idea; that's something I'll need to keep in mind for future maps.
I might also do something like that on the terrain card that will come with this poster; maybe swapping the style and treatment of a section of floor.
Thanks for the feedback! :)
I am all for anything Osirion, like an AP hint, hint!!
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I wouldn't mind seeing an Osirion-based AP, either. I'd love to do the maps for it, too, for that matter. :)
By the way, there are only 44 hours left to back my Deep Vistas project; if it doesn't reach the funding goal by midnight on Monday, the posters won't see print. If anyone wants to back this project or help me get the word out to other gamers, this is the time...
Thanks folks!
Here's a link to the Kickstarter page: http://kck.st/e9xXaZ