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Launch Maps - Japanese Castle Exterior, Bamboo Forest Shrine, Beach Episode Remake, Silk Pony Inn
🕑 Added 2024-11-22 14:00:21 +0000 UTCClick here to browse & download the launch maps!
Hello, gamemasters!
These maps have been available from the very moment of launch, but they still deserve an announcement, I think. Consider this a reminder to check them out if you haven't already! The free maps are in the header.
Bamboo Forest Shrine
The first I created chronologically & perhaps my favorite of the three when you add the bamboo canopies on top. When loaded into Foundry, this map has a really cool effect with the forest roof overlay tiles.
Thoughts
The bamboo whispers to passerbys the spoken words of past travelers.
Two ghostly warriors make havoc without regard for the living unlucky enough to be there for it.
The ancient, inhuman caretaker has just lost her most important spiritual prisoner.
Explorer Contents
Bamboo Forest Shrine: A dilapidated old shrine in a dense bamboo forest.
Stream: A thin gravelly stream runs down where a path might otherwise be!
Canopy Overlays: Built for VTT canopy usage!
Shrine Spiritual Confluence: A swirl of magic surrounds the shrine.
Day/Night Variants: Wherever applicable!
Master Contents
Shrine: A dilapidated old shrine in a dense bamboo forest.
Path: A winding path through the forest, dotted with roadside shrines, lanterns, and idols.
River: A path that crosses a river, with or without bridge.
Blood River: A flow of gore crossing a hellishly-lit landscape, with or without bridge. What is this, the setting of a nightmare? A nasty thorn-filled hole in Avernus?
Shrine Spiritual Confluence: A swirl of magic surrounds the shrine.
Stream: A thin gravelly stream runs down where a path might otherwise be!
Forest: A bamboo grove without the slightest hint of artificial structures, for characters who have absolutely gotten themselves lost, or who’ve encountered things in the middle of nowhere.
Canopy Overlays: Built for VTT canopy usage!
Day/Night Variants: Wherever applicable!
Beach Episode Remake
A peaceful beach arrayed with the elements of a small party. Someone here’s been enjoying themselves; what’s the occasion? Who got invited? More importantly, who WASN’T invited? Thieves? Challengers? An obnoxious rival? The players themselves?
This one is fun for me, because it's a direct comparison for how far I've come. Check out the 2020 original adjacent to the new version:
Thoughts
Savannas don’t show up enough in peoples’ campaigns. Deserts get a rap as consisting entirely of dunes! The chaparral variants could be used as a desert coastline, if you wanted.
Explorer Contents
Beach Episode: A large sandy coastline with rolling waves & an intermittent dirt cliff.
Party: A small beach party being thrown on the beach! Are you invited, or are you crashing it?
Night/Rain/Fog: For all applicable variants!
Murder: A bloody mess. The body’s been discarded, washed away in the surf. Who did this? Who was killed?
Master Contents
Beach Episode: A large sandy coastline with rolling waves & an intermittent dirt cliff.
Party: A small beach party being thrown on the beach! Are you invited, or are you crashing it?
Chaparral: A dry grassy shoreline dotted with poplar trees for an arid or desert climate.
Spring: Blooming cherry trees line the beach.
Cave: A sandy cave has been dug into the beach. For spring, chaparral, & grasslands.
Murder: A bloody mess. The body’s been discarded, washed away in the surf. Who did this? Who was killed? For all three biomes!
Night/Rain/Fog: For all applicable variants!
Japanese Castle Exterior
Here stands tall & proud the walls of Shogun Akiyama! Whether this castle rest on shore, up a mountain, or in a desert, it’s been covered & drawn in great detail. No bloody battle could break these mighty walls … right?
A surprising degree of spookiness for this map. It’s mostly the Deadlands variants that give me that feel, I think, but between the blood moons & the massacres the rest of the themes get plenty of it too. These castle walls are prepped for a siege; just supply the combatants.
Thoughts
Multiple simultaneous attack angles work nicely.
Walls like these are neutralized by flying beasts. The design of this castle implies it exists in a realm where those are rare. Perhaps it’d be a shock to the occupants to see them employed.
Those great barricading foundation walls by the sea (or grasslands, for some variants) could probably be scaled if you were slippery enough.
Explorer Contents
Shoreline Castle Exterior: A Japanese castle on the coast & its surroundings!
Aurora, Rain, Fog, Massacre, Blood Moon: For the shoreline castle!
Master Contents
Shoreline Castle Exterior: A Japanese castle on the coast & its surroundings!
Sandland: No rivers in the desert here. Just a lonely fortress with a patch of greenery.
Grasslands & Forests: Two separate environments for those who don’t want their castle to be on the shore! Forests are dangerous for a castle; who can see what’s coming?
Deadlands: An accursed land, or a demon’s realm? A seemingly haunted castle with a much darker tone, surrounded by fierce thorny woods.
Night Variants: For all location themes!
Fog: For all location themes!
Rain: For all location themes! Sandland gets a sandstorm instead.
Massacre: A bloody slaughter swept through here long before you arrived! For all location themes!
Aurora: A brilliant aurora! To celebrate something? An earth-shaking omen? For all location themes!
Blood Moon: A creeping scarlet mist, a bloody tone to the skies. Where water rests, it turns a brilliant red and stings of iron. For all location themes!
The Silk Pony Inn
A notorious gambling den popular with thieves & assassins. Some say the owner holds secret bloody bouts for prize money in the cellar on nights of the full moon. Others say a cult holds residence behind those barred wooden doors..?
Thoughts
Perhaps guards protect the cellar. They don’t want the law or the uninitiated to be snooping down there.
I wonder if the corpses from the illicit cellar fights have a buyer … or a consumer.
A valuable treasure is hidden in the gambling nook.
Explorer Contents
Silk Pony Inn: The notorious gambling den, brothel, brawling cellar & thieves’ lair — three floors’ worth, plus the roof.
Night Variants: For both above-ground stories & the roof!
Canopy Overlays: Separate roof tiles for canopy usage, if preferred!
Master Contents
Silk Pony Inn: The notorious gambling den, brothel, brawling cellar & thieves’ lair — three floors’ worth, plus the roof.
Day/Night/Rain Variants: Wherever applicable!
Clean Basement: In case you don’t want your fights to be quite so questionable.
Cult Basement: An altar & rug setup in the basement for those who prefer cultists instead of crooks.
Fire: Okay, who knocked over the lantern? Let’s hope the party isn’t asleep in one of those rooms when it happens.
Canopy Overlays: Separate roof tiles built for VTT canopy usage!
Formats
All maps are provided with & without square grids in WEBP format. (Please note that while WEBP is compatible with all major VTTs, it may not be previewable in old Windows 10 photo viewers.)
In addition, a Foundry module with a compendium of pre-built scenes for major variants is provided in the DnDungeon Master packs!
Furthermore, full-color PDF files in both single-page and divided poster formats are provided for printing!
The divided poster PDFs are cut into US Letter-size pages; they have guidelines, sheet numbering, & a convenient sheet for sticking them together after you’ve printed them out, and have margins so that you don’t have to be pixel-perfect when cutting with your scissors.
The single-sheet PDFs are suitable for making high-quality prints via print shops & on large-scale printers.
Download the maps from the Cyclopean website!
