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TMC - Temples | Vampire Hunters
🕑 Added 2024-10-07 18:44:27 +0000 UTCHey all!
We're here with our first Temples release of October, as well as updates on this month's Vampire Hunter content. Let's get to it!
The MAD Cartographer | Temples
Grand Church
This enormous church complex spans multiple buildings, as well as several floors; a balcony allows upper access to the prayer hall, and a staircase allows access to the tower several stories above the rest of the church.
Throughout the church secret corridors reveal to flights of stairs down to the sub-basements. These lead to entirely separate dungeon maps we've included as a bonus - as seen in our 5e MADventures 'Beneath Surestone Abbey' and 'Dorgath's Crypt'. Even without the 5e adventure supplements, these add not one but two levels of sprawling dungeon beneath this already large church.
For this map, we made use of Foundry's v12 'Scene Regions' feature to have the basement levels automatically be dark, so the DM doesn't need to adjust the scene darkness when characters descent down into the crypts. A 'side effect' of this is that the map will appear dark until a token is placed upon it.
We're keen to hear your direct feedback about this - does the convenience of not having to adjust the map make it worth it, or does the map appearing dark initially to you as the DM feel bad? Please let us know, as we're happy to provide whatever makes the Patrons' lives easier!
For the Grand Church map, we collaborated with JamesRPGArt, who made an art scene to accompany this map!
We've included this scene within the Foundry module. Members of our All the Things tier can find the Still and Animated (.GIF and .MP4 versions) in the Collaborations folder on pCloud!
Temple of the First Ones
A member of the team was very much inspired by the Göbekli Tepe for this map, and wanted to create an outdoor, arid ancient path leading to a worship site - this led to the Temple of the First Ones!
This winding desert path is designed in a way where you could have it be a tight corridor, a cliff-face path, or even tunnels! Equipment, offerings, and braziers lead the way deep into the network until finally a large central cavern chamber is reached, guarded by (and containing!) gem-studded statues and ancient treasures.
A variant is included for Day/Night.
Temple of Light
Mythic Greece 2 didn't win the recent poll, so Harrison will sneak Mythic Greece content to you via other themes!
The Temple of Light is our take on the classic, grand temple dedicated to deities of light, purity, and good - without straying into the realms of the martial paladin protector (that comes later this month!)
Large statues, symbols of the sun, bright braziers, and clean open spaces - This temple can fulfil the portfolios of many good-aligned deities, and we're confident it can find a place in many games!
Variants are included for Day/Night.
The gallery has been updated with this content, as well as pCloud, which you can access through your Theme Master List and the Foundry VTT module is updated and ready to be downloaded.
Vampire Hunters | This Month
This month we'll be bringing you the massive Vallaki Reformation Center map and full supplement from the inimitable MandyMod! This is an extremely popular additional location and adventure hub in the town of Vallaki, and is a multi-story compound and detention center including dungeon.
We'll be bringing you this map in full with the final release of this month!
The Future of Vampire Hunters
Those who are familiar with the Curse of Strahd adventure will probably be aware that we don't have a great many locations left to cover in the official adventure. As we have budgeted our time (and literally our budget) over the course of the year, it was always inevitable that some of the larger maps would come as full-month deliveries near the end.
Currently we have one artist working full-time on Argynvostholt since July, and another has been working on Castle Ravenloft since June. There are also a couple of smaller locations that we're looking to include, but our current plan is to release Castle Ravenloft to you in its entirety this December!
This will mark the completion of the Vampire Hunter adventure tier, and we'll announce our next adventure tier which we're already hard at work on!
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That's all from us today! We'll be back soon with another batch of Temples maps.
Until then...
Keep Rollin' those 20's, folks!
Harrison, Alex, & Team MAD
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