Map Pack City: Weapon Store

There are quite a few single tile locations in the City. I'd double them up, but I don't have time to edit the images today. Here's the Weapon Store.



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Map Pack City: Blacksmith

Next up is the single tile Blacksmith Shop.



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Map Pack City: Apartment

On to Map Pack: City! First up is the single tile Apartment.



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The Lightless Depths

The Lightless Depths Savage Item Set

Price: $8

Cards (21): 2 armors (studded leather, chain shirt), 2 weapons (flail, spear), 5 potions, 3 rings, 1 staff, 1 wand, 7 wondrous (2 bracers, cloak, periapt, pearl, necklace, bottle)

Table of items

Tides of Dread

Tides of Dread Savage Item Set

Price: $10

Cards (26): 3 armors (studded leather, breastplate, chain shirt), 9 weapons (rapier, 2 longswords, 2 daggers, spiked gauntlet, longbow, greatsword, sickle), 1 potion, 2 rings, 1 wand, 10 wondrous (2 pearls, 2 gemstones, 3 amulets, demon fang, cloak, boots)

Table of items


Tides of Dread Extended Item Set

Price: $7

Cards (18): 4 armors (chain shirt, studded leather, hide, wooden shield), 3 weapons (shortsword, rapier, scimitar), 3 potions, 1 ring, 3 wands, 4 wondrous (amulet, 2 cloaks, pearl)

Table of items

Map Pack Dungeon: Spiked Pit

OK, so we didn't beat Acererak, but we did get away with some nice loot. And nobody got thrown into a pit like this.



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Map Pack Graveyard Gallery

Here are all eighteen tiles from Map Pack: Graveyard. They work together as a whole much better than the Village or Countryside sets.


Cemetary Gate and Gravedigger's Hut
Church
Mausoleum and Monument
Crypt
Graves


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Map Pack Dungeon: Ruined Temple

The layout of this four tile room is a lot like a chamber in the Tomb of Horrors. My rogue PC Arvandor and his party are currently doing their best to pwn Acererak.



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Map Pack Dungeon: Interrogation Chamber

This lovely two tile room put me in mind of a recent series of Nodwick strips (use the back and forward arrows for more of the series).



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Map Pack Dungeon: Beast Lair

Some big nasty thing busted out of the gates on these four tiles, and now they're roaming the dungeon looking for your PCs. Enjoy!



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Farewell, Dungeon. Hello, Pathfinder!

The news is all over RPG messageboards now, but I first heard about it on Slashdot. Wizards of the Coast are taking back the Dungeon and Dragon magazine licenses from Paizo in order to do something online, while Paizo will concentrate on its other product lines and launch a subscription-based adventure path book series called Pathfinder. Paizo's press release is pretty thorough on the subject, including nice preview pictures.

As mentioned in a previous post, I consider Dungeon one of the tools in my DM toolkit. I enjoy the blend of adventures, campaign workbook articles, comics, and letters. Even the advertisements have led to valuable discoveries a time or two. It will be sad to see it go.

That said, I have great confidence in the Paizo staff and their contributing artists and authors. It sounds like many of the component parts of Dungeon (adventure paths, single adventures, comics, etc.) will be moving into their own product lines. Letters from and to the editor will be available in the messageboards and blogs, so the only thing I expect I'll be losing is the advertisements. I assume that (and the book binding) are the main reasons the Pathfinder series will be $20 a month for 96 pages instead of Dungeon's $8.

So I'll probably continue to pick and choose from Paizo's product line the way I do today. I'm not sure if I'll subscribe to Pathfinder, as I've still got 2 1/2 adventure paths ready to run (Age of Worms, Savage Tide, Ptolus). Still, I expect it will be great and I wish Paizo every success!

Derek Poppink
GameMastery Uberfan

Map Pack Dungeon: Barracks & Storeroom

The two single tile locations from the Dungeon Chambers set are the Guard Barracks and the Abandoned Storeroom. It was hard to tell the difference at first, as the barracks is incredibly messy and the storeroom is fairly neat, albeit nearly empty.




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Map Pack Dungeon: Lava Bridge

I haven't had time to pull together a composite image for the Graveyard pack yet, so I'll move on and introduce a location from Map Pack: Dungeon Chambers. First up is the four tiles of the Bridge over Bubbling Lava. If you look closely at the center of the image, you might be able to see the four arrows that tell you how the tiles align with one another (which required guesswork in previous map packs).



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Map Pack Graveyard: Graves

Here they are: the charming open and closed graves that fill out the cemetary, along with two winding paths and a strange gated hole in the ground.



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Map Pack Graveyard: Crypt

This is a Crypt. A what? A Crypt. A what? A Crypt. Oh, a Crypt!

Any other former JET teachers out there?



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Map Pack Graveyard: Mausoleum and Monument

Those who die with the most stuff win, right? Well, at least they get something like this Mausoleum or Monument for their grave.




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Map Pack Graveyard: Church

The Church (4 tiles) is probably right outside the cemetary gate. You can see a larger version of two of the tiles on the product page.



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DM Toolkit

As I'm doing with the Map Pack and Item Card galleries, I thought it would be good to have a centralized post for all my DM Toolkit articles. Here's what I've got so far:

Dungeons & Dragons Minis
DM's Familiar
Dwarven Forge
Tact Tiles
Area of Effect Templates
WorldWorks
Fantastic Locations, Map Packs, & Dungeon Tiles
Dungeon Magazine
Counter Collections

Map Pack Graveyard: Cemetary Gate & Gravedigger's Hut

Time to venture among the tombstones with Map Pack: Graveyard. At the entrance to the graveyard we find these two tiles, the Cemetary Gate and the Gravedigger's Hut.




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Here There Be Monsters

Here There Be Monsters Savage Item Set

Price: $6

Cards (15): 1 armor (buckler), 2 weapons (spear, warhammer), 1 potion, 2 rings, 1 rod, 1 wand, 7 wondrous (2 cloaks, pearl, 2 bracers, boots, crown)

Table of items


Here There Be Monsters Extended Item Set

Price: $2.75

Cards (7): 1 armor (leather), 3 potions, 1 ring, 1 scroll, 1 wand

Table of items

The Sea Wyvern's Wake

The Sea Wyvern's Wake Savage Item Set

Price: $7.50

Cards (19): 5 armors (studded leather, buckler, leather, chainmail, tower shield), 2 weapons (rapier, dagger, 3 potions, 1 ring, 4 scrolls, 4 wondrous (boots, gauntlets, cloak, prayer beads)

Table of items


The Sea Wyvern's Wake Extended Item Set

Price: $5.50

Cards (14): 1 weapon (longbow), 8 potions, 1 ring, 1 scroll, 1 wand, 2 wondrous (cloak, salve)

Table of items

The Bullywug Gambit

The Bullywug Gambit Savage Item Set

Price: $10

Cards (25): 3 armors (studded leather, hide, leather suit), 6 weapons (rapier, axe, dagger, crossbow, greatclub, scimitar), 7 potions, 2 rings, 1 staff, 1 wand, 5 wondrous (salve, belt, 2 boots, periapt)

Table of items


The Bullywug Gambit Extended Item Set

Price: $4.25

Cards (11): 3 armors (leather, wooden shield, chain shirt), 1 weapon (rapier), 1 potion, 1 ring, 2 wands, 3 wondrous (2 cloaks, boots)

Table of items

There Is No Honor

There Is No Honor Savage Item Set

Price: $7.50

Cards (19): 2 armors (chain shirt, leather suit), 1 weapon (rapier), 8 potions, 1 ring, 4 wands, 3 wondrous (amulet, bracers, gemstone)

Table of items

Map Pack Countryside Gallery

Here are all 18 tiles from Map Pack: Countryside. They don't tile as easily as the Village set, but you can make a relatively continuous map with them.


Rope Bridge
Campsite
Ambush
Road Shrine
Toll Bridge
Ruins
Coaching Inn


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Lower Prices on Sets and Cards

I decided to lower the prices on the sets and individual cards I'm selling directly (as opposed to auctioning). Here is the summary:

• Complete Relics or Hoard sets: $50 (16% off)
• Ring, Scroll, Rod/Staff/Wand, and Potion subsets: $2 - $6.75 (25% off)
• Individual cards: $.40 (20% off)
• Matching sets: $.35 each (22% off)
• Variety sets: $.30 each (25% off)
  

I will update the pricing on the Savage and Wormy Item Sets later. Enjoy!

Map Pack Countryside: Coaching Inn

The largest of the Countryside locations is the Coaching Inn (6 tiles). Probably a lot safer than the Campsite, too.



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Map Pack Countryside: Toll Bridge

You can see a larger version of the Toll Bridge (2 tiles) with branding by clicking the image on the Map Pack: Countryside product page. It's included here for completeness.



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Map Pack Countryside: Ruins

The Ruins is unique among the Map Packs I've opened so far, in that it uses 3 tiles. The Map Pack: Countryside product page displays it at an oblique angle with miniatures on it.



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New Auctions

I opened two more display boxes of Relics last week and discovered quite a few of the cards I needed to complete sets. I was very excited to get two Bracers (94/110), although technically one of them came out of a bonus pack I received with my replacement copy of the GameMastery Campaign Workbook.

I've created several new eBay auctions: a Complete Relics Set and several Hoard subsets (Potions, Wands, Scrolls). I also added a single auction for all ten rings in the Relics and Hoard sets.

If you're interested in buying cards or sets, don't feel like you need to go through eBay. The auctions are a way for me to advertise to people who have not seen my blog. I'm happy to sell directly, which saves me quite a bit in eBay fees. Click the Cards & Sets for Sale & Trade link over on the right to see what's available.

Map Pack Countryside: Road Shrine

The smallest of the Countryside locations is the Road Shrine (1 tile).



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Map Pack Countryside: Ambush

Our third set of two tiles is the Ambush. The King's Road from Fantastic Locations: Fields of Ruin also makes a good ambush site.



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Map Pack Countryside: Campsite

Another stable of wilderness travel is the Campsite (2 tiles). This one is just asking for a random encounter.


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Map Pack Countryside: Rope Bridge

Next up are the tiles from Map Pack: Countryside. I'll lead off with the Rope Bridge (2 tiles).



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Map Pack Village Gallery

Here it is! All 18 tiles from the Map Pack: Village arranged in a possible configuration.


Shrine
Apothecary
Gallows & Stables
Marketplace
General Store
Tavern


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Map Pack Village: Tavern

The pièce de résistance of the Village set is the Tavern, composed of six tiles. These can't be mixed and matched, but they can be taped together nicely. It looks like the edges don't match perfectly, but that's an artifact of my scans and digital editing rather than the actual product.


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