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Champion Tier - The City of Marionette's - 52x60

Greetings everyone and happy Monday!

I'm always excited on Monday's to release my newest map to this amazing community of DM's and map enthusiasts. Today, I have a very special release for you; The City of Marionette's

This was a side project I had been working on for a classic AD&D adventure featuring the town of Odiare. This location has resurfaced in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft in a small paragraph on page 171 (though it looks like they changed the name from Odiare to Odaire). This gives a nugget of an idea but it's a great jumping off point! The toy maker Guiseppe had created his only child, the marionette Maligno. Feeling the mistrust of the other townsfolk of Maligno being a "real boy" he convinced his father to make him siblings. Together, they got rid of all the adults in the town and now the city is ruled over by this dark lord along with the children. This provides some great, Lord of the Flies inspired story beats and a good opportunity to use the neat stat block for the Carrionette (pg. 231). 

With the massive scale of this map (over 60 buildings) you could also use this for a larger scale Vallaki (though as written, Vallaki is a smaller town with dirt roads, I personally like to run it as a much larger city). 

I also created a DM Version to show you all of the various locations detailed around the city (and I added personal touches for each location to make them visible from the map level). I also created a dynamic night map which hides the vendor stalls and goods being displayed at night. I hope you enjoy this huge city map! 

For my Champion Tier patrons, this map comes in the following variants: 

I have plans to do separate maps for two of the interior map locations; The Toy Shop and the Theatre so stay tuned for that!

Up next, I'll be putting the finishing touches on my Yester Hill Berserker Cairn map this week. Additionally, I'm working on a new forest location for the Svalich Woods, more Interactive Tome of Strahd Maps, a few more Berez locations and some collab maps with content creators Pyram King and Lunch Break Heroes! Stay tuned!

Cheers,

DM Andy

Champion Tier - The City of Marionette's - 52x60 Champion Tier - The City of Marionette's - 52x60 Champion Tier - The City of Marionette's - 52x60 Champion Tier - The City of Marionette's - 52x60

Comments

I ran this adventure a few months ago! I wish I'd had these maps then!

DandD Bookclub

Sounds good, how's the progress going on that one probably one of the next few Monday releases?

Brad Bush

Awesome!! The Toy Shop will be fun to make and I would even recommend it as a newer map for Blinsky's in CoS :) I think you'll like the Toy Shop once it's released!

Andy D'Amato

I might be in the future. I do have plans to do separate maps for two locations; The Toy Shop and the Theatre. One of the challenges of doing small interiors on such a large map is the small level of details I like to add to interior locations don't scale down that small very well unless you're using an 8k file (some VTT's struggle with such large files). With that said, I would eventually like to take a shot and see if I can do an interior version like I've done with some of my other city maps :)

Andy D'Amato

I definitely look forward to the toy shop map. I got plot hook for my Grim Hollow Campaign with a toy maker dealing out his brand of justice to the nobles in town that should result in the party tracking the killer to his shop. The final battle with creepy toy music and toys attacking from everywhere.

Brad Bush

Would a version of a map like this, but with the build interiors exposed be in the works?

Frank Askvig

That's awesome! I've found, CoS is one of those campaigns where you generally run it more than once because it's so fun to run. Once I'm done with the last few locations of CoS, I plan on going back to my maps that are old (I started posting maps 1 year ago this month!) and create new versions of them as I think my skills have improved over the last year.

Andy D'Amato

Rest assured I am doing another CoS campaign so your content shall be put to very good use 👍

Dungeon of Terra

Thank you! WDH is an amazing adventure! :P My main goal right now is to finish CoS (though I'm almost done) however with that said, I 100% plan to do more city maps like this in different styles, I just don't know when yet. However, as a DM, I'm always in the need for a city map of some type and they fit into so many different campaigns I think there would be a lot of use. Glad you like this one!

Andy D'Amato

These are really nice, do you plan to more urban maps like this? No self interest at all, like I am totally not running a Waterdeep Dragon Heist game soon....

Dungeon of Terra


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