Building 8 – Leather Worker

Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for a number of shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. As I draw these, I also have the overhead views drawn out on a map of the city block as I go, so when the series is complete you can use them on their own, or as a fully mapped out block of shops.

This is our eighth shop on the street, sandwiched into the space between the Random & Market Tavern, and The Riddle of Steel (a building shared by a blacksmith and fortune teller), and across from Hammerhead Loans.

Red’s Leather is a very small shop with a closed-off yard behind it where work on raw leather is done – while most of the leather here is purchased from one of the local tanneries, Red also does custom work and produces specialized leathers from hides brought in by adventurers, scavengers, and monster slayers. This is much to the chagrin of the fortune teller next door as the stench that comes from the back yard when chemically tanning hellhound hide can chase off customers for a few days.

Red goes home in the evenings, but the upper level of the main workshop has a bed where Red’s apprentice lives and sleeps (and guards the shop). The ground floor has a small shop in the front displaying Red’s wares, and the back is a much larger and taller workshop space with a small mezzanine on the south side that is the housing for the aforementioned apprentice.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,600 x 3,900 pixels (32 x 13 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) – so resizing the image to 2,240 x 910 pixels.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/08/08/reds-leather-works/