Redstone Shrine (with time lapse video!)
Added 2015-08-21 15:23:27 +0000 UTCOne thing with running the classic “Dwellers of the Forbidden City” module – there’s a lot of opportunity to draw up ruined and partially ruined temples and other buildings to scatter throughout the area as most of it is presented from above at a scale of 50 feet per square.
And since I’m running that module currently, I’ve started drawing up some of the buildings that I expect to have turn up during play. This one is a small shrine where the floors and interior surfaces are made of red granite blocks. It was a shrine to one of the forgotten gods of the Forbidden City, but if we knew to whom exactly, it wouldn’t be much of a forgotten god, right?
Late at night a few mongrelmen sneak out to the shrine (outside of their traditional territory) to engage in quiet contemplation and make offerings of food and herbs. They believe that the shrine was a birthing place of their race.
I’ve also recorded a short 8x speed video of me drawing this small map.
You can download the 300dpi map, and watch the time lapse video over at the blog post at https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/friday-map-redstone-shrine-with-time-lapse-video/
Comments
I like the suggestion of flagstone/block flooring with the minimalistic enhancement of the corners of the grid from the graph paper.
Wine Guy
2015-08-22 14:00:52 +0000 UTCGreat Map as always. I liked the video too. I watched that before really looking at the map or reading what you wrote and I was a bit confused initially as I thought you were drawing collapsed hallways and I was trying to think how the party would have to dig through all those collapsed sections. About 1/2 way through I light bulb went off and I realized they were walls. It made a lot more sense after that. :-)
Alarian DarkWind
2015-08-21 18:04:16 +0000 UTC
