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The Mountain Monastery

Added 2019-06-17 10:52:08 +0000 UTC

This map was a personal challenge to mimic an authentic watercolor painting style, and I think we just about did it. Obviously it's far from perfect, but it has character, and I stretched my skills trying to make it so. Those two things are what I aim for with each map, so I'll count this as a success, even if I'm not quite satisfied with it!

I also rather like the line-only version of this map, so I have gone ahead and added that to the download package. So, you can choose a watercolor-esque style or a brush-pen-only style.

As for the contents of the map, we went with a theme of threes: three trees, three temples, three carved faces, three bridges, and three gates.Whether you work this into the lore of the town or not is up to you, but it was a fun rule to design by!

You will have to excuse my un-creative naming when it comes to the kanji, I usually name things in very simple Japanese because my players don't know better. For your benefit, the town is called "three trees," and the temples (from left to right) the "water-, wind-, and fire temples." Original, I know! I suggest you tell your players these mean something much cooler, and pray that they don't know kanji.

This map was a fun challenge, and I hope you have fun challenging your players with it. Please, let me know what lore, NPCs, and other tidbits you come up with!

Thanks to you, this map is released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, beginning after the Patreon pre-release.