Curse of the Crimson Throne - EOA

jstgtpaid · Post by **jstgtpaid** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:43 pm

I am working on converting the Pathfinder adventure Curse of the Crimson Throne to 4e. Naturally I want to play this using Maptools. I am really having fun making the encounter maps, so I thought I would share them here... Here are the first potential encounter maps in the first adventure, Edge of Anarchy... I have the full size images in my gallery.

3 Lancet Street

3 Lancet Street (upper floor)

Old Fishery (nasty place)

Old Fisher (lower floor)

Sepp · Post by **Sepp** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:20 pm

Those are nice.

Azhrei · Post by **Azhrei** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:47 pm

I appreciate you creating these maps and making them available. I would like to run that adventure path at some point...

How are you building the maps? Is each one its own campaign? If not, how are you doing objects that PCs can interact with, ie. chairs, tables, beds, etc?

plothos · Post by **plothos** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:41 am

Nice job.
Any chance you could point me to where you got that boat image?

jstgtpaid · Post by **jstgtpaid** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:44 am

Azhrei wrote:I appreciate you creating these maps and making them available. I would like to run that adventure path at some point...

How are you building the maps? Is each one its own campaign? If not, how are you doing objects that PCs can interact with, ie. chairs, tables, beds, etc?

I am building the maps 100% in Maptools. I have a huge repository of objects that are available at various places and I am just using the drawing tools and objects that are available.

If an object can be manipulated by players, I have put it in the object layers. Some 'objects' that I bring in like plants, or columns etc that are not movable go in the background layer.

I am not done with this adventure path yet. I plan to have one campaign per module. So Edge of Anarchy will be one campaign, then seven days from the grave will be the next campaign etc.

Obviously I don't plan on mapping this whole city. I plan to map the main encounters, a tavern or two, some stores, and the random encounters. Currently I am putting one encounter per map, so each of the images above are a separate map. I will put out the campaign file later. RIght now, I just have the exported images...

I will try to find where that ship image came from, then I will post that link.

Azhrei · Post by **Azhrei** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:53 pm

That sounds like a great plan re: maps and campaigns. Thanks again.

Mythknight · Post by **Mythknight** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:56 pm

I can understand creating a few custom maps that are not included in the module but why are you recreating the entire Fishery map? I just copied the map out of the module then uploaded it into maptools. I was able to get the grid to almost perfectly match as well.

On a side note I am running this module in the Pathfinder ruleset (as I greatly prefer this to the 4E crap they call rules) in two different game (my home one and a PbP).[/img]

jstgtpaid · Post by **jstgtpaid** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:49 pm

Mythknight wrote:I can understand creating a few custom maps that are not included in the module but why are you recreating the entire Fishery map? I just copied the map out of the module then uploaded it into maptools. I was able to get the grid to almost perfectly match as well.

On a side note I am running this module in the Pathfinder ruleset (as I greatly prefer this to the 4E crap they call rules) in two different game (my home one and a PbP).[/img]

In all honesty, the main reason why I would recreate them is because I enjoy making the maps so much. It also gives me the added benefit of having the objects that users can interact with. But, the main reason is the joy of creating the maps.

I have read alpha 1 and 2 of the Pathfinder ruleset and I think they are doing a fantastic job. I am a huge fan of Paizo. I think they are the 'gamers company'. That said, I currently enjoy playing 4e, but I hope to play some Pathfinder too (maybe when I get a copy of the beta ruleset).

Mythknight · Post by **Mythknight** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:55 pm

jstgtpaid wrote:
Mythknight wrote:I can understand creating a few custom maps that are not included in the module but why are you recreating the entire Fishery map? I just copied the map out of the module then uploaded it into maptools. I was able to get the grid to almost perfectly match as well.

On a side note I am running this module in the Pathfinder ruleset (as I greatly prefer this to the 4E crap they call rules) in two different game (my home one and a PbP).[/img]
In all honesty, the main reason why I would recreate them is because I enjoy making the maps so much. It also gives me the added benefit of having the objects that users can interact with. But, the main reason is the joy of creating the maps.

I have read alpha 1 and 2 of the Pathfinder ruleset and I think they are doing a fantastic job. I am a huge fan of Paizo. I think they are the 'gamers company'. That said, I currently enjoy playing 4e, but I hope to play some Pathfinder too (maybe when I get a copy of the beta ruleset).

Why do you not have the Beta rules yet? Here is the link http://paizo.com/store/paizo/pathfinder ... 48btpy84o0

Full Bleed · Post by **Full Bleed** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:56 pm

jstgtpaid wrote:I am building the maps 100% in Maptools. I have a huge repository of objects that are available at various places and I am just using the drawing tools and objects that are available.

These are some of the best 100% in-maptools maps I've seen yet.

How big are these campaign files?

Do you have somewhere that you can host them?

jstgtpaid · Post by **jstgtpaid** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:04 pm

Mythknight wrote:
Why do you not have the Beta rules yet? Here is the link http://paizo.com/store/paizo/pathfinder ... 48btpy84o0

Heh, cool! You know.. I guess it has been a while since I looked at it... I seem to recall now they were going to release the print version at Gen Con... For some reason it didn't click... LOL... Thanks for the link!

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jstgtpaid · Post by **jstgtpaid** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:07 pm

Full Bleed wrote:
jstgtpaid wrote:I am building the maps 100% in Maptools. I have a huge repository of objects that are available at various places and I am just using the drawing tools and objects that are available.
These are some of the best 100% in-maptools maps I've seen yet.

How big are these campaign files?

Do you have somewhere that you can host them?

I have no idea how big the files are to be honest... I will upload the campaign files to my gallery soon. I am not done with it yet, but I guess I will just keep it updated in case someone wants to use the maps. I don't have any tokens on the map because I was thinking that if I made it token free then non 4e players could use it if they wanted too...

I will post the link to my gallery once I get it uploaded...

Full Bleed · Post by **Full Bleed** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:44 am

jstgtpaid wrote:I have no idea how big the files are to be honest... I will upload the campaign files to my gallery soon. I am not done with it yet, but I guess I will just keep it updated in case someone wants to use the maps. I don't have any tokens on the map because I was thinking that if I made it token free then non 4e players could use it if they wanted too...

I will post the link to my gallery once I get it uploaded...

I think the gallery has a 2 meg limit... and with all of the objects you have on those maps, I'm fairly certain you're going to be over the limit.

jstgtpaid · Post by **jstgtpaid** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:31 am

Yes. I checked and it is 16megs... I will try to decrease the size by reviewing the objects and the such, but it will never get down to 2mg. I will host it else where then... I will post a note when I get that straightened out...