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Hey everyone! Here's the long awaited Lightning Rail map!

We made 12 train cars altogether with alternate versions of some of those, like an empty version of the cargo car so you can fill it with whatever treasure your party wants to steal...

In the image at the top we've put together some ideas for different train cars you might want to use for getting across Eberron (or wherever else they may take you). The cars themselves are modular so you can arrange them however you like.

Check out all the cars here:

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Edit: all patrons can get the tracks here.

Lightning Rail $1 Rewards 

Lightning Rail $3 Rewards 

Lightning Rail $5 Rewards 

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Here's the full lineup of what cars each tier gets:

(each has a transparent background so you can overlay them on whatever map you want)

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Jedireaper

Hi! How do I get the animated tracks?

Grand Maître Chat

Makes me thinks of Kimetsu no Yaiba. Sir let me says I do not regret spending 5 bucks for all that greatness. Keep em going

Kielley Bade

This is exciting since I've got a game I'm running with traaains! <3

monosyllabicmonk

Love love love how you balanced the colors on this one!

Peter Holthaus

This thing is about as cool as map packs get!

Czepeku

Thanks Peter! It's crazy how long you've been supporting us for. Thanks so much! :)

Dazzle and Crow

Agreed, I'd love to have the background with the rails as well!

BeardedTech

Awesome Map ( well all of them are ) i see a train heist in my players future would also love the rail and background

Cameo A Lenox

Any way to get the rail and the background? I'd love a night version of the background!

Alex Phen

+1 for railroad background

Czepeku

Just released them today! Enjoy.

Czepeku

Cameo we just released them, so you can get the backgrounds now.

Czepeku

Just released the tracks today!

Czepeku

Tracks were released today, you can find them on the front page.

Czepeku

Hi Lee, just released the tracks.

Teive

Potentially silly question--how do you envision players/characters travelling from one car to another?

Czepeku

I'm not sure if i have the PSD files still but i'll add this to a to-do list!

Czepeku

Mainly a leap of faith!

Teive

I feel bad for all the non-adventurers who just want to get to the dining cart! (; I ended up taking 4 squares of paneling from the front of the train and a windowed wall and added it between all of the cars (windows are in so players could see lightning arcing between the other two golden panels). Thanks for making these by the way! I subbed today for these in particular and they really are great. I'm excited for the players to see tonight!

Nix & Checkers

Modular map sets like this, the airships, and the dragons are imho some of my absolute favorite and most helpful posts. While all your maps are beautiful, these ones lend themselves to so many unforseen possibilities and long-term multi-scenario usefulness, and I know I'll be using all of them. You might get a kick out of seeing this : I looped and animated the rails and dropped it on my VTT background to awesome results: https://imgur.com/a/gsLMh5r Anyway, I love this set, and really hope to see more of the variable-form stuff you guys do so well! Only note I gotta echo is that it could really use a small connector piece. Passenger trains and mysteries go hand in hand, and intrigue is vastly improved when passengers can plausibly move between cars.

Alex Rybitski

Would you be willing to make a roof for these? It feels wrong to have a train encounter without the PCs going on top of these cars!

Czepeku

The airship assaulting the train is very cool and creative! Modular maps have in general been our least popular which is why we don't focus on them but we plan to do more in future!

Czepeku

We plan to make a Lightning Rail Station eventually. When we do that, we'll try to add train roofs for these too. Unfortunately its difficult to spare time to continue old maps like these as we're always working on the next map. :)

Alex Rybitski

Awesome, and understandable! Thank you guys for all the great content :)

Carl Baughman

When you do the Station can you also do a proper caboose?

Dread Maps

Is there anyway to combine the Foundry ready versions into one big map? Unsure if you can just copy and paste things, it probably wont work

Czepeku

Honestly we just make the maps, we're not experts at using Foundry. I'd ask either on our Discord or on the Foundry Discord. You'll find users there that have a better knowledge of these things.

James Long

FoundryVTT?? Of course you can! Foundry has the ability to paste tiles all over the map! In fact, with the Levels mod, or the Multi-level Tokens, you can have the ground level, box car level, rooftop level, and airship level.. all on the same map. :O :O :O There are also several mods to make your character tokens automagically bop from one scene (map) to the next when they cross over in the right place. There is a neat little farm demo map with the Levels mod that demonstrates the functionality. Who did that covered bridge.. Oh yeah! Some kid using the Mad Cartographer handle (not the old school guy).. he published a covered bridge map (for free) with four levels, it lets you go under the bridge to the water level, on the bridge (road) level, up in the rafters of the bridge, AND up on the roof of the bridge! Very cool stuff. :) I mean.. the map quality is lacking a bit, basically default DungeonDraft style.. but the architecture is a good demo of what you can do with the technology in FoundryVTT. :)

Jesse Marcus

Hi, new to the Patreon (awesome stuff!). I see you have a mix of cars that show their interiors and cars with closed roofs -- but it is there a version of the engine/control room car with a closed roof? I'd like to do a scene for PCs running along the top of the train cars, but I can't seem to find an engine car with a roof.

Zac Clay

Found it. Search for their "Train Station Platforms" pack and there's a little hyperlink at the end of the sentence "All patrons can get those assets here." Click the "here" and you'll get the engine car with a closed roof.