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April's Alt-Version Poll!

  • Travelling Theatre Troupe - a stage production set up in the 'arena', with ticket stalls, tents, outside tavern, caravans and wagons etc. 58
  • Deadlands Fight Pit - A Conan/Dark Sun type location, with a dry dead landscape and a brutal fightpit. 35
  • Dark Druidic Ritual Site - A dark semi-fey forest, with the circular location adored with animal skulls, overgrown altars 44
  • The Ruined Tower - a crumbling stone tower/small castle in the forest. Will include bandit/goblin camp version, as well as standard. 43
  • Winter Barbarian Sacrifice - a sacrificial Barbarian location with bloody altar, and small settlement to the south 22
  • Military Camp Portal - a military camp with tents, wagons and equipments near a magical portal - are they going in, or have they arrived? 34
  • The Magmafalls Arena - a spectacular gladiatorial event in front of a lava fall. A grand event! 23
  • The Offering Circle - a dark forest, with a post/stone in the circle where human offerings are made to a huge ancient beast. 53
  • 2023-03-14
  • —2023-03-16
  • 312 votes
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Hey everyone,

First, we're really blown away by how well received the Elven Wedding map has been. Can't wait to share it with you all!

Secondly, there's so many amazing ideas for Alts that we've got quite an extensive 'shortlist'. Because of that, we've decided that the runner up in this poll will be May's Third Map.

So, the options are:

Travelling Theatre Troupe - a stage production set up in the 'arena', with ticket stalls, tents, outside tavern, caravans and wagons etc.

Deadlands Fight Pit - A Conan/Dark Sun type location, with a dry dead landscape and a brutal fightpit.

Dark Druidic Ritual Site - A dark semi-fey forest, with the circular location adored with animal skulls, overgrown altars and standing stones.

The Ruined Tower - a crumbling stone tower/small castle in the forest. Will include bandit/goblin camp version, as well as standard.

Winter Barbarian Sacrifice - a sacrificial Barbarian location with bloody altar, and small settlement to the south

Military Camp Portal - a military camp with tents, wagons and equipments near a magical portal - are they going in, or have they arrived?

The Magmafalls Arena - a spectacular gladiatorial event in front of a lava fall. A grand event!

The Offering Circle - a dark forest, with a post/stone in the circle where human offerings are made to a huge ancient beast.

Soooooo many good ideas!

The poll runs for 4 hours, and you can vote for as many as you'd like! Remember, the runner up will be made too!

Comments

Curious

Could really use the magma fight arena, heading to the plane of fire soon, they are all awesome.

Lloyd Ritchey

Magma fight arena? Somebody see the Northman lately?

Dave Lindsay

Many voted for forest maps, but it already is a forest map :-( Just dropping/swapping a few prefab objects on the base map and (optionally) adding blue night time tint can easily produce Travelling Theatre, Ruined Tower, and Military Camp. I feel it's a shame to vote for these, cause then we miss out on variants that cannot be created by post-publish edits... I know a lot of people are running generic euro centric campaigns, but please spare a thought for those who don't need another bandit/military/goblin camp in the forest (HeroicMaps have already produced dozens of these).

Charles Seljos

Agreed; the more exotic the map, the more difficult is for me to produce/cobble something together myself. Maps of forests and camps are plentiful; we have several excellent Heroic Maps with these kinds of locations already. The Dark Sun-style arena and the Magmafalls arena are probably beyond my ability to make myself in a satisfactory manner.

David Kline

I feel like it’s been ages since I saw a truly unique suggestion win.

albedoequals1

4 hours is a pretty short poll. I don't even check my email once per 4 hours. Didn't it used to be 2 days?

Keith Curtis

Shoot. I still missed it. Serves me right for not checking my email more regularly. At least the voting pretty much matches what I would have wanted. :D