Village Square (Patreon)

Hey there! This week's map is the Village Square, a compact 30x30 map with all kinds of obstacles to make combat interesting. I like making these kinds of maps with jumbled layouts because it offers opportunities to fight at short, mid, and long range as need be, making sure that any player can use their full array of spells and weapons as long as they're crafty about positioning and cover.  

This one is actually based off of a little side quest I put together for my players while they were on the road. Stopping by the town's inn, they were tasked by the village elder to catch a big dangerous beast that had been emerging from the nearby forest to prowl the village's streets at night, causing damage to the town in an apparent rabid frenzy. As it turned out, a trapper in town (whose house had taken some damage from the creature) had captured a couple of the rare beast's cubs and had them caged in his cellar with the intention of selling them later, but of course he felt he had done nothing wrong. Will your party find a way to free the cubs, or will they slay the rare beast and harvest the various valuable monster parts? 

Also, just a thought, someone mentioned a while back that they placed my Flooded Dungeon map under a town's well. Perhaps this little village's well pulls water directly from some of the dungeon's standing water and people drinking it have started getting sick. Sounds like a job for some capable adventurers, huh?

I hope you guys like this one, next week I might be doing something a little different, maybe something not from the poll, so stay tuned!

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