Tenkar's Tavern: Kickstarter - The S'rulyan Vault (Fantasy Map)

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Kickstarter - The S'rulyan Vault (Fantasy Map)

+Venger Satanis has a new Kickstarter project, and it's not what you'd expect.

This time, it's all about the maps.

+MonkeyBlood Design 's +Glynn Seal is doing the maps for The S'rulyan Vault, and the work in progress (shown above) looks damn good.

The project is for PDF copies of the map to be printed out locally by the backers at 34" x 44" (if desired) as well as a PDF of tables to flesh out the adventure.

For me, I'd use the maps in Roll20.

You want to know the real bell ringer? There's only one level of support: 5 Bucks.

Maybe that wasn't big enough. Its 5 Bucks to back!

Go back it. You know you want to.

7 comments:

AugustApril 9, 2016 at 4:53 PM
That's an impressive way to KS. One pledge level; no muss, no fuss.
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Allan BApril 9, 2016 at 5:34 PM
Backed, Love the old blue maps.
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Doc SavageApril 9, 2016 at 6:05 PM
Maps for what?
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Venger SatanisApril 9, 2016 at 8:00 PM
It's for a mega-dungeon. 4 quadrants arranged separately or combined to create one big mega-map! There will be dropbox PDF files for everything once the KS is completed.

Thanks for the shout-out, hoss!
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UnknownApril 9, 2016 at 10:01 PM
Interesting for Fantasy Grounds as well.
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KnighterrantApril 10, 2016 at 11:59 PM
Price of a cup of coffee for some really good looking maps? Yeah I'm in:D
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UnknownApril 11, 2016 at 2:55 PM
I love his stuff and this one seems like a no brainer for the cost involved. Let's hope it gets to 2 or 3 grand level...
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Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

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I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

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Kickstarter - The S'rulyan Vault (Fantasy Map)

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