[PR] Great Aspeigh a detailed hamlet

[Terra_Ferax_Mark]

Great Aspeigh
A Detailed Hamlet
Zip archive containing a 53 page PDF; 1.9 MB
$3.00 at the RPGNow website

Welcome to Great Aspeigh . . .

. . or what's left of it. The hamlet is built on the ruins of a once proud city. Disaster has struck it several times, and although it's merely a hamlet now, adventurers have started coming to it to explore its ruins.

The hamlet has 43 keyed locations, fully detailed with NPCs and merchandise to buy. Below is a sample of what you will see in these 53 pages (some items were intentionally blurred out, but you can get an idea of the text format):

Here's what you get:

• 53-page PDF detailing 43 shops
• Rules for restocking merchandise in the shops
• A table of what can be encountered in the ruins (this is not an adventure itself, but a base for adventuring to occur from). An adventure that takes place beneath Great Aspeigh is
  Trouble Underfoot, a 29-page PDF for characters of levels 3-5 (also $3).
• An item index, indexing every item in every shop, so that if a player asks, "Where can I find..." you can find it.
• A NPC index, so you'll know where NPCs are by name.
• A Shop index, with shops and the people associated with them.
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  Below is a small map, the yellow areas are detailed and the white areas are exploration sites (you get this map plus a much larger map of the hamlet):
  
  
  
  
  Available for $3 at
  The RPGNow website

 

[annadobritt]

Have to get this one.

 

[Queen_of_Hearts]

Yes, this does look pretty cool.

 

[annadobritt]

I bought this yesterday and it's very good, so far. Love the lists of goods and prices.

 

[Terra_Ferax_Mark]

Anna,
Is there any chance I could use your quote at RPGNow or even better, would you be so kind as to post a review there?

Thanks.

 

[annadobritt]

No problem! Posted a review at RPGNow. Once I get the other things I purchased looked over, I'll post about them as well.

 

[annadobritt]

Anna,
Is there any chance I could use your quote at RPGNow or even better, would you be so kind as to post a review there?

Thanks.

Have you thought of offering the cc2 maps for downloading? This way a person could use the free viewer to print out the portions of the map they need.

 

[Terra_Ferax_Mark]

Actually, that was [edit] not [/edit] done with CC2. I have another program up my sleeve (or in my toolkit): Neopaint for windows.

Neopaint has a stamp function that allows you to create a neopaint stamp file (which is a .tif file with one color set to transparent). It's what I used before CC2 and keep coming back to it. The price is comparable to paintshop pro (which I also use)but with Neopaint, you can draw map elements (it's a paint program), save the stamp, and then place the elements on your map. It's very fast.

Think of it as a commercial "Dungeon Crafter" with no map size limit and no limit to the tile size, plus I believe they have all the U-Lead graphic functions. You can zoom, rotate, and most of the tools any decent paint program has. You can check out a 30-day trial at http://www.neosoftware.com/npw.html. There's a DOS version and a Windows version. Unless you're a DOS fan, you might stick with the windows version. I'm using the Windows version 4C.

So as for the map, the GIF files included in the zip archive are as close to what I have as you can get. No you, don't have the layers of CC2 or PSP, but it's fast to produce maps with.