RHoD - Ruins of Rhest - SPOILERS

[klofft]

Need some help. In the Ruins of Rhest, there is a map for the small keep, but there is none for the bell tower. The description of the bell tower isn't explicit at all re: its size. Am I missing something? Or should I just wing that fight (largely ranged combat anyway) without a battle map?

 

[Abisashi]

Need some help. In the Ruins of Rhest, there is a map for the small keep, but there is none for the bell tower. The description of the bell tower isn't explicit at all re: its size. Am I missing something? Or should I just wing that fight (largely ranged combat anyway) without a battle map?

I just free-handed something. Four walls with a walkway around it for the first floor, with 2 double-doors (windows, actually) on opposite sides; second floor, same shape with a hole in the middle where the bell hangs. A flight of stairs between them. I think the building was 20' x 20'. I have no idea if this was realistic, but it seemed reasonable to me.

I ignored the advice about giving the PCs the cover of the weather, and those archers ended up doing a large amount of damage.

 

[Thomas Percy]

Bell tower can be very cinematic place for combat. Ti's like a chimney with partially fallen stairs atached to the walls and dark deep abyss in the middle. There can be even ropes left from old bells to make "ziiiiip" over the abyss.

As far as I remember, there is a grid of belltower in "Speakers in Dreams" WotC adventure, but I'm not sure.

 

[Echohawk]

This thread might help you.

 

[klofft]

Wow! Those maps totally rocked! Thanks a lot for the link! And thanks to the original producers of the maps!