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A piece of a map from the Michael Curtis penned "Android Underlords" This is just the top corner of a full page of random cool and weird areas between decks.
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This looks great...a mini adventure in every single room!
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Agreed. Doug's maps are always fantastic! (One of my "secret GM tricks" when I run a DCC game at the store is to print off one of Doug's maps and key my own encounters for it. I get to use the same coolness over again, plus if someone buys the module they don't feel like they've played the adventure already. Win-win.)
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Cool. It has been my thinking from the beginning of DCC that an agile minded Dungeon Master can use the maps in each adventure for more than their original purposes.
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The key is that the maps evoke creativity. They are so full of neat images, etc, which makes them far superior to traditional maps which tend to be very generic. I can look at a room and think "say, what could this be?" and then fill it with something.
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Is this from the Android Overlords adventure from the MA Kickstarter?
To defend: This is the Pact.
But when life loses its value,
and is taken for naught -
then the Pact is to Avenge.
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Yes. Android Underlords.
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Now being offered with 100% more theremin music!
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Ogrepuppy wrote:Now being offered with 100% more theremin music!
Which reminds me, I need to get my theremin prescription refilled...
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GnomeBoy wrote:
Ogrepuppy wrote:Now being offered with 100% more theremin music!
Which reminds me, I need to get my theremin prescription refilled...
Ask your doctor if theremin is right for you. :)
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Guest wrote:
GnomeBoy wrote:
Ogrepuppy wrote:Now being offered with 100% more theremin music!
Which reminds me, I need to get my theremin prescription refilled...
Ask your doctor if theremin is right for you. :)
It is. I can now throw a tire through a football.

:wink:
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GnomeBoy wrote:
Guest wrote:
GnomeBoy wrote: Which reminds me, I need to get my theremin prescription refilled...
Ask your doctor if theremin is right for you. :)
It is. I can now throw a tire through a football.

:wink:
OK roll 3d6 against your dexterity score, and we'll see how much the football liked that happening. <rattles dice>

Oh dear, the football appears to be brandishing several small tentacles some of which are holding small gun-shaped devices,

To quote a certain game designer "what to do...what to do..."

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OttawaTom wrote:OK roll 3d6 against your dexterity score, and we'll see how much the football liked that happening. <rattles dice>

Oh dear, the football appears to be brandishing several small tentacles some of which are holding small gun-shaped devices,

To quote a certain game designer "what to do...what to do..."

PS - Finally corporeal at last!
I endorse this comment. With MeowMeowBeenz.
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Joe Goodman posted the whole map here if you haven't seen it yet :

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14 ... sts?page=7
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