Monday, June 4, 2018

Pathfinder Map Pack: Starship Chambers [RPG]

Starship Chambers is an interesting Pathfinder Map Pack.  Released back in 2014, long before Starfinder was a thing, the map pack was designed much more around an "ancient, crashed starship discovered by fantasy adventurers" aesthetic (influenced by the Iron Gods Pathfinder AP).  By this, I mean that the starship chambers are intentionally dimly lit, dirty, and full of wrecked equipment.  The 18 5x8' tiles can be combined to make a starship bridge, crew quarters, med bay, cargo hold, and a couple of other chambers that I don't immediately recognize.  The chambers have a lot of nice detail--rust stains, exposed wiring, debris on the ground, etc.  I also appreciate how each chamber has connections to the corridor sections.  In regards to the several corridor sections (the packaging calls the "maintenance catwalks") though, again showing the original design, they and some of the other tiles contain trees next to them as if explorers stumbled over the ship in the forest.

All in all, there's nothing wrong with the concept of Starship Chambers as long as you're expecting Warhammer 40k "grim and gritty" starship chambers as opposed to Star Trek style "sleek and gleaming" architecture.  The map pack is done in the same style as another one, Starship Corridors, so they're a natural pairing.

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