Sunday, January 26, 2020

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: "Museum" [RPG]

I've played or GM'd on the Museum flip-mat a surprising number of times in PFS and SFS.  It's been the Blakros Museum in Absalom, the Museum of Natural Philosophy and History in Azir, a garden outside a tavern in Axis, a manor house, and at least one or two other things--Paizo scenario writers really like this flip-mat!  But I have to admit, it's a really handsome and well-designed mat.  Although a double-sided map, it cleverly contains three floors of exhibits, paintings, statues, a curator's workshop, an outdoor garden (complete with benches and a fountain!), latrines, a lecture hall, a cool room of taxidermied animals and monsters, and more.  The interior rooms are diverse and well-detailed, with plenty of room for all sorts of encounters; but I appreciate there's just enough exterior to handle encounters breaking in (or spilling out) of the museum.  The gridlines are clear but not distracting, and it of course features Paizo's patented formula of allowing pretty much any sort of marker to work.  This is a flip-mat you're bound to get a *lot* of use out of in organised play, or in any urban-focused homebrew game.  The only tiny caveat I'll mention is that the layout of the museum isn't 100% consistent with that of the Blakros Museum in some early PFS scenarios, so you may need to make some adjustments.  With that detail to one side, this is a sure-fire winner.

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