Sunday, January 29, 2023

Starfinder Flip-Mat: "Dead World" [RPG]

The Dead World flip-mat features the usual advantages of Paizo flip-mats: wet & dry erase, 1-inch squares, and a good size.  

One side of the mat presents some city streets after some huge natural disaster or cataclysmic war.  There's an impressive amount of nicely-detailed destruction--several collapsed buildings, crashed ground vehicles, and debris scattered everywhere.  Interestingly, on a closer look, there are a couple of chambers actively being used as survival shelters (with lit campfires)--this might limit the use of this side a little depending on what the GM is trying to set up.

I've had a couple of opportunities to use the other side (in both a Starfinder Society scenario and as a dragon graveyard for a Pathfinder module) and I really like it.  It's a blasted, obviously toxic landscape complete with giant skeletons, chasms, poisonous gas, chemical pools, and more.  The description on the packaging labels this side "a planet inhabited by the undead", but apart from a few faintly visible skulls in the gas clouds, I don't necessarily see that element--but that's probably good, because it's more flexible without it.

Overall, I think this was a well-done mat, as lots of games could include a wasteland and a ruined city.

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