Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Pathfinder Flip-Mat: "Giant Lairs" [RPG]


I haven't used Giant Lairs much, but it did come in handy during a certain portion of Rise of the Runelords.  One side of the map is the interior of a giant keep, complete with massive chairs (2x2), beds (3x2), and tables (8x2)!  In Pathfinder terms, it's sized appropriately for Large-size creatures (ogres, hill giants, etc.) but would still be too small for Huge and bigger creatures.  Still, it appropriately puts things in perspective for PCs who dare intrude.  The layout is done well, with a massive meeting hall, a common sleeping room, a king or queen's quarters, etc.  I'm less impressed with the other side, which depicts what I guess is an outdoors camp in the wilderness and a cave leading into a hillside where goods are stored.  The exterior part of the camp is pretty much just boulders and trees like in a dozen other flip-mats, and there's not much particularly "giant" in the cave portion.  The sheer size of giants come alive when we see "normal" things (furniture, doorways, etc.) sized for them, so I would much rather have had another building interior--lots of variations and possibilities could easily be imagined.

One good side and one meh side leads to a "shrug" evaluation--if you plan on having a lot of giants as enemies in a campaign, this could be useful (but it's not essential).

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