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The Crumbling Gate
🕑 Added 2025-01-17 16:49:55 +0000 UTCThe old ruins between Redwick Bush and Mournstead would be completely unnotable and irrelevant except that the farmers’ path between the towns passes right through them.
Besides the crumbling wall and gate through it, the main element of the ruins are the three towers – two are reduced nearly down to their foundations, while the largest crumbling stone structure looms over the wall as if it were to fall upon the path at any moment. While the smaller towers had long-rotted away wooden floors between the levels, the larger tower had stone floors and a heavily reinforced stairwell that has kept it standing far longer than the rest of the ruins.
To adventurers walking along the path, this is almost the perfect setup for an ambush, and many will be unwilling to cross through the gate, instead looking for another way around. The ruins are easily avoided on foot, but navigating a wagon or cart through the rough lands around the ruins will be difficult and potentially damaging. Fortunately, this road is well travelled, so really… what are the odds that some group of monsters or bandits have moved in? Or worse, some bandit monsters?
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 13,200 x 10,200 pixels (44 x 34 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10‘ squares) – so resizing the image to 3,080 x 2,380 pixels or 6,160 x 4,760 pixels, respectively.
https://dysonlogos.blog/2025/01/17/crumbling-gate/
Comments
Mark CMG Clover
Excellent!
