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Yawning Portal Inn | 3rd Floor Map Pack!
🕑 Added 2025-04-25 03:33:05 +0000 UTCHey guys! It's finally done! ;)
Ever since creating the Yawning Portal Inn base map, I've had several people inquiring when I would have a 2nd floor and, finally, when I'd have the 3rd and final floor of the tavern.
Well -- that's TODAY!
The 3rd Floor of the Yawning Portal Inn was done in the same dimension as the 2nd Floor, which many of you may remember was 2x the dimensions of the 1st Floor due to a mental error while creating it, HOWEVER, people voted overwhelmingly for me to keep the 3rd Floor the same, larger dimension because it just makes for a better experience.
That means MORE rooms, LARGER spaces and an absolutely HUGE setting for your party to explore, meet groups, develop relationships, sell gear and more.
To download the Map Pack, please click on your Tier link below and the download URL will be listed there in map release order.
Tier 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/tier-1-dungeon-81146477
Tier 2 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/tier-2-world-map-81312503
Tier 3 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/tier-3-master-87793681
Tier 4 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/tier-4-master-87797001
Here is an illustrated scene by Manon Krapf, showing the bottom floor of the tavern and portions of the 2nd and 3rd floors -- we may do another version of this one soon:
Here's the new 3rd Floor map:
The 3rd Floor contains many new chambers and areas of play that should usher in some new faces, interesting options and useful resources. In developing this new floor, I wanted to expand a bit into the direction of higher fantasy, with stuffed creatures of the Underdark punctuating the hallways, factions renting and operating out of large sections of the rooms, services and resources to help adventurers become more successful, and even some additional forms of entertainment in the form of tracking and betting on the survival of parties delving into the deep dark.
Here are some of the new areas on the 3rd Floor:
Dark Delvings - This store front is comprised of two chambers, a selling room where PC's can attempt to sell off loot and treasure discovered below to the proprietor, and the actual store front where others can come to purchase from the available wares. Unlike the store on the 1st floor that features largely arms, armor and common equipment, this store's inventory has a high probability of changing over time.
Betting Pool - In the northeast section of the 3rd Floor is a large hearth, comfortable seating, a large metal gong and a side room lined with chairs about a table with folks tracking the progress of adventurers who have signed contracts to be tracked by the betting association. Wealthy merchants, traders and others gather in the comfortable seating to bet upon the adventurers and receive updates on their whereabouts, progress and/or demise.
Teleportation Gate - One of the more permanent residents of the 3rd Floor is a Warlock that operates an teleportation portal. Whether the portal is one-way or two-way is up to the agreement, coin and warlock, but adventurers that have a need to travel swiftly may hand over heft coin to utilize their services.
Shrine of Lathander - Since we had such a great Sprite for this map, I thought the Inn wouldn't be complete without a nice shrine to Mhaere's deity, opening the doors for some potential divine influence and services.
Scrying Pool - Similar to the teleportation portal, this local wizard offers use of his powerful scrying pool to gather intelligence, locate objects, individuals or even enemies. Potentially very useful before one goes descending in the deep!
Lending Services - A large section of the 3rd Floor is comprised of a lending business that makes contracts with adventurers for the purchase of manpower, goods, services and loans. Loan officers, guards and mercenaries are common here, where the leaders of this guild entertain visits at all hours.
Thematic Areas - A quick walk about the 3rd Floor would find you face to face with a handful of creatures that have been stuffed and placed as decorations, including a large section of a Purple Worm, a Displacer Beast, Basilisk and Manticore.
As with all of the more recent maps, we have a great sprite by Katsudon Art to pair along with the map of Mhaere Dryndilstann, an ex-adventurer, priest of Lathander and wife of the innkeeper, found somewhere within the tavern assisting adventurers where and when she can -- I hope you find the sprite and token useful!
It was a lot of fun to create and end to this chapter and create another layer of fun encounters, people and services to explore for your PC's.
I hope you enjoy it!
