I was reading The Skinsaw Murders and discovered that I could make no sense of the stairs in Foxglove's townhouse (Map C).
Unless I'm missing something, in order for the stairs to make architectural sense, the walls around the stairs on the second floor have to be changed so that the floor spaces directly east of the stairs can be used. This would produce stairs similar to the ones in the Seven's Sawmill.
Am I correct, or is there something I am missing?
I'm looking at the pdf written for 3.5, if that matters.
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The stairs in the AP are all wrong. There are walls where there should not be. Check the layout in THIS map I made to see how it should look. The map is the first map I made IIRC, so don't judge it too harshly :)
Whoa, your map looks completely different from the one in the text! o: What did you use as a source?
Your comment inspired me to go back and look at the original printing and wow... it is different. I used the map printed in the Anniversary Edition, which also had some issues. The old map, however, wow. That was awful! Not only do the stairs not lineup, the layout just doesn't make any sense! Yikes! I hope this one works for you tho.
Oh I understand now! So for the Anniversary Edition, they completely redesigned the townhouse. I can totally see why because wow, this layout. This is what happens when you slap maps together at 4 in the morning, I guess.
Speaking of, I was searching around on the forum before making this thread to see what people had done with the townhouse, and discovered that someone had made a map similar to the one in the original edition, with a minor change in the stairs on the second floor that made them navigable. (Unfortunately looking at it again, the changes are incomplete and the walls on the third floor should still be changed and the stairs flipped around)
I wasn't sure if that map was sourced from some subsequent edition or if the maker made the changes themself.
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Ahhh thank you! I should add those maps to my list HERE . If you are looking for more RotRL maps you should check that post. It gathers up all the maps posted earlier in the thread. I suppose I missed Dom C's maps because they were in their own thread. There are likewise a few more maps later in the thread but they are primarily from later in the adventure. There are a few I made for places in Sandpoint such as Savah's Armory, and the Sandpoint Theater. There are also many excellent resources such as NPC lists, and handouts, and whatnot.