UPDATE, October 2022: After thinking I ran out in 2020, I've found a whole box of Ravenloft prints I thought didn't exist! Available while supplies last. (They were slightly exaggerating when they told me about the room of 1,000 wights.) This long scroll-type map is a great addition to any gaming room or haunt of vampires. I never actually played this adventure as a kid, but the other kids in elementary school made up lots of stories about how dangerous it was.
Terrifying deathtraps, life-stealing ghosts, crawling zombies and evil witches all stand between the brave (and/or foolish) adventurers and their goal: to defeat the vampire master of the castle, Baron Strahd von Zarovich! To add a screenshot with your feedback, follow the instructions. The Combat and Tactics supplement for late-cycle AD&D 2nd Edition, part of the books that are sometimes called "AD&D 2.5e", was the one that started explicitly tracking squares, started using 5-foot squares instead of 10-foot squares, and reduced the combat round to 10-15 seconds rather than 1 minute segments.Gothic horror meets Dungeons & Dragons in Tracy & Laura Hickman's "Ravenloft"! The original 1983 adventure that was later expanded into an entire campaign setting/sub-dimension, "Ravenloft" (now available in PDF from D&D Classics) is one of the most complicated and deadly dungeons ever. I'd also like to note that it wasn't exactly 3rd Edition that caused the shift in scale.
This was also important because then you could convert 1 inch of movement into 10 yards while out in the wilderness, compared to 10 feet while inside a dungeon.Īlso, there was the temporal component to consider: because the smallest representation of time, which was the combat round, was 1 minute long, you sort of had to have larger squares because you didn't need the fine-grained granularity of 5-foot-squares if the lengths of time assumed to happen within that round was so long (1 minute) in the first place.Īs for how many persons would fit in a square, older D&D editions suggested that you could have two, or as many as three, man-sized humanoids fit across a 10-foot corridor. You had 10-foot squares because of that 10:1 scale conversion. The older books used to tell you to measure out movement in terms of inches, with 1 inch of movement representing 10 feet of simulated in-game dungeon. CASTLE RAVENLOFT - ANIMATED BATTLEMAPS - YouTube SPOILER ALERT Players beware Defying the dark forces, I bring you the castle of all castles, the one and only, the mysterious, creepy. The 5e adventure uses the old maps for the original adventure back in the 1980's.Īt that time, the squares of maps were 10 foot:ĭ&D had its roots in wargaming.
These maps were created for the Roll20 module by Kristin Carlson. You could either use them as-is (and lose the feeling that the castle is big, or redraw the maps splitting each square into four. 8 full color top-down maps, following the layout of Castle Ravenloft from Curse of Strahd.
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