So, this was another project spurred by something said on Twitter. Two nights ago Jerry LeNeave (@DreadGazeebo) asked the following via Twitter…

Anyone know where I can find a nice high-res copy / fan-recreated map of the Caves of Chaos (aka B2 KotB). The 20+ year old scan is meh #dnd

Well, I had been looking at the map myself recently and decided to do a quick check via Google – see if I couldn’t link him to something. At a glance I couldn’t find anything and I thought… maybe I should make one!

Last night I started, and tonight I finished (I spent about 8-9 hours on it). Some quick numbers: It is high res (300dpi), 17″ wide by 11″ tall (5100 pixels wide by 3300 tall). The Photoshop .PSD file is about 760 megs and has somewhere around 400 layers. The full-sized higres JPG itself is almost 17 megs.

I want to thank @chattydm, @eldritchreverie, and @merricb for glancing over it really quick a bit ago. It’s nice to have a fresh set of eyes to make sure there is nothing glaringly obvious that I overlooked.

Download Options

Please feel free to download this and use it as you wish (even print it) I would just ask you keep credit to me in the image, and point people to this page to download it (as opposed to linking directly to an image). Each size has 2 options. The first is the regular version, the second (“No Trees”) has had the tree overlay removed, incase they get in your way.

Great for gaming use…

Large – (JPG, 479kb – slightly reduced quality – 1200×776)
Large, No Trees – (JPG, 454kb – slightly reduced quality – 1200×776)
Large, “Player” Version* – (JPG, 445kb – slightly reduced quality – 1200×776)

Good for printing…

HiRes – (JPG, 4.2mb – full quality – 2500×1618)
HiRes, No Trees – (JPG, 4.2mb – full quality – 2500×1618)
HiRes, “Player” Version* – (JPG, 4.1mb – full quality – 2500×1618)

And finally, this one is overkill unless you intend on printing it poster size, but here it is…

Full – (JPG, 16.8mb – full quality – 5100×3300)
Full, No Trees – (JPG, 16.9mb – full quality – 5100×3300)
Full, “Player” Version* – (JPG, 16.9mb – full quality – 5100×3300)

*The “Player” version of the map has no trees, secret doors, secret rooms, traps or room numbers.

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I have received a few PM’s recently over at EN World regarding the location of my Fate Point Cards. As it turns out, they were never moved over here and so they were very difficult to find. Recently, a forum thread was even created to try and hunt them down. I figured I should resolve the issue, so here they are! The write-up that follows is something I wrote at EN World over a year ago…

I have been asked by a few people for more information about the Fate Point Cards we use in my campaign, so I thought I would drop them in here with some information.

Preview of the card

First of all, the idea to use Fate Points in a 4e (or any D&D edition) game was not my idea. In fact, I was not aware of Fate’s Aspect system until I read the idea of bringing it over to D&D a while back (was mid 2009 I think).

Anyway, the idea of the rules as we use them were developed by other people (I think most of it we were discussing was on RPGnet) and went as follows (I am going to make the assumption that everyone is somewhat familiar with Aspects from SoTC – if not, just ask)…

Characters in the Heroic Tier choose 3 Aspects. You get another in Paragon, and one more in Epic for a total of 5 at that point.

You gain Fate Points (1 at a time) from the DM based on roleplaying your character well based on his/her Aspects. A Fate Point can be used a number of different ways. Here is a screenshot of one to give you the idea…

So, the first few are pretty straight forward – you get bonuses to hit. The cool thing about these is that FP’s can be used as a Free Action so you can use it after a roll – and in fact, I allow the PC to ask (after missing) “would a +2 from my FP hit?” and I will answer them yes/no so they can decide whether or not to use it.

Recharge an Encounter or a Daily Power (though Daily requires 2 fate points).

Recharge a Healing surge, pretty straight forward.

Make a decoration is a fun one and basically covers any other thing you may want to try and use a FP for. I gave en example in another post of a game where I was playing a goblin rogue (with a DM who also uses this same system). We broke out of the basement of an Inn and needed to flee/hide somewhere – so I pulled up the FP card and said, “I want to take the group to my hideout” at which point he said, “ok, you head there” and took the card. I didn’t have a hideout, we had never talked about it etc but it allows you to add something the game/setting as a player in much the same way a DM could.

Finally you have Resist an aspect compulsion. So you have an Aspect called “Greedy”… and enter a room with gold on the table… the DM could hold a Fate Point in front of you and say, “that’s a lot of gold, and no one is looking… you really want to take it”… the player knows he can either take the gold (and the Fate Point) or instead say, “no, I don’t want to risk it right now” at which point he hands the DM one of his own Fate Points, thus resisting the aspect compulsion.

Anyway, that’s the quick rundown of it for those interested.

Download the sheet of 9 Fate Point Cards here [PDF]

And here they are in black and white [PDF]

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I think @theweem should make a forum signature image “Veteran of the Edition Wars” -both sides can use it! #dnd #pathfinder #haha

…so, here we go. Three versions…

One on on white (jpg)…

White background

One on black (jpg)…

Black background

And one transparent (png)…

Transparent background

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The changes…

• Updated to reflect the “Essentials” RULES COMPENDIUM information!
• Added the regularly requested “Grabbed” AND the new “Removed From Play” card (replacing the two Ongoing Damage cards on page 2)
• NEW 3rd page containing 9 Ongoing Damage cards (use markers to indicate damage, or write in your own!)

Download links are located under the following screenshot…

Preview Pages 1, 2 and 3

Download Page 1 [PDF] – (Dominated, Stunned, Dazed, Weakened, Blinded, Prone, Immobilized, Slowed, Marked)

Download Page 2 [PDF] – (Dying, Unconscious, Helpless, Surprised, Petrified, Restrained, Deafened, Grabbed, Removed From Play)

Download Page 3 [PDF] – (9 Ongoing Damage Cards)

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Check out the screenshot below to see what mine looks like, and click here to download the sheet (500kb PDF).

Gamma World Character Sheet Screenshot

The Gamma World character sheet has a few words for each section as an aid. My assumption is that you will have an understanding of those sections so I did not include them. The game uses a much more simplified version of 4e rules mechanics so some of this will look familiar to 4e players, and some of it will be new.

Enjoy!

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If you would use a blank card template, what format would you prefer to get it in? Some options include a) simply a high res JPEG or b) a .PSD (Photoshop) file allowing for some tweaking of the look of the card.

The idea I am having is that I could create a “set” of cards. For example, I might make a set called “Standard”. This set might consist of 4 sheets. Each sheet would have a 3×3 layout of cards and be themed based on something like a color.

So, one day I might release a “Standard” set that has 4 Sheets with 9 cards on each sheet. Sheet #1 would be “red”, Sheet #2 would be “blue”, etc. In fact, I even created an example for you to checkout – a “Standard Red” sheet…

This is a 3.30mb JPEG (2,550 x 3,300 pixels @ 300 DPI)…

3.30mb Hi-Res JPEG Red Card Template

Again, I am curious about the formatting you might prefer when it comes to getting a card template such as this.

Please let me know here via a comment, or on Twitter, or email me – any and all feedback is appreciated!

Thanks!

Quest Card Preview

These cards are easy to fill out with basic information and hand off to your players (or your players can fill them out), helping them keep track of various quests they are working on or have completed. Alternatively, you can fill them out and hang on to them yourself (as a DM) to help organize said quests.

Though these were made with 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons in mind, they can be used for any system or setting!

There are 9 cards per sheet, and they are the same size as 4th Edition D&D power cards!

Download Weem’s Quest Cards [PDF]

Anyway, they are more than welcome to use it in any way they see fit if they want to, I just thought I would share it for fun. They didn’t ask me to do anything, they just happened to get picked for my experimentation

You can listen to it here.

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Weem's Combat Sheet

Do you ever play in a game, only to realize later that you forgot you could have done a number of things during a combat encounter? I know I have, so I made the Combat Sheet for 4th Editions Dungeons and Dragons. Essentially, I write out what my powers DO because that is what is really important… the name of the power is not. The way the sheet is laid out, the information is organized into sections depending on the situation you are in – whether you are attacking, or defending.

Preview: Weem’s 4e D&D Combat Page (not an exact representation of the PDF, which has been updated numerously with tiny changes here and there)

Download: Weem’s 4e D&D Combat Sheet [PDF]

The Temple, by weem

This is a very simple map of a temple I made and posted over at EN World. It might have been part of a tutorial, but I don’t recall, anyway I hope you can find some use for it! Click on the map to get the full version.