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GM's Maps #20: Mansion 2

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Map-making can be time-consuming and sometimes frustrating for GMs, especially GMs with limited time to begin with. In our new 'GM's Maps' range, we will be providing a range of pre-made maps for you to use in your games.

Mansions, grand houses of the rich and famous, often steeped in history and dating back several centuries.

Mansions make excellent locals for both heist and horror scenarios as well as mysteries. Indeed Gothic horror literature and the mystery genre are almost synonymous with these grand homes. Don't let that stifle your creativity though, feel free to find novel or unusual ways to use the mansion map in other genres.

The mansion presented here is a large example of a type of mansion that would have been built from the early 18th century onwards in Britain, Europe or America.

This map is suitable for several styles of Mansion and is, in fact, based upon several that can be found in Cornwall. One such mansion which provided part of the inspiration for this map is the Cornish mansion of the Prince of Wales, although his is reportedly a 9 Bedroom Mansion and the servant's wing is only one storey high whereas the servant's wing in this product is depicted as two stories high.

Scenario Ideas
Large houses such as this are a staple of Gothic horror since they tend to have a long history they make ideal locals for ghost stories or other tales of Gothic horror.

Similarly, mansions often feature in detective and mystery fiction. We are all probably familiar with the inspector sent to investigate a murder at a mansion house during a social gathering or country retreat.

Fans of hiest drama should have no problem finding a use for a mansion map in a daring robbery style adventure. Perhaps the party seeks to steal a valuable painting from the wall or the lady of the manors jewels.

In espionage games the manor house may be the home of some nefarious agency or foil to the PCs who they seek to confront or perhaps they are out to put his house under surveillance, wiring it with listening devices or hidden cameras.

The house could make an interesting base of operations for a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. Certainly, a mansion house is not as secure as a castle but can post-apocalyptic beggars be choosers?

Mystery and horror may be the commonly accepted order of the day for places such as this, but don't shy away from letting your imagination run riot and finding ways to use the mansion in any genre of play you wish.

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Collin F July 25, 2021 8:55 pm UTC
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Not very detailed. Decently laid out. Missing key to 2nd floor rooms.
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