Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Tavern

This is my first purchase of a Pathfinder Flip-Mat product. I needed a tavern/inn for a campaign that I'm planning for my Dungeons & Dragons group, and I had been weighing several of the taverns featured in the Pathfinder Flip-Mats lineup. Ultimately, I took a chance on this Bigger Tavern despite not having any idea what I was going to receive. Happily, this map fulfills all of my immediate requirements plus has some unexpected versatility.This is a nice sized map - 27" x 39" - on heavy paper stock (just short of card stock, really). The map is ruled with a 1" grid. On one side, a tavern with three other buildings surrounds a courtyard with a well. The entrance lies off a dirt track leading to a nearby road (not depicted). There is a double wooden gate and a small gatekeeper's room - a nice touch - securing the courtyard. Across from the gate is a large stable. Next to it is a smithy. Across the yard from the stable is the tavern proper connected to another building filled with various accommodations for guests. One side of the map depicts everything from a bird's-eye perspective with roofs. The flip side of the map mirrors the layout with the interiors portrayed.Color: Everything except for the strip of ground around the perimeter of the buildings is painted in shades of brown and tan. Reds, greens, and blues are used for rugs and other furnishings. The palette gives a definite country side tone to this layout.Stable: The stable measures 85' x 35' in D & D scale. Two-thirds of this building is the stable proper, with a row of stalls on one side, a hay-pile in the center, and two 10' wide entrances. The other section is a room with a long table adjoined by a narrow room with three beds. This could be used as a guest accommodation or the living area of the farrier/blacksmith whose smithy is located next door.Smithy: This 25' x 30' building has what seems like a circular central fire-pit. Against the back wall is the forge connected to a large bellows. An anvil and tables with smithing tools and accoutrements completes this feature.Tavern: The centerpiece, figuratively, of this complex is a generous 120' x 45' scale rectangular bar. A kitchen and the back bar area are added on one end. Five long tables with two benches per side and six square tables with four wooden chairs each allows your party to carouse with a sizable group of NPC merry-makers (48 by my count at one creature per grid square). There aren't any alcoves or booths allowing for shady deals and rumors to be whispered among patrons, but there is a 20' x 20' private room connected by a door to this common area where such intrigues can take place. The level of thought given to the details is evidenced by the flooring. Wooden planks cover the aleroom except along the wall where two fireplaces glow. There, stone flagging is portrayed. Likewise in the kitchen, the portion with the fireplace and where barrels and crates of foodstuffs sit has stone flooring. All the tables and the bar have tankards, goblets, and platters scattered over them. A well upholstered chair sits in front of one fireplace, a fitting seat in which a haughty noble or rich merchant can relax while thieves or assassins target them.Guestrooms: A variety of rooms offer weary adventurers a place to restore hit points and spell slots for varying amounts of coin. At one end of this building, which is connected to the tavern by the private room mentioned previously, is a communal dormitory room with eight beds packed cheek-by-jowl. Eight other rooms containing either one or two double beds offer more privacy and comfort. At the far end is a suite of three bedrooms plus one more large bedroom. The suite could be the most luxurious accommodation offered or act as the tavern keeper's living area. Chests, wardrobes, and sidetables with chairs are added to all of these lodging areas.Details: As mentioned earlier, care was put into the addition of little details throughout this set of buildings. Cloak racks line the wall beside the tavern door, some walls in the rooms and corridors of the lodging building have what could be interpreted as mirrors or paintings, firewood sits beside the hearths - there's even a small herb and vegetable garden in one corner of the courtyard. Doors and windows are clearly depicted, and trees conveniently spread their branches near the perimeter fence connecting the buildings, giving rogues and spies avenues of approach. As another reviewer of a different Pathfinder tavern map pointed out, though, the publishers missed an opportunity when they left out a privy. One corner of the yard has a perfect 10' x 15' area where a communal latrine could neatly fit, providing additional encounter opportunities for crafty DMs.Summary: I purchased this map to use in an urban adventure setting. As such, I will have to ask my players to willingly suspend disbelief regarding the grassy surroundings to this set of buildings and picture them surrounded by muddy alleys and cobble-stoned streets. However, this map will serve perfectly as a small block of buildings in my slum quarter. The tavern can readily exist as an alehouse operating next to tenements and small business establishments. The visual appeal and game-ready grid makes this map a valuable time-saver for me. When I finally have my party of stalwart adventurers travel out into the countryside, I'll have a perfect way-station ready to slake their thirsts and lighten their purses. 100% satisfied.

I have purchased about 20 of the Pathfinder Map Packs and Flip Mats. They are all very high quality. The paper that they are printed on is incredibly thick and rugged. We play D&D on our yacht while sailing around the Caribbean and even in the hot humid environment these look like they will last for years. We are very pleased with these maps, they are a real benefit to our games and make my job as DM so much easier. We have a printer on board so could download (or create from scratch) and print our own maps, but why bother. These maps are such a great quality that it would be a waste of my time to try and do it myself.I will be purchasing (many) more.The Bigger Tavern is 9" longer than most Pathfinder Flip Mats. One side is an exterior view while the other side shows interior view of a large tavern (50'x70') with a stable (35'x60'), a 12 room Inn (40'x100'), and more. This is not your typical roadside inn, this is a major stopping point along a well traveled highway.

Great product, good graphics and good quality. Much better with detail than I can draw using dry erase.

Like most pathfinder flip mats, this one is beautiful, with intricate details and well developed terrain. My issue with it is that I dislike maps with roofed buildings. I find them difficult to utilize unless the party is doing something outdoors, which is just as easy to do with the open roofed side. Another tavern on the reverse side would have made this a 5 star map in a heartbeat.

Very good!

HUUUUGE Tavern! One side shows the buildings with the roofs on, the other side is a cutaway with roofs off showing the interior. This tavern is really a mini complex with a stable and blacksmith buildings as well. Why only four stars? There is no outhouse or bathroom anywhere despite having bed space for a couple dozen people not to mention the huge bar area. If anyone from Paizo reads these reviews, please remember the potty area, it's a great place to ambush someone, especially if the usually wear armor!

awesome

why did they only have one page be a couple of inches long? why bother folding for that little section? make each fold worth it, make that last section full size or cut if off

Used it three times already, and helped the players really feel as if they were in the campaign world, on the road between cities.Great map, great details, and very rugged.

Has been used for several D&D sessions

Toute la gamme des flip-mat est pratique et de bonne qualité pouvant assurer de nombreuses parties. Il suffit juste d'avoir de bonnes figurines et des feutres nettoyables à sec.

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