A good idea, but what came to mind: You enter a small well lit cave. The walls have assorted moccasins, chopines, poulaines, and other footware spiked to them. A goblin in a colored shirt runs out and greets you in a croaking voice. “What can I help you with today?”
You continue down the vast hallway. You try not to make eye contact with a pair of kobolds near a tiny hut. Despite trying to ignore them the kobolds still approach you and speak “Hello traveler, do you wish to remove years from your life and return to the appearance of youth?”. They motion to the tiny hut with shelves lined with lotions, eye cream, and makeup.
What do you do?
The perfumers have arrived. You do not escape. They spray you with scents until you’re like a sad, wet dog.
If you hadn’t specified “and other footware”, I would’ve found myself in “Eric and The Dread Gazebo” territory.
Goblin says: we can arm wrestle for 10%. But I warn you, I am stronger than I look.
A group of pale, unhealthy humanoids approach. There are armed with Orange Julius and wearing JNCO jeans
Roll for initiative
I’m GMing Cyberpunk right now. Battlemaps are reskinned screenshots of Google Maps or floorplans of actual businesses.
I still burn tens of hours translating them into a gridded map, but still. It is sort of easier.
Using airport maps could give you really nice layouts too.
I’m making a campaign set in fantasy Vegas, so I took the floorplan of a casino and made it into a map of the city.
Aw man and those things are already designed to trap you.
Reminds me of Magic Maze, a boardgame in which player play a Barbarian, a Dwarf, an Elf and a Magician who lost all of their gear in battle and now resort to robbing a shopping mall so they can go on their next adventure.
Great game. I like that you aren’t generally allowed to talk, so everyone ends up with their own conflicting plans.
The TRPG “Troika!” has a module that is basically exactly this called “Get It At Sutlers”
It just generates a dungeon crawl contained entirely within a department store by the name of Sutlers
I also use public school maps, zoos, and amusement parks
Hell on earth, perfect
Sawgrass Mills. South Florida FTW
As someone who has walked around this mall many times, it may as well be a dungeon lmao
Thought that layout looked familiar. I’ve eaten there this year.
That mall map looks like a map of a later Doom 2 level. Monster closets everywhere!
It looks like a Pegasus or a stegosaurus
those are two very different things
