Backdrops (Penumbra/D20) Paperback

Backdrops presents a collection of ready-to-use locations for your D20 System fantasy campaign. Each location is detailed in a two-page spread, including a scale map, descriptive text, and related new D20 material from traps to special combat rules. All maps are gridded with 1 square equals 5 feet, and include an enlargement legend so you can use a photocopier to scale them up for miniatures use. Backdrops features fourteen locations, including:
* The bath house is a place of whispers, threats, lies, and scheming. Beneath its tranquility it is a tense scene, where enemies face each other without swords or shields.
* An urban stable breeds noble horses in which the wisdom of ancient tribal kings is scattered as a blessed reincarnation.
* In the secret smithy, three burning golden dwarves arrive from within the forge at the stroke of midnight to craft wondrous items.
* Small, fortified caravanserai offers protection and company to travelers and traders ... though bandits know that the most valuable thing in any caravanserai is the caravan visiting it.
* Narrow alleyways wind like veins through the city ... but only three sorts of souls walk these streets at night: lantern-bearing guards, cutthroats, and the undead.
* Plus a bazaar, athenaeum, ship, wharf, toll bridge, temple, tavern, merchants' district and city dungeon.
Link the sets to detail a single city, or scatter them across your campaign world. Use them as a foundation for more exotic travails for your PCs, or to fill in the dark corners of your characters' hometown. It's your game, after all. Backdrops just gives you more time to play it!