"Go, make the bath hot and scrub my niece. Scrub her clean. I'll make a dainty meal of her." - from "Baba Yaga" in Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome (1916)
Hey everyone, and happy New Release Monday! Today, I am launching my updated version of the Berez area map! I re-created this map from the book about five years ago and wanted to update it.
I'm not calling it a "hex" crawl as I kept the square grid from the book, but I did decrease the square size from 100ft to 50ft each. In total, the 60x80 area represents a total space of 3000ft. by 4000ft.
A few other design notes on this map:
I did not include a "Warm" color mood as I didn't think it was fitting for a swamp / marsh area. Instead, I'm introducing a new color mood called "Murky" which creates a more deeper green & wild feel to it
I also did not include Baba's Hut on the area map or the scarecrows for a few reasons. 1) She's mobile so technically her hut would be moving around the area instead of a fixed position and 2) I would love to use my updated Baba's Hut for this but I've not yet created it. Once I create my updated Baba's Hut map, I'll make her hut into a token you can use to move around this map with
Lastly, since I personally run Berez as a wild, overgrown swamp with tall trees creating a dense canopy, I created the "Swamp" Version. However, canonically, Berez is described as more of a Dead Marshland area, so I created both versions. Additionally, I created the version from Reloaded which includes a massive wall of thorny brambles encasing the former town of Berez that the players go through before meeting up w/ Baba.
There are three core versions of this map:
Marsh: A dead marshland with tall grass and pools of stagnant water
Swamp: An overgrown wild swamp with tons of trees
Reloaded: (Based on the Marsh version) This is from CoS: Reloaded and described in Arc I (Which you can find here).
The Swamp Version features packed trees and murky water. Danger lurks around every corner!
Inspired by the Dead Marshes from The Lord of the Rings, I wanted this version to feel dead, barren, and void of any happiness.
In the Reloaded version, Baba has erected a massive thorny wall of brambles all around the former town of Berez to lure your party into her grasp. With no escape, the party must go from area to area where Baba will torment them as they make their way to her Tiny Hut.
Click the download link below for your tier to download all the map files.
Public Download
The Foundry / Champion Tier Download
The Foundry / Champion Tier Printable PDFs Download
The Grand Library Tier Download
The Grand Library Tier Printable PDFs Download
The Great Hall Tier Download
I hope you enjoy this updated version of my Berez Area map! I have some exciting plans for creating a TON of Berez maps, and I'll do them in a similar style where I create a Swamp, Marsh, and a Relaoded variant so you can run Berez in very different ways in your own session.
Thank you all for your KILLER support of my work and for making this all possible! I'm so very grateful for you all.
Cheers friends,
DM Andy
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