The Golden Fishmarket (Patreon)

This is the second shop in the new collection of small shops set along a single block based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover. As I draw these, I also have the overhead views drawn out on a map of the city block as I go, so when the series is complete you can use them on their own, or as a fully mapped out block of shops.

Sitting across Random Street from Rok’s Pottery Workshop, The Golden Fishmarket sells just about whatever fish-like things make it to the docks in the holds and nets of the many independent fisherfolk of the city.

The building itself is a two-story affair with a peaked roof – the ground floor being the fish market with the owners living upstairs. The small upstairs is awkward, with low sloped ceilings on the east and west sides. More interestingly, there is no door between the two floors, with stairs leading directly from the main fishmarket room downstairs into the common living / eating space of the apartment upstairs.

The ground floor is divided into three sections, four if you count the displays outside under the awnings on Random Street. The main area when walking down Market Street is the fish market proper, with a massive marble slap in the centre of the room where the prize catches are shown off (currently entirely covered by something that resembles but is definitely not quite a “fish” on this map). This area also has the staircase to the residence above. To the left of the market is where fish are prepped for sale, and the back room is for storage and holding special orders for preferred clients.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,300 x 4,800 pixels (31 x 16 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) – so resizing the image to 2,170 x 1,120 pixels.

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