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The city of the eternal voice

Welcome to Crabwell, our fifth borough! We're so excited to bring you this mixture of medieval fantasy with bizarre magic. Those of you who love our maps are going to find tons of uses for this walled town, and those of you who dive into our lore are about to uncover a mysterious city with a central plot hook that you are absolutely going to want to include in your next campaign. Let's dive in!

Guide

Crabwell is a city whose history, laws, and architecture are all deeply intertwined. The city's underlying legal code is established by decree after decree echoing out from the city's central tower, a mysterious building from which an omniscient voice spouts new laws each evening. Everything about Crabwell centers on the (immortal?) Entac, who has led the city through thousands of years of ups and downs. We are particularly excited about this borough guide because we have a brand new layout, and it is gorgeous. Major props to Jelke for the lovely new design!

Maps

James has really outdone himself with this one. Crabwell is a city that you're going to want to include in every campaign: massive walls, a pleasant central square, and a calm canal are the highlights of the northwestern district. If you're a chief courier patron, you also have access to four floors of the city's signature tavern and the interior of the Omniphone. Plus, our variant for this map is the often requested "battle" version. The only thing better than a day in Crabwell is a dating fighting through a siege.

Music

Thus far, we really haven't given you too much genuine renaissance music, with fancy counterpoint and period-appropriate instrumentation. Well no more! "Hewn from Mythic Stone" is your certified classical banger. Harps, recorders, and bassoon strum away this thoughtful baroque melody. If you want to crank the refined vibes to 11, throw on the solo harpsichord variant! 

dScryb Integration

We've partnered with our good friends over at dScryb to bring Crabwell to life. dScryb is an award-winning publisher that provides Boxed Text—descriptive text of places, monsters, spells, items, characters, and other observations—meant to be read aloud by Gamemasters to players. Let dScryb’s team of talented writers and editors pore over every word of descriptive text, freeing your creative energy and time for all the other aspects of planning and running the perfect adventure. dScryb worked with our writer Will to concoct evocative and illustrative pieces of boxed text to help you GM Crabwell like a pro.

Plus, Borough Bound patrons get access to an EXCLUSIVE discount: 2 free weeks at dScryb's Hero tier. Click here for access to the super secret discount you can enter for your 14 day trial. Once you do, you can check out Crabwell in all of its dScryb glory here.

The Wand of Tactics | Collaboration with Tavern of Trinkets

Did you know that our very own layout designer Jelke also designs magic items for D&D 5e? Well, he does—or mostly—he did! Tavern of Trinkets was Jelke's 5e item Patreon where he made oodles of beautiful and cleverly designed items. The project is mostly defunct now, but he provided us with this awesome (and thematically relevant!) item for you all to use in your Crabwell adventures, the Wand of Tactics!

Wand of Tactics

Wand, uncommon

This wand has 7 charges. As an action, you can hold it in front of your mouth and speak a short telepathic message of twenty-five words or less to 1 or more creatures you can see or are familiar with within 600 feet of you. The wand expends 1 charge for every creature you relay the message to.

If the target is carrying a wand of tactics crafted using a branch from the same trees as yours, the range increases to anywhere on the same plane of existence and no charges are expended.

The wand regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn.

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Get this week's files below!

Delivery Kid

Crabwell 01 - The Omniphone - Delivery Kid Rewards 

General Messenger

Crabwell 01 - The Omniphone - General Messenger Rewards 

Chief Courier

Crabwell 01 - The Omniphone - Chief Courier Rewards 

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This week's map variations:

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Comments

Tuz-oh

Love the concept! I know this might seem contra to the concept, but since this town has a relative "vanilla" design, would it be possible for you to create a version of it that replaces the location of the Omniphone with an empty plaza? It would not have to be an entire new map, just a small PNG to place over the location of the tower. This would open up the usability for this map and make it setting agnostic.

Borough Bound

The current plan is to release 2 versions of the Definite Editions map to help out folks by removing the Omniphone. This release already has 16 map files plus interiors, so we just didn't want to overwhelm folks. with this one!

Mage

Once again, we are graced with a treat. I love the interiors, they look cozy!