Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for a number of shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. 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.
This is our tenth shop on the street, just south of Hammerhead Loans and across the street from the Riddle of Steel.
This shop is run by a surprisingly young vendor considering the name and the stereotype of elder women as the collectors and masters of herbs and poultices. The vendor generally remains in the structure – coming out if strictly necessary, but otherwise only seen in the mornings and evenings as they string up low value herbs outside the shop to attract business (and to try to overwhelm the stink of Red’s Leatherworks).
The shop itself is closed for two and sometimes three days a week as the owner heads to the docks to acquire herbs from distant lands and then to head out of the city to hunt for the mainstays of their business.
While the ground floor looks very tight on the map, it doesn’t really do justice to walking in the door and finding yourself in a single room with herbs hanging from nearly every inch of available surface – the beams overhead, nails in the walls, string running from nail to nail, and so on. Ensconced in all these herbs is a wood stove and two chairs – one where the owner sits and one for customers to explain what they need (and preferably give the full backstory over a cup of strange tea).
A trap door leads down to the basement where herbs that are more effective when not fully dried are kept, again hanging from every possible location including off the ladder. Upstairs is a tiny two-room apartment divided by a curtain where the proprietor lives.
The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 6,300 x 4,800 pixels (21 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 1,470 x 1,120 pixels.
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