I was poking around the other day and came across this post on a site called From the Sorcerer's Skull, which was new to me. It had two cool maps, on of Tombstone and one of Deadwood. The Tombstone map is from a book and very accurately depicts the town at the time, but the Deadwood map was more of thing of art. It is a very beautiful black and white illustration that sparks the imagination.
I was at school with some time to kill so I started messing around with the map, giving it some color and a parchmenty feel. Once I was finished I couldn't help but think that this map would be great for my upcoming Aces & Eights campaign.
However, since the campaign will be taking place in New Mexico primarily I doubt they will ever get up that way. Then I figured with a little work I could "file the serial numbers off" the map and re-tittle and re-label it for my own purposes. I thought I'd share the blank edited version in case anyone else was similarly inclined. Please note that I don't own this map. As I said above, I didn't make it. So I can't give you permission to use it for X, Y, or Z project. 
A big thanks to Trey over at From the Sorcerer's Skull for sharing!
Aces & Eights must be on everyone's mind. I'm starting to work my way through the material again with the hopes of running something soon.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for post. I love this old map. I was there when I was a kid and it is so much different now from the pictures I have seen. If you pu the modern Y shape layout of Deadwood against this map you can see it all fall into place.
A real find!!!
Mike
The Deadwood map is from the HBO show, it's not a real Deadwood map. It's HBO property, my guy
ReplyDeleteYou can tell since it literally has the names of the characters in it - Doc Cochran, Alma, those aren't real people. It's also modeled after the ranch in California it was filmed in
ReplyDeleteI love how creative this map is and think its potential uses are endless.
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