All Aboard the Lightning Rail [5x14]

Zac Clay

Found it. Search for their "Train Station Platforms" pack and there's a little hyperlink at the end of the sentence "All patrons can get those assets here." Click the "here" and you'll get the engine car with a closed roof.

Jesse Marcus

Hi, new to the Patreon (awesome stuff!). I see you have a mix of cars that show their interiors and cars with closed roofs -- but it is there a version of the engine/control room car with a closed roof? I'd like to do a scene for PCs running along the top of the train cars, but I can't seem to find an engine car with a roof.

James Long

FoundryVTT?? Of course you can! Foundry has the ability to paste tiles all over the map! In fact, with the Levels mod, or the Multi-level Tokens, you can have the ground level, box car level, rooftop level, and airship level.. all on the same map. :O :O :O There are also several mods to make your character tokens automagically bop from one scene (map) to the next when they cross over in the right place. There is a neat little farm demo map with the Levels mod that demonstrates the functionality. Who did that covered bridge.. Oh yeah! Some kid using the Mad Cartographer handle (not the old school guy).. he published a covered bridge map (for free) with four levels, it lets you go under the bridge to the water level, on the bridge (road) level, up in the rafters of the bridge, AND up on the roof of the bridge! Very cool stuff. :) I mean.. the map quality is lacking a bit, basically default DungeonDraft style.. but the architecture is a good demo of what you can do with the technology in FoundryVTT. :)

How do you get it to animate?

Cze and Peku

Honestly we just make the maps, we're not experts at using Foundry. I'd ask either on our Discord or on the Foundry Discord. You'll find users there that have a better knowledge of these things.

Dread Maps

Is there anyway to combine the Foundry ready versions into one big map? Unsure if you can just copy and paste things, it probably wont work

Carl Baughman

When you do the Station can you also do a proper caboose?

Awesome, and understandable! Thank you guys for all the great content :)

Cze and Peku

We plan to make a Lightning Rail Station eventually. When we do that, we'll try to add train roofs for these too. Unfortunately its difficult to spare time to continue old maps like these as we're always working on the next map. :)

Cze and Peku

The airship assaulting the train is very cool and creative! Modular maps have in general been our least popular which is why we don't focus on them but we plan to do more in future!

Would you be willing to make a roof for these? It feels wrong to have a train encounter without the PCs going on top of these cars!

Nix & Checkers

Modular map sets like this, the airships, and the dragons are imho some of my absolute favorite and most helpful posts. While all your maps are beautiful, these ones lend themselves to so many unforseen possibilities and long-term multi-scenario usefulness, and I know I'll be using all of them. You might get a kick out of seeing this : I looped and animated the rails and dropped it on my VTT background to awesome results: https://imgur.com/a/gsLMh5r Anyway, I love this set, and really hope to see more of the variable-form stuff you guys do so well! Only note I gotta echo is that it could really use a small connector piece. Passenger trains and mysteries go hand in hand, and intrigue is vastly improved when passengers can plausibly move between cars.

Teive

I feel bad for all the non-adventurers who just want to get to the dining cart! (; I ended up taking 4 squares of paneling from the front of the train and a windowed wall and added it between all of the cars (windows are in so players could see lightning arcing between the other two golden panels). Thanks for making these by the way! I subbed today for these in particular and they really are great. I'm excited for the players to see tonight!

Cze and Peku

Mainly a leap of faith!

Cze and Peku

I'm not sure if i have the PSD files still but i'll add this to a to-do list!

Teive

Potentially silly question--how do you envision players/characters travelling from one car to another?

Josh Brodie

This is great! Is it possible to get an engine car without the lightning? Sourcebook suggests that there's a crew cart at each end, with the elemental in the rear cart suppressed when the train is traveling in the other direction.

Cze and Peku

Hi Lee, just released the tracks.

Cze and Peku

Tracks were released today, you can find them on the front page.

Cze and Peku

Just released the tracks today!

Cze and Peku

Cameo we just released them, so you can get the backgrounds now.

Cze and Peku

Just released them today! Enjoy.

Alex Phenomen

+1 for railroad background

Any way to get the rail and the background? I'd love a night version of the background!

BeardedTech

Awesome Map ( well all of them are ) i see a train heist in my players future would also love the rail and background

Agreed, I'd love to have the background with the rails as well!

Davidcruger

anyway we could get the rails that are in th GIF

Cze and Peku

Thanks Peter! It's crazy how long you've been supporting us for. Thanks so much! :)

Peter Holthaus

This thing is about as cool as map packs get!

monosyllabicmonk

Love love love how you balanced the colors on this one!

Sofie Franks

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing!

Marianne Rogers

My players in 6-8 weeks: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQH_VXWXkAMLiQB.jpg

Kielley Bade

This is exciting since I've got a game I'm running with traaains! <3

Thibaut Lorimier

Really great map ! I love it !

Grand Maître Chat

Makes me thinks of Kimetsu no Yaiba. Sir let me says I do not regret spending 5 bucks for all that greatness. Keep em going