Japanese Manor - Tendo Dojo

A mansion by any standard, crawling with looping paths & spare rooms. Host a heist, feast, duel, or murder!

This map is an upgrade of a much older map of mine, one of the first I ever drew, and it’s based on the floor plan for the titular family’s home in Ranma 1/2 … modified for pre-modern concerns, of course. I also had to fix several archtectural flaws with the original plans.

Thoughts

• Rooftops make excellent pathways to avoid line-of-sight.
• The included blueprints make for good player handouts or rewards for being forward with information-gathering.
• I think my favorite of the variants is actually the abandoned, ruined version, though it’s a close call between that and the Pokemon arena … although that set’s pretty specialized, I’ll admit.
• If you’d like to make it a larger dungeon, try hiding textual mentions of a secret entrance in a couple places. Have a guard blab about it in earshot, or have it written in a journal.

Contents

• Tendo Dojo: A Japanese mansion fit for feasts, duels, heists, and assassinations.
• Slaughter: The aforementioned assassination!
• Blueprints: For your handouts, full maps of the mansion!
• Abandoned: An overgrown palace hidden in the undergrowth. What fiend has taken over this place? (Could an illusion present it as being an intact home before the truth is revealed?)
• Faewild: A wrecked house in an alien realm.
• Nightmare: Having bad dreams? Stepped into a monster’s trap? Pissed off the clingy spirit? The swirling tendrils of fog might prevent your escape.
• Pokemon Arena: By special request. Is it a private yard or a gym? Also usable for other fights requiring a lot of space, of course.
• Spring: Cherry blossoms & sakura trees at the manor.
• Autumn: Winter is coming!
• Winter: Whoops, it’s already here.
• Canopy Overlays: Built for VTT canopy usage!
• Day/Night Variants: Wherever applicable!