It will definitely feature in a future horror adventure. This is my favourite mansion, not only because it is huge, but because you could easily get lost in it’s monstrous maze of corridors.
This is the biggest mansion (178,926 square feet!) and this page features beautiful photographs of it and most importantly, maps showing all the various rooms and sections and floors of the mansion. Here are some of my favourites from the web:īiltmore Estate. Sometimes I share them with the players, but more often they’re reference guides for myself.
In these cases, location maps help me as the GM to understand where the PCs are and how far they are from the place they want to go. There’s two types of maps that I like to have available, location maps (just showing what’s where) and map tiles (with 1″ squares for combat).Įspecially in horror games, I often don’t bother with map tiles because I rarely can find exactly what I need and for the players, not knowing exactly where your character is in a building can add to the terror. When I think of a mansion, I think of a monstrous, sprawling edifice, with dozens of rooms, spread over multiple wings and at least two stories high with a basement. When you want to use a mansion for your role-playing game session, you need a good map. Mansions are a great staple of horror and noir games.
