Another huge map bundle - Science Fiction

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This is a huge (and I do mean HUGE) bundle of floor plans and maps for SF games, some of them obviously inspired by SF films etc.

Heroic Maps Future

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/FutureMaps

This all-new Heroic Maps Future Bundle presents full-color digital battlemaps from Heroic Maps for any tabletop SFRPG. Since 2013 Joseph and Sarah Bilton have produced battlemaps and tiles featuring castles and villages, dungeons and crypts, starships and space stations. Funded by a strong Patreon campaign, Heroic Maps has published hundreds of unique landscapes, starscapes, and deck plans. We presented a wide-ranging sample of fantasy worlds (including nine layers of Hell) in the June 2022 Heroic Maps Bundle. This new offer heads to the stars with science-fictional settings including spacecraft and space station deck plans, an asteroid base for smugglers, and lots of planetside structures.

Print these gorgeous .PDF battle sites for your game table, or import the .JPG images into your favorite virtual tabletop (VTT) like Roll20, Foundry VTT, or Fantasy Grounds. Each map has grid and no-grid versions, and each image is provided in both low- and high-resolution quality. ("High quality" = a total of 23 gigabytes of battlemaps – the largest Bundle of Holding filesize ever!)

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these map sets have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Heroic Maps Future offer's pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

The total retail value of the titles in this Heroic Maps Future Bundle is a rich US$183. Customers who pay just US$14.95 get all ten complete map sets in our Space Collection (retail value $71.50), including four space stations – Lithilus Station Shipyard (retail price $10), Orbital Station Scova 4 (normal version) and Red Alert (the same station under attack – retail $6.50 each), Docking Bay 1V-1E (retail $4.50), Smuggler Asteroid Base (retail $5.50); four starships – The Crow's Nest (retail $15), Old Scoter (retail $2.50), Greywing (retail $2.50), HLS Vincula Prison Ship (retail $6.50); and the space hulk known as Locus Alien Megastructure (retail $12).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $27.95 to start, also get our entire Planetside Collection with fifteen more map sets worth an additional $111.50, including many locations in the desert city Eyno Bleside – Cantina (retail $6.50), Docking Bay (retail $12.50), Colony Market (retail $6.50), Housing District (retail $6.50), Military Compound J-22b (retail $6.50), plus the Parsgritt Sandsea Docks (retail $8.50), Sector K-6 Supply Depot (retail $4), Streets of Enna Shallu (retail $10), Arung Ry Outpost: Cantina (retail $4); and multiple points of interest from many planets, including Cadus Zone Scrapyard (retail $6.50), Caldera Power Station (retail $6.50), Elvie's Hope (retail $5.50), various Landing Platforms (retail $8.50), a Mountain Landing Pad (retail $4.50), and Petraluna Corp Prison Mine (retail $15).

So far I've only downloaded one of these sets; the landing bay, which looks like a moderately interesting setting for a firefight if a bit generic,  I would have downloaded more, but the Bundle of Holding site went down for maintenance as I tried. My guess is that too many people trying to grab these huge files at the same time has caused problems - hopefully not too serious, since it's already working again, albeit fairly slowly, but it's probably a good idea to download them gradually as you need them.

One problem that always strikes me with these high-definition maps is that they are going to be a bit of a bastard to use - if you print them out you'll get through a shit-ton of ink or toner, if you use them on screen only a lot of the impact is lost. There are people who use flat screens as gaming tables for this sort of thing, and I'm guessing that's the main market - which may help to account for this item's price. If that's not an issue they may be worth a look.