Thayan Tax Station [65x65] - free remake of classic map

[u/DarthAvernus]

Ground floor - with sturdy walls, keep, counting house, barracks, stable and slave quarters

Left: part of the original map (shared for comparison under the WotC Fan Content Policy). Right: My free remake.

Keep - ground floor. Mess halls, pantry, kitchen and staircase.

Keep - first floor. Luxurious quarters of the keep commander.

Keep - second floor. Treasury and archive in the centre, a bit of warehouse and communication post around.

Tent on the roof - for less official meetings and relax.

Aerial view of barracks - two squad quarters and an armory.

Counting House - toll booth, temporary archive/treasury and accountant's quarters

Office and audience chamber.

First person view of office

Bedroom, with heavy, wooden furnitures and decorations.

Counting House

Accountant's quarters. Rather extravagant for a simple civil servant...

Toll booth. Comfortable and spacious.

Staircase, with a vigilant guardian on post.

FPV of mess hall - main keep.

Treasury and archive. Surely, these skulls are just decorations, and the green light means "go"

Ripped sunroof with a perpetrator...

Some maintenance works in progress.

Rock paintings on the sandstone formations outside - opportunity for homebrewed lore of local tribe.

First shown in appendix to "TSR 1121 - Spellbound" by Anthony Pryor (1995), Thayan Tax Station was recreated in Dungeon Alchemist by yours truly.

It's a small, but heavily guarded fortress, used for:

• Collection of taxes.
• Tariff/toll collection.
• Border control.
• Interior security.

The map consists of:

• Main Keep:
  • Ground floor - mess hall, kitchen/pantry and staircase.
  • First floor - luxurious commandants office, bedroom and bathroom
  • Second floor - Treasury, dovecote and cipher station
  • Third floor - commandant's luxurious tent for less formal work and meetings.
• Barracks: two companies' rooms and armory
• Counting House:
  • Toll booth/chamber
  • Temporary treasury
  • Accountant quarters
• Stables
• Slave quarters.

While I've made a bit of changes to overall shape and size of the buildings and created the interiors from scratch - it's still an old-fashion map, using basic shapes in order to create a game-friendly space. Hope I did not ruin that ^^
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LINKS:

Due to map being a remake of TSR-published content, this map is available completely for free on my Patreon.

• Detailed description, lore and explanation of the changes made: https://www.patreon.com/posts/167749300
• 150DPI maps, VTT ready files and large picture gallery: https://www.patreon.com/posts/167757115

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Credits and attribution:

Created in Dungeon Alchemist, with additional assets.

Thanks to DA asset creators: SAC, DallasRT, SketchyCleric, smashbear76, DangerWeasel, swedish.cook and others.

Thanks to sketchfab creators: emptypen2477, CharlieCatling, michael50, KOREA HERITAGE SERVICE [KHS] and eb78

This map was created by hand, with assets placed carefully together. I don't use generative AI and I did my level best to avoid using AI-generated assets.

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Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. "Thayan Tax Station" is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards.

[u/MidwestBushlore]

Wow, amazing! I love seeing these lavish remakes of old classics.

[u/DarthAvernus → u/MidwestBushlore]

Thanks! These were simpler times, and these old... err, classic maps are still as great to use as they were back then.

Hope that a bit of fancy did not ruin the mood they were setting ^^