GM's Map #59: Plantation House

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Plantations, and hence plantation houses were common all across the European-influenced world an in European colonies, although exactly what the plantation was producing often varied by region or even by nation.

Houses such as this were common in the Caribbean, Asia (Especially India) and the America's.

This product contains two version of the Plantation House map (One as it might have looekd original the second is a modern conversion or a modern build), text detailing the history of plantations and plantation houses, a list of common plantation crops and 10 adventure hooks for adventures you can set in the Plantation House and it's surrounding plantation.

Examples:

3/. A Hell of Their Own Making (Supernatural Horror)

The plantation owner buys new slaves in order to profit from his ever-growing business, only for one woman to possess dark magic/voodoo, and with each beating, every whip lashing and rattling chains, every painful death of one of her people, each brutal assault against her and her hot, angry tears, her powers grow and grow...

She finally explodes and unleashed a terrifying curse upon the master and his family; the plantation becomes a dark and decaying cotton farm, the plants carnivorous and devouring the flesh of any that walk by, strange creatures that lurk in the shadows stalk and hunt the masters and every slave who dies rises from the dead, at the bidding of their priestess.

Eventually the plantation owners try to escape but begin to realise they can't get away – they are already dead and trapped in a hell of their own making.

5/. Southern Hospitality (Gothic Horror)

The stranger arrived on a dark and stormy night, who could turn him away? He seems wan and tired and impossibly thirsty but he won't drink... wine.

Just as the ancient lore dictates, his kind rely on hospitality, for they can not enter a hoe without invitation. Now he has been invited in though, well, the family and their house servants are all fair game for the stranger's thirst for blood.

(Concept by Daniel Dunlavey)

8/. Cartel (Thriller/Espionage)

The plantation is a front for the Cartel's drug running operations. The PCs are trying to infiltrate the cartel to bring it down. Can they collect the evidence and undermine the Cartel before they are caught and tortured or killed (or most likely both?).

(Concept Connor Milne)

Publisher's Licence

Publishers wishing to use this map in their own products may do so subject to the following restrictions;

You may use the map in your own adventures or supplements provided you add your own content.

This map may not be resold as part of a product that is intended primarily as a map or collection of maps.

If you use this map, please credit the author B F Irving and Gethsemane Games and include the line “Map created with Campaign Cartographer by Profantasy Software”

Map created by B F Irving using Campaign Cartographer 3 by Profantasy Software Ltd.