GM's Maps #83: Community Resource Center

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The Community Resource Centre is a small but very useful organisation providing a wide range of services to the local community and staffed by community volunteers as well as a few specialists. From the community cafe where you can have an inexpensive hot meal and mix with neighbours and other members of the community, to the access to legal services, youth workers and councillors along with other professionals. The centre also provides space for community groups, form craft and hobby groups to writing circles and training courses. First aid facilities are also on hand and the emergency services can use the building as a staging area in the case of natural disasters or serious accidents. There is even a community radio station on the top floor!

This product is based on just such a CRC based in the authors home town and a portion of profits from these sales will go towards the centre.

In addition to the map, which comes as in both simple format (mostly monochrome with a pale blue grid, as well as a version without the grid) and colour format for a more striking visual appeal, you will also find a key and 10 adventure/plot hooks.

Sample Plot Hooks included in this product:-

1/. Staging Area

The small community has been torn apart by a colliery collapse. The old mine shafts have finally given way and broken power and gas lines causing secondary explosions all over the town. Dozens are dead or injured, buildings are on fire or collapsing, the bottom end of the main street has vanished into a sinkhole.

The overworked emergency services and dozens of civilian volunteers are doing everything they can to save as much of the town and rescue as many people as possible. The Community Resource Centre has become a staging point. Emergency response briefings are being run in one of the project rooms, they are doing triage on the street outside; the walking wounded are being fed and given tea in the community cafe. The PCs are volunteers or members of the rescue services who are being based out of the staging area that is the CRC and will face a range of challenges as they try to help and rescue friends and neighbours.

(By B F Irving)

10/. The Signal

One of the community radio DJs is secretly a cultist of some ancient, forgotten god. They plan to broadcast a signal that has hidden within it an eldritch spell. If the signal is sent out, it will summon portals to the pocket dimension where the god lies trapped and dreaming wherever the signal is heard. The PCs must stop the transmission but the cultist has companions hidden in the CRC, and the local authorities, who think the PCs are the villains, are on their way.

(By Alan Telford)

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.