Palace Courtyard

Dozens of courtyards for dozens of conflicts! This palace courtyard should cover your needs no matter what’s happening — from a bustling city market to an expedition into the forbidden jungles of the spirit world!

Thoughts

• The Spirit World variant is tailor-made to tie into the Hidden Spirit Tree Library as a location to discover at the end of the vines!
• You could put the underwater/atlantis variant in a super shallow coral reef. Have someone wreck their ship atop a spire that grazes the waves.

Contents

• Tropical Paradise: A lush palace on a tyrannical tropical island ruled by bananas. In the economic sense, I mean. It’s the cover-art!
• Market: A bustling market in the centre of a local temple, an open-air court, or the local palace!
• Palace Courtyard: A vast stone courtyard for training, dramatic confrontations, or bloody slaughters & assassinations!
• Astral/Space: A palace adrift in the vacuum of space? Or possibly the astral plane, or an eerie void? What do the crystals do?
• Autumn/Dying: A spooky, seemingly abandoned palace. What’s that echoing laughter? Comes with a no-light nighttime variant so you can throw on the lights dramatically.
• Halloween Town: “Oh, that’s where the laughter’s coming from,” someone says shortly before being mauled by the Pumpking.
• Demon Palace: Meant to pair well with the lava throne in The Phoenix King’s Throne Room.
• Demonic Sacrificial Altar: The flaming torches really set the mood here. Good for smiting demons. Comes with an active-ritual variant.
• Elven Poplar: A green & white courtyard for pleasant, beautiful people. Comes with a special surreal/otherworldly variant for dream battles, Lunarian hallucinations, when the murderhobo thief stabs the fair folk’s empress, etc.
• Execution: A special execution in the palace’s courtyard. You must have really messed up. They even got out the mats for the honored guests!
• Forbidden City: You’re not supposed to be here, you know. The yellow roof tiles mean “emperor only”.
• Forbidden Pool: Do NOT fish in the koi pond.
• Spirit World: Tailor-made to pair with the Hidden Spirit Tree Library — a freakish overgrown palace strung up by vines in a misty otherworld!
• Underwater/Atlantis: We think the lich’s treasure-divers went in through the main gate here, but there’s a host of possessed sharks in the way.
• Winter/Ice: This palace has frozen over!
• Day/Night Variants: Wherever applicable!