Fox Spirit's Island Palace

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By very popular request, a modular Japanese-style surreal palace dungeon tileset featuring nearly 200 rooms inspired by fox-spirit legends and youkai folklore, along with an example dungeon layout divided loosely into three thematic zones based on the titular spirit’s domains: Hospitality, Desire-Deception, and Memory. I’ve tried to stuff every room tile as full as possible with visual storytelling elements — ranging from courtyards, banquet halls, memory gardens, & mirrored audience halls — to drive encounters with flair!

These room tiles should pair well with the ones included in the Modular Japanese Castle Interiors tileset battlemap.

Thoughts

• Secret doors. Use them. Also, magic circles, mirrors, and other tricks. The default layout is designed to be as impenetrable and as convoluted as possible. Fox spirits do not build Versailles. No straight paths. Every direct line is false. Loops, dead-ends, and fake-outs. Locked rooms, wards, puzzles, and poisons. Make them doubt everything.

• I’d rearrange & reshuffle room tiles on the VTT canvas while the players aren’t looking, personally.

• All of the exterior bronze fox statues face the primary shrine on the north-west side of the island. It’d be a good place to treat as the ‘core’ of the dungeon.

• The bridge has been damaged, but I have attempted to leave it ambiguous whether or not it connects to land & is crossable or simply drops off into the water.

Contents

• Dungeon Tileset: Nearly two hundred interior tiles with dozens of weird setpieces & surreal encounter parts to stretch across a rogue spirit’s mind-palace! Each tile is 140ppi WEBP & they come in a range of sizes (multiples of 10’×10’).

• Island Palace: A fox spirit’s fantasy palace on an island. Includes both a pre-built dungeon layout as well as blank "template" maps as a clean slate for you to assemble your own on top of!

• Fog Palace: The palace is surrounded by a dense fog — is this a kind of senkai? Or is it on top of a mountain?

• Void Palace: The palace floats in an eerie void. May pair excellently with the Void Path variant of the Youkai Night Market & Spirit Realm Entrance.

• Canopy Overlays: Built for VTT canopy usage!

• Day/Night Variants: Wherever applicable!

Dimensions

• 36”×54” wide/tall for the main map; tileset is variable & listed in filenames

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