Market Day at Millbrook
A cobbled market square on a bright morning: stalls, a fountain, a church, a smithy.
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The place
Setting: Mid-morning sun on market day
A market town on market day. A cobbled square opens round a fountain with a statue in its basin, ringed with stalls, awnings, a food stall and a merchant's tent, their fronts to the open middle. A stone church with a tall spire closes the north side between timber town houses, the road comes in from the south past a windmill on its rise and the miller's balconied house, and a millpond with a plank jetty lies in the south-east among birches and reeds.
Three buildings on the square are places the party goes into, each with its door onto the cobbles and a furnished room under a roof that lifts in Play: the smithy, stone under clay tiles, with its forge fire, grindstone and quench barrels; the general store, brick under terracotta, with a counter, shelves and stock; and the guildhall, an L of red brick with tables laid under a chandelier, bookcases and a clock. A minstrel plays at the fountain, a herbalist works the food stall, the smith and the shopkeeper are at work, and the party walks in from the south road. Trouble is already in the crowd: a pickpocket hidden from the players, a thug by the stalls and a bugbear in the lane by the church.
What the recipe places
- 7 floor and road ops
- 1 wall runs
- 62 props, lines and scatters
- 1 lights and effects
- 11 miniatures
Encounters it was built for
- The pickpocket: a purse goes missing, and the chase runs through the stalls, round the fountain and into the lanes.
- A brawl in the square: stalls, carts and the fountain kerb as cover, townsfolk to keep out of it.
- The bugbear in the lane: a collector for someone, and the guildhall is who owes.
- A shopping session that becomes a heist: the general store's counter, the smithy's stock, the guildhall's strongroom.
- Market-day festival: the minstrel at the fountain draws a crowd, and someone in it is not here for the music.
Tips
- In Play, press U to lift the roofs and step into the smithy, the store or the guildhall.
- Mark the pickpocket Hidden from players and show it when the purse goes missing.
- Drag the time-of-day slider to evening for lanterns and long shadows over the square.
- Use the room tool to add a building of your own to the square; its roof joins the house it touches.
- Pings (double-click) point the players at a stall without moving anyone's token.
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Free top-down battle map
A flat, gridded version of Market Day at Millbrook for any other tabletop: straight down, north up, 48 by 39 squares at 70 pixels per 5-foot square, with no miniatures on it. Set your tabletop's grid to 70 px and it lines up.
Free under CC BY 4.0: use it, share it and change it, in paid work too, as long as you credit TerrainTale. Some buildings in it are other artists' CC BY models, credited on the About page.
Questions
Can I change Market Day at Millbrook after loading it?
Yes. A template is a normal scene once built: paint, drag, delete and add to it, then save it as your own project.
How long does it take to load?
A few seconds. The recipe compiles instantly and the models it uses download from the built-in library on first use, then stay cached.
Can I make my own template?
Write a recipe (see Build with AI) and import it with File ▸ Import Scene JSON, or save any scene as a project and reopen it from the welcome screen.
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