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Void Dragon Lair - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Void Dragon Lair battlemap! Now with swirly space dust, particles, nebulae and of course the dragon itself!

Note that there's no real need to base an encounter here around fig...

Desert Caravanserai [46x68]

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The desert caravanserai! For those of you in desert campaigns and in need of somewhere for your players to rest in whilst the sandstorms and the djinn and the desert bandits prowl outside in the wastes.

This theme has ...

Experimental Surgery Theatre [29x58]

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Another map with a bit of a more modern flair but we've tried to keep it in keeping with a lot of classic RPG tropes. Peku had a ton of fun with the variations on this one, please go and look for all the little details! 30 variations in total so lots to use!

Here's how the three levels connect togeth...

DDB to Alchemy RPG Character Importer and Other Free Goodies!

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There's been a big push on Twitter and elsewhere to boycott DnD over the recent OGL shambles. And we think that's great! Thank you to everyone helping with #DnDBegone and other acts to help creators fight these awful changes.

For those of you who are planning to delete your DnDBeyond membership, we'v...

Bone Dryad Ossuary [31x65]

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Someone on the discord recently asked for a bone dryad lair and the concept of a bone dryad just sounded so evocative, so here's our attempt at it! An espaliered tree made of bones and sap in an ornate tomb. Hopefully this makes for a perfect map when fighting a powerful necromancer too! Or just a cool pla...

News and Recap for 2023 from Czepeku

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First things first: thank you all so much for supporting our work in 2022 and for being part of this community! It really does mean the world to us that you support our work and enable us to live this dream of ours.

We want to say a super special thank you to the 6 patrons who signed...

Steam Factory [40x22]

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We had people asking us for some more modern content as well as more dungeon-like maps and also more horizontal maps, so here's all three of those requests together! There's 3 floors with an entrance on the ground floor, but there's windows and chimneys and such in case you want to heist your way in or out...

Nymph Fountain [33x57]

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Welcome to the Nymph Fountain. We felt like it was time to make another serene map, this time with nymphs in mind, or maybe meeting Pan or some other woodland deity hanging around in this old spring, conoodling with the flowers and the fungi. In a way this feels a bit like a western themed reimagining of o...

Alchemy Dungeon [45x73] (Collaboration with Borough Bound!)

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Here's our newest map, the Alchemy Dungeon! An alchemy/wizard lab/dungeon has been a recurring request for a while so hopefully this is just what you were all looking for!

This map in particular was designed to accompany the current 2022-12-15 18:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post

'Weekly' Poll #38

Hey everyone! After a really long time, we're back with a new poll!

You can vote for as many options as you like.

If you're in the Master Cartographer tier or above and have any suggestions for the next poll leave them in the comments below or come join the discussion in the Map Sugge...

Bone Mill - Animated Battlemap

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We've got a new animated map for you. :) This is the animated version of our Bone Mill Interior map. It just had so many cool cogs, hammers, belts and such that it felt perfect for animating. Hopefully you all l...

Nightmare Dragon Lair [29x64]

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This is the long conclusion to our dragon lair entrances series. We ran a poll for what dragon people wanted to see next in July...2021 and we just didn't know what to do for this one. And then suddenly we felt ready to face the nightmare and here's the result. Lots of teeth, eyes, blood, gore, we...

Megalith Gate [45x60]

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We wanted to capture the feeling of a bleak, weird, frigid, alien planet with this one. We wanted it to feel like the world was sloping in on itself in unnatural ways. The main alien structure in the map is a portal that expands and opens in 5 parts. But you can also use it for anything you like: an ancien...

Riverwood Toll Castle - Animated Battlemap

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Here's an animated version of our recent Riverwood Toll Castle map! The river is flowing mighty fast, the flags are blowing in the breeze, the trees are swaying, the birds are flying and the hearth is billowing with smoke. Seems like a fine day for capturing a castle!

The track in the video is "Autum...

Hanging Gardens [29x58]

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So we haven't done an Ancient World style map for a long time and we thought we should do another! Hopefully this can go with our Colossus Port map in a series of Ancient Wonders. If you'd like to see more, let us ...

Village Wainwright Shop [26x41]

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This is the next map in our Village starter set, continuing on from the Village Blacksmith we posted last week. We've now got a pretty impressive array of buildings but we're still planning a general shop, a stable...

Elder Brain Spine Mine [57x39]

(spine mine rhyme time)

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This is part 3 of our Elder Brain Dungeon. This is the middle section, the spine and the ribs, currently being mined out by the Mind Flayer slaves.

Below is a preview of how the three parts are meant to fit together. We're sorry for how the stitching isn't pe...

Blacksmith Secret Grotto [various]

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This is a follow up to our Village Blacksmith we released at the end of last month. We said we'd do a follow up with an interior, so here it is!

There's a ground floor with the huge forge, an upstairs as livi...

Hellfire Prison - Animated Battlemap

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Here's an animated version of our recent Hellfire Prison map! Explore dark, hellish corridors and cells full of tortured souls, all whilst dangerous lava flows around you, crackling and burning the edges of this ...

Elder Brain Sacrum Shrine [39x57]

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We made the original Lair of the Elder Brain for Halloween waaaay back in 2019. It's now Halloween 2022 and we wanted to do a follow up!

As we made the Elder Brain inhabit the skull of a giant skeleton we tho...

Would you like us to make splash art of our maps?

Hey everyone! Some of you will have already been part of this ongoing discussion on our Discord but we wanted to bring the discussion here for those who don't use Discord or didn't see our pings.

This piece of splash art was made to accompany our Shadow Fortress Bridge map. It was originally created specifically for use...

How did you hear about us? (Part 3)

Hey everyone! Three new maps are coming soon, including a new Mind Flayer dungeon, an expansion to our recent Blacksmith map and a modular Underdark cave system. We wanted to make at least some spooky maps for October!

But for now we wanted to ask everyone how they came to stumble upon our maps and this patreon in parti...

Rusty Robot Lake [40x56]

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A rusted robot from a long forgotten time, their sword slipping further into the spring waters year by year. The fisherfolk who live on the lake swear that the robot talks some days, babbling nonsensical odes from the past. Everyone else says it's just the wind rattling around in its rusted shell, but who ...

Village Blacksmith [26x38]

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This is the next in our series of Peaceful Village maps, a continuation from last month's Peaceful Village Church. Blacksmiths are always handy to have around, so we hope your party has a lot of uses for t...

Djinn Gardens [33x53]

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Our idea for this was a tomb where a djinn was resting and a garden that is mysteriously always tended, as if by will alone. The waves lap at the shore, the cliff crumbles away eon by eon, but the garden always remains. Many visitors take this path now, passing through, paying their respects, making sure n...

Tutelary Turtle Island - Animated Battlemap

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Here's an animated version of our recent Turtle Island map! A beautiful, serene, slow moving turtle, just living their best life swimming in the ocean. We hope you can have some magical fey adventures here. :)

Those of you...

Mountain Logging Camp [24x34]

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This is one of those ideas that's been in our head for years and just never really got around to being created until now. We wanted to create this multi-tiered camp where workers were getting around using winches and old wooden lifts and then sending the trees back to town using the flow of the river and a...

Gruuk Jit'Jit Takes to the Skies - Collaboration with Borough Bound

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We've got a lot of free fantastic bonus content for you!

At the bottom of this post there's lots of free airships/spelljammers created by our friends at Borough Bound, 2022-09-12 20:59:56 +0000 UTC View Post

The Crystal Veil [40x53]

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This ship started its design as a Spelljammer Crystal Ship, but then we added more and more wood and human elements until we realized it wasn't a Crystal Ship at all by the end of it. But we liked the design so much that we wanted to keep working on it. So instead, we've designed this as a completely diffe...

Forgotten Chapel - Animated Battlemap

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Here's an animated version of our recent Forgotten Chapel map! We wanted to focus on a spooky atmosphere for this map, so there's lots of circling crows, swaying dead trees, eerie lights and obscuring fog.