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New Czepeku Website Functionality!

Hey everyone!

A quick post to share with you some new functionality of the czepeku.com website.

We plan to keep increasing the functionality of the websites for each project, so it there's something you think would really come in handy that we haven'...

Chrono Chaos Ruins [28x56]

Hey everyone!

We had some suggestions for magical accidents and floating wizard ruins so hopefully this will help with all those mishaps and catastrophes, or an epic set piece in a time dungeon!

If you're looking for some new cool magic based content to go with this map, 2023-10-17 20:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Haunted Ghost Ship Interior

Hi everyone :)

Here is the interior to our Haunted Ghost Ship! Right at the bottom of Davy Jones' Locker, your crew can now explore the puzzles of this ship (assuming they can cast Water Breathing). 

What treasures co...

Village Blacksmith - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Village Blacksmith battlemap! Now with billowing smoke, swaying trees, sparks and flames from the furnace and cute sygnets on the lake.

The video above contains the track "Myrilight Clocktower...

Archaeological Dig [29x55]

Hey everyone!

We hope you're having a great September and enjoying the coming autumn/spring weather. :)

An archaeological dig in some form or another has been suggested a lot over the years (people just love bones and ruins I guess!) so here's our attempt on the theme. The long buried ruins of a fight to the death...

Monster Hunter Restaurant [32x53]

Hey everyone!

This is the first of a new 2 part series (maybe longer if you want more for this theme)! So what do you do with all those dragons and mandrakes and krakens once you've slain them? Well, sell them to fancy people to eat at ridiculously lavish dinner parties!

or...

Put an end to this mad...

Beachside Cliff [30x42]

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We figured it's been a long time since we made a map that really focused on nature, so we wanted to make this ode to the beach. Hopefully this is a fun map to explore for your party, maybe ship wrecked on an island or about to set sail in the tropic seas. It's a good place to find buried treasure or for th...

Map Poll #41

Hey everyone! Time for a new poll!

You can vote for as many options as you like.

This is a special poll for us to find out which of our maps you'd most like a sequel to! Another level of, or an interior for, etc.

In related news we want you all to know that 2023-09-19 19:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Haunted Ghost Ship Exterior [29x49]

Hey everyone!

It's been a while since we made an underwater map. This is our answer to what's at the true bottom of the deepest trench of the ocean. Our attempt at a Davy Jones's Locker. A resting place of ghost ships and fallen sailors looking out at the endless abyss and weird abyssal fish.

You might have notice...

Ancient Stepwell [57x95]

Hey everyone!

A stepwell has been requested for years now and we wanted to do one to the full scale we think they should be. So... this map is massive! One of our largest ever maps, so we hope you like it. The perspective wa...

Warforged City Centre [27x57]

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This is the next map in our City Centre series. We made Elven and Dwarven recently and Warforged was requested a lot. We pictured this being in the ruins of an old Creation Forge after it was destroyed. The Warforged returned to this spot and began to live in the ruins. We particularly like the idea of the...

Rebel Camp [35x51]

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Welcome to the Rebel Camp. We thought of this like the last stand of a people trying to defend their territory. They've been hiding out in the caves but have now set up pallisades and other defences for an incoming attack. If all goes badly they can escape into the mountain pass, but it's a dangerous long ...

Grand Cathedral [44x88]

Hey everyone!

Welcome to the grand cathedral. Perfect for seeking sanctuary, fighting bellringers and tragic cleric backstories. Or just feeding the swans. :3

Making a massive gothic cathedral like this has been on our to-make list for a long long time, so we're happy to finally release this! Let us know what you ...

Yggdrasil Roots [33x64]

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This is the final, final part of the Yggdrasil series. We hadn't initially planned this section but as it was requested a lot we thought we'd give a go! We wanted to show the Nidhogg chewing on the roots ...

Tomb of Sand - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Tomb of Sand battlemap! Now with cascading sandfalls, flowing sandrivers and glittering golden domes.

The video above contains the track "You'll Never Leave Al Ibra" off of 2023-08-11 05:56:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Quaint Village School [30x48]

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Welcome to the Quaint Village School. The layout is based on the Victorian era school that Cze attended as a child. We tried to convey a sense of safety with the wall and trees encircling the school grounds. And then undermine that in some of the variations, like Dark Presence, which is a great setup for d...

Map Poll #40

New map poll for August! It's been a while since we've run one of these. :)

Reminder: 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 discussio...

Fortified Dam [36x58]

Hey everyone!

Welcome to the Fortified Dam. This is a massive map and we tried to make a ton of variations for it. We think there's a lot of cool scenarios you could run here, getting your players to battle up and down the n-shaped area, or leaping across the rapids of water whilst vying for control of the dam. This wou...

Dead Angel Reef [29x57]

Hey everyone!

This idea of an angel crashed into a coral reef was one that Peku had about 18 months ago and we finall thought this month was the right time to make it!

We thought it would make for an interesting biome and an exciting moment for your party to stumble upon. What happened here? Why has this celestial...

Pastoral Village Stables [29x46]

Hey everyone!

This is the lastest battlemap in our cosy starter village series. If you want to find all of the maps in this series we've added a section in the Ancient Map Room which lists them all.

As usual the idea is...

Mushroom Infested Mines - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Mushroom Infested Mines battlemap! Now with coursing subtarranean rivers, flickering lanterns and of course lots of spore filled fungi living their best lives.

The video above c...

Overground Dwarven City Centre [36x59]

Hey everyone!

This is the next in our City Centre series. In case you missed it, we already covered the Elven City Centre and Goblin City ...

Burial Barrow [32x47]

Hey everyone this map was inspired by photos of the Corrimony Chambered Cairn (thank you Essay for identifying the exact location). We wanted to make a map that covered several different time periods, the Neolithic cairn, the sheep ...

Arctic Expedition [45x87]

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Someone on the discord suggested Arctic Expedition as a theme with this old painting of the HMS Erebus and we were so taken by it that we decided to make it into a battlemap!

We decided the Erebus was too l...

Wizard Bank Interior [various]

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This is the second part of our Wizard Bank series, following from the Wizard Vault map pack. That map was the main foyer and contained the main vault. In this pack we're showing some of the surrounds of the ban...

The Forbidden Gates - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Forbidden Gates battlemap! Now with creaking trees, cheeky chickens, swaying chains, flickering torches, giant prayer wheels and more!

The video above contains the track "A Mom...

Upcoming 'City Centre' Poll

Hey everyone!

Hopefully you've seen the recent Goblin City Centre and Elven City Centre map packs. We're planning on continuing that s...

Goblin City Centre [29x56]

Hey everyone!

This is a special map for us! Our 200th! A big thank you to everyone who has supported us and got us to this point. We couldn't have done it without you. :') And a special big thank you to the 5 patrons who have supported us continously from our first week, waaaay back in January 2019.

With that said...

Yggdrasil Treetop [30x63]

Hey everyone!

This is the 4th and final (maybe we could do the roots?) part of our Yggdrasil series. Get the rest here:

The Village

2023-06-17 04:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Dragon's Hoard [29x59]

Hey everyone!

This is a classic theme and something we should probably have drawn much much earlier! Especially as this can pair so well with the various entrances we've drawn to dragon lairs. I'll add some links to those below:

2023-06-16 03:22:34 +0000 UTC View Post