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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 fighting the dragon itself, it could be fighting off a lich or other powerful monster that wants to take the baby dragon's life force or use it for some nefarious deed and y...
2023-01-21 16:42:46 +0000 UTC
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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 long been suggested so we're glad to finally give life to it. Hopefully it's what you were looking for! Oh and the $5 rewards had to be split into 4 zips because the map ...
2023-01-19 10:39:34 +0000 UTC
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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 together:
We know that a Victorian-era surgery like this has been requested ...
2023-01-18 06:04:21 +0000 UTC
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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've made a free and easy to use importer that'll save your character and recreate it in Alchemy RPG (our VTT...
2023-01-15 15:51:14 +0000 UTC
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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 place to fight some skeletons and zombies.
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I feel like we should say something about what's going on with the OGL 1.1 as that's the hot news right now.&...
2023-01-11 17:16:26 +0000 UTC
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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 up to us on our very first week way back in January 2019 and are still patrons now! It's surreal to think how far we've come since then.
We created a ...
2023-01-02 14:55:24 +0000 UTC
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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. We thought it'd be fun to maybe damage the machines, let the room fill with smoke and then you can sneak around. The first floor is meant to be where the workers use th...
2022-12-30 10:31:30 +0000 UTC
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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 our Zen Temple we made so many years ago.
And of course because it's Christmas, here's a big winter throne for everyone's favourite toy distributor, in case you want...
2022-12-25 13:34:36 +0000 UTC
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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 Borough Bound city that we're working on Falthringor, the mighty mountaintop fortress!
Here's a neat little gif preview of the full city!<...
2022-12-15 18:11:45 +0000 UTC
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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 Suggestions room on our community Discord! We often get a lot of map ideas from there.
We get so many suggestions these days and there's a max amount of poll optio...
2022-12-14 11:47:28 +0000 UTC
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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 like the finished result! This will hopefully make an awesome assault course for your players and just hope that they don't get crushed along the way!
The track in t...
2022-12-14 11:01:43 +0000 UTC
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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, weird semi-living walls and fountains of blood. Miau. :3
We did a lot of variations for this map and some of them are pretty crazy looking and weird. But remember the...
2022-12-13 18:02:40 +0000 UTC
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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 ancient computer, a weird magical artefact, an object of spiritual importance, an astronomical clock, and so on.
This is a really big map and we made a lot of variations....
2022-11-30 05:43:06 +0000 UTC
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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 "Autumn on the Ramparts (Strike)" by the wonderful Will Savino, from his album Music ...
2022-11-29 16:38:21 +0000 UTC
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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 know!
We made a load of variations for this one and for our $5 tier patrons we've included the maps as separate PNG tokens. Hope you get a lot of good use out of th...
2022-11-23 13:57:32 +0000 UTC
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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 stables, a post office and a cooper. If there's any more buildings you'd like to see let us know! We think these are going to look awesome when they're all together. Hopefully ...
2022-11-18 17:05:55 +0000 UTC
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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 perfect but hopefully it'll still wow your players nonetheless!
We made ...
2022-11-06 17:09:18 +0000 UTC
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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 living quarters, a basement and within the basement an entrance to a secret fey grotto in the caves below the house. Check the variations list below to see all the floors!
2022-10-29 08:18:04 +0000 UTC
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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 prison island!
The accompanying track in the video is "Blood War Conscript" by the wonderful Will Savino, from his album 2022-10-29 05:52:23 +0000 UTC
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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 thought it'd be a cool idea to connect that to a dungeon showing the rest of the skeleton. In our head canon, the Mind Flayers are using their mind slaves to excavate the to...
2022-10-26 16:02:06 +0000 UTC
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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 in Alchemy RPG but having seen some positive responses about the map in conjunction with the splash art i...
2022-10-26 12:30:44 +0000 UTC
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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 particular. If you've been a patron for a long while you might have answered this already as we asked it in
2022-10-17 13:07:05 +0000 UTC
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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 knows?
The idea for this map came from a painting Cze saw of a Dutch village with ice skaters. Not sure how it turned into this, but that's just what happens someti...
2022-10-06 20:11:01 +0000 UTC
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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 this location. Sometimes you need to find a master smith to forge you an epic sword, sometimes you just need to sit and feed the swans. Both are possible here. :)
Th...
2022-10-01 00:52:28 +0000 UTC
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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 not the disturb the garden and by doing so rousing the undead djinn from its slumber. Perhaps though the flowers from this garden have special healing properties, or magic...
2022-09-24 23:05:25 +0000 UTC
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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 running Spelljammer campaigns will be happy to hear there's also an animated version of the astral variant too! So if you'd prefer your turtle swimming through space, we...
2022-09-19 21:09:29 +0000 UTC
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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 aquaducts.
We hope you have lots of fun battles fighting archers on the higher levels, fighting your way across the series of lifts and bridges.
We wanted to s...
2022-09-17 22:07:59 +0000 UTC
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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, Limithron, Venatus Maps and 2022-09-12 20:59:56 +0000 UTC
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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 different type of human ship for exploring the Astral Sea, using its Astral Sails to propel itself along. Don't worry though, we're currently working on actual Crystal Ship wh...
2022-08-31 18:37:19 +0000 UTC
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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.
The track in the video is "Realm of the Dead" by the wonderful Will Savino, from his album 2022-08-31 16:23:36 +0000 UTC
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