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This is the Outer Court of the Palace. We plan to make the Inner Court connect to that bridge at the top. At the top of the Inner Court will sit the Royal Throne Room. This is for everyone that was asking for a more dungeon-like area to accompany that map.
This is largely inspired by English royal courts such as Hampton Court Palace. That might help if you want some inspiratio...
2022-02-23 00:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! We're back with two new animated maps! This time we've recreated our popular Celestial Gate and provided both the day and night versions! We won't usually be doing variations of the animated maps but this one looked so cool at night that we had to include it.
We hope you can use this magical map to transport your party to all sorts of different re...
2022-02-13 22:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
We want to tell you about an exciting board game project we've been working on.
Peku has been making these beautiful hex tiles for an upcoming boardgame Aldarra Reborn!
We don't usually take on projects beyond this patreon but the Aldarra Reborn team are awesome, so we jumped on board.
If you're a fan of the airship content w...
2022-01-28 23:08:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome to the floating markets. These ships make for good places to buy rare goods, stepping stones to cross the river or a way to find your way up the river undetected. We were imagining some rooftop fight scenes whilst designing this map and a lot of sneaking about, hiding from guards patroling the bridge.
This is our final map of the month but of course we'll be back next month with more maps. :) Right now we're working on a war camp, a cathedral, an extension to...
2022-01-27 19:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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A little beach town for you all inspired by several real world locations. We hope all the various levels gives you a fun town to assault by ship or maybe defend from pirates! There's some variations in this that'd let you use it as a desert city, a floating city or maybe a city in hell.
Part way through designing this map we thought it might be cool to do the interior of that big church-market building in the top right and perhaps the cellars of it too. So maybe you'...
2022-01-23 20:36:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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We designed this with input from the Discord server, so thanks for everyone who chipped in for that! :)
This is meant to depict the ruins of an old water temple, the endless vase still decanting water in the dry desert millennia later. We hope this can act as a mysterious oasis within an inhospitable desert. Perhaps for those who've just crossed the Antlion Canyons.
We're thinking of making an version of this map set thousands of years earlier, when the temple ...
2022-01-21 16:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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The 'Smuggler's Fen' concept was suggested on the Discord a little while back and it reminded Cze of a place he knows called St Benet's Abbey, so we used that as the basis for this map. Our idea was that the ships arrive on the southern shore, barrels unload and are guarded in the abandoned monastery/windmill area and then loaded up on th...
2022-01-15 20:10:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! We're back with a new animated map. This time we've recreated our popular Shadow Fortess Bridge!
We're so stoked by how well Remi (the animator) managed to bring the distant shadow beast to life. Super creepy. Let us know what you think!
Oh and the music in the promo video above is called "The Dee'p (Dissonant Orchestra)" by Will Savino, who we're working with on our new <...
2022-01-09 20:14:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! On our recent Hunter's House map we posted about our sister project Borough Bound and we got a whole lot of messages about it. So here's some awesome free Borough Bound content for you all to introduce the project!
What does Borough Bound do? Borough Bound, creates full RPG cities for your tabletop campaigns.
We release massive RPG cities for you to ei...
2022-01-04 20:10:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is our FINAL map of the year. Thanks again to everyone who supported our work over this difficult year. We really appreciate everyone's support!
Someone on the Czepeku Discord asked where the interior to the cave was for the Medusa's Wake and there wasn't one. But an idea for it quickly jumped into our minds and this is it!
2021-12-31 19:04:34 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the River Stronghold! From speaking to some patrons here and over on the Discord we noticed that some of our first ever maps like the Goblin Bridge, Abandoned Mine Entrance and Mountaintop Altar were some of our most used and most liked maps. And they all have something in common, being both very compact and very singular in the concept, a bridge, a clifftop, etc. So we had a pretty simple goal with this map and it was to go back to our roots and try something l...
2021-12-31 16:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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A giant pirate in the middle of the ocean! Created from the ships of their enemies and the skulls of their titan foes! Behold: The Pirate Lord's Lair!
This map theme was suggested and voted for about 18 months ago and it was one of those maps we had half-made for maybe a year now but was never quite sure how to finish. Well we decided we wouldn't end 2021 without tackling i...
2021-12-30 00:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
This has been a slow month for us as we moved countries again and we're currently back at our homes visiting our families for the holidays. We hope you're all having a wonderful end to the year! Expect several more releases near the end of the month. :)
This is the Ground Floor but there's also an Upper Floor and a small Basement level too. We thought of this map as the hom...
2021-12-23 22:28:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! We're back with a new animated map. This time we've recreated our popular Steamy Japanese Bathhouse!
Kyle from IADnDMN made a stat block for the Steam Salamander here if you want to include them in a battle scene! Although you could just as easily use this as a chill magical plac...
2021-12-09 11:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, this is the wonderfully atmospheric track to accompany our new Deep Sea Temple! They've kindly provided both looping and non-looping versions for you to play at your game table. :)
This track was composed by the talented Adventure Music, who you can follow on Patreon for more RPG tracks. Please go and check out their work.
2021-12-01 02:05:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is our last map of the month. We designed it to accompany the Kuo Toa Temple variation from our recent Deep Sea Organ pack, but it could work as a stand in for most underwater temple, dungeons or sunken palaces. We also have variations for Kuo Toa idols and shrines in the Open Ocean 2021-12-01 02:05:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome to the Imperial Graveyard! Home to fallen heroes, this is where the legendary knights of the realm are interred. Come pay your respects... or raise great fighters from their slumber.
This is one of those map ideas that has come up again and again but never quite wins a poll, but we wanted to finally design something for it. So if you were one of the people suggesting it, we hope it was what you need for your campaign!
We were joined on this map by the f...
2021-11-30 01:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo far we've released three packs of airships, a passenger dock and just now we released a hangar bay. Although all of those packs have been well recieved we recognize it's quite a niche subject matter in the wide world of RPGs, so, would you like to see more of it or should we cool it for a while?
(regardless of the poll results we plan on releasing a mind flayer nautiloid ship at some point, as that's already a work in progress!)
2021-11-23 02:08:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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After making our fancy airship dock recently we realized we wanted to create a place where airships are created/repaired/stored/dismantled. Something a bit more industrial. So welcome to the Hangar Bay! We've included some little mini airships in the pack, similar to ones we created for the Steampunk Warforged Factory as those have been requested a lot. Oh and due to how the map is designed we've added a PNG of the catwalk, so that you can dock airships however you want an...
2021-11-23 02:07:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, we're looking for some suggestions for which animated maps you'd like us to create next!
Just give us the name of the map (and the variation if you have something other than the original in mind). :)
We no longer have some of the old PSD files for our first maps, especially of a lot of the variations, but we'll do what we can! Right now we're mostly looking to see which of our maps you folks want to see animated.
2021-11-21 15:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! We're back with a new animated map. This time we've animated our Serene Lakeside battlemap. We hope you can use this either as a place for some much needed downtime, a place to visit a hag in that little hut, escape in a hurry across the pier and onto the boats or as a place to set up camp and get ambushed in the middle of the night.
The music in the promo video above is by Will ...
2021-11-19 18:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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Last month we released a free version of our Arcane Clocktower VTT modules along with some maps and that was hugely popular.
So we're releasing our Pirate Tavern VTT modules for free today with some more free maps, just so folks can get a better idea of our maps and what we create. We'll keep this live for a little while so people have a chance to grab the VTT modules and try them out. :)
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Welcome to the Gnome Pawnshop on Badger Hill! (yeah that's right). We had this idea for a Gnome who lives up on this hill, in a cute teapot house, surrounded by badger setts. The gnome will buy your treasures off you whilst you go dungeon delving and their badger companions will take them underground and keep them safe. After several raids on their little storage facility some defensive magic stones were installed, so now the shop can disappear at will. There's so...
2021-11-12 01:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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We had some requests a while back on the Discord for a whale fall map. This is our take on that, but an Aboleth Fall, the old skeleton of a slayed beast. We had the idea that the Aboleth had taken on a ship and got caught in the netting with a heavy chest (probably full of cool pirate loot!) and dragged to the bottom of the seas. Maybe it's time to get your players to fight and/or avenge an an...
2021-10-23 23:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Foundry VTT modules have now moved to the $10+ tiers. To be clear this only affects the Foundry VTT modules and not the regular JPGs or PDFs.
You can still get all the variations as JPGs and printable PDFs at the $5 tier. That won't be changing. If you don't use Foundry VTT this post isn't relevant to you. :)
We announced this decision back in August 2021-10-22 08:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This adventure is brought to you by the collaborative efforts of DMDave, Cze & Peku (that's us!), Paper Forge, Tom Cartos, and 2021-10-20 20:27:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Introduction Hey everyone! The Foundry VTT cont
2021-10-20 19:28:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome to the Chthonic Lighthouse, built by deep dwarves down in the dark seas below the earth. This lighthouse stands on the edge of an immense nethersea. Some say it was abandoned by the dwarves years ago, that they were forced out by fierce storms, spawning krakens or giant fungi, whatever the true story is, the lighthouse now stands here alone, blinking into the night of a starless sky.
For this map we made a ton of variations and also some interiors, so you can...
2021-10-16 21:32:11 +0000 UTC View PostA big thanks to everyone who responded to the boss maps vs dungeons poll. The result was very telling:
So we will definitely be making more dungeon maps in future!
We had a recurring suggestion that we connect some of our current maps to new dungeons. So here's a poll about that! Which of our maps would you like to see extended into a dungeon? (you can vote for as many as you like!)
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Welcome to the Banshee Moor. We wanted to tell a bit of a story with this one, with a collapsed rickety bridge and a carriage plunged into the water. We imagined an angry soul from that carriage haunting this moor. There's a 'A New Day' variation with a fixed bridge, little grave and brighter colours for those of you who want to put the banshee's soul to rest.
We've also included a purpley-grey Shadowlands variation this time as quite a few people were asking for tho...
2021-10-09 23:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post