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Lair of the Elder Brain - Animated Battlemap

Hey everyone!

We're back with our newest animated battlemap, the deep dark lair of the Elder Brain (full of deadly tadpoles). 

The music in the video above was created by Will Savino for his album Music d20: Vol 4. Will has a ton of other music on his bandcamp, spotify and wherever else you get your music. And of course, Will Savino is our partner in our newest project 2021-10-08 23:14:00 +0000 UTC View Post

What type of map would you like more of?

Just to make sure everyone supporting us is happy and getting the sort of content they'd like to see, we thought we'd get some feedback!

We're curious if you'd like to see more:

Epic one-room set piece boss maps (like Tomb of Sand, Dracolich Lair, Eldritch Church, Grand Opera House, Train Station, etc.) 

or

Multi-room dungeon maps (like Necropolis Dungeon, Pseudodragon Lair, Great Library, Thieves Guild Hideout, Drakescale Peak, V...

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Tomb of Sand [28x54]

Last map of the month! This was made to accompany our city Kadhizi from our new project Borough Bound. The in-universe lore is that there's a genie ewer hidden in this ancient tomb that leads to a genie city. This tomb is the resting place of the pharaoh Amunta, although her ghost is also trapped in the genie city. 

Aaaanyway, for more of that lore, check out the Borough Bound PDF document...

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Air and Water by Tabletop RPG Music

Hey everyone!

Ian from Tabletop RPG Music has written this wonderful track to accompany our new Airship Port battlemap! You can listen to a preview of it here or download it in the attachments. On Ian's Patreon you can grab the seamless and hour long looping versions!

I'll let Ian introduce himself for you:

"Need a soundtrack for your adventure? Tabletop RPG Music releases multiple trac...

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Airship Port [84x111]

This map is HUGE.
HUGE
(there's some close up images above so you can get a better look)

We wanted to create this awesome giant space that you could dock a whole bunch of airships at and fight along the gangways and we think we've managed that.

Just like the train station we designed with the unicorn motif, the kraken motif for this map was inspired by Eberron's House Lyrandar. By a weird twist of design it sort of looks like a n...

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Impact Site - Animated Battlemaps

Hey everyone!

We're back with our newest animated battlemap, the burning wreckage of a downed airship and the havoc created in the farmlands below. This is what happens when you give airships to players...

After the poll results it seemed that very few people were using the sound effects that accompanied the animations, so we've decided to leave them out from now on. The music in the video above was created by Will Savino for his album 2021-09-29 20:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Clockwork Dragon Lair - Interior [30x65]

Hey everyone!

This is part 2 of our Clockwork Dragon Lair series. You can get the exterior HERE.

Our idea for this series was an ancient Clockwork Dragon who has tasked themselves with creating the next generation of Clockwork Dragons at their forge deep in the volcanic mountain. This map is the entrance to their main forge and where the dragon eggs are built. Of course it's opulent and...

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Airships Pt. 3 [various]

Hey everyone!

We've been busy this month moving to Portugal, but we've got our desks and internet set up now and we've got lots of content to share with you! We're both pretty exhausted so hopefully you'll excuse how late all this content is. :)

This is a pack of zippy little airships, in wing/engine style and in the Eberron elemental style.

We made these in anticipation of the airship port and airship factory maps we'll be releasing soon. We figured it'd be good to have mor...

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Introducing Borough Bound

Hey everyone!

Some of you probably know this already but we're working on a project called Borough Bound alongside our friends Will Savino and James Nathaniel. Please check it out!

Borough Bound is all about creating fully realized RPG cities for you to drag and drop into your campaigns.

Each city is chockful of maps, music...

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Valda's Spire of Secrets - Free Fifth Edition Expansion

Hey everyone!

Hopefully you all liked the two new maps we released yesterday.

We've got some extra FREE content for you today, from our friend Mike who you'll remember from our Honey, I Shrunk the Party and The Ol’ Silver Serpent Saloon<...

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Weekly Poll #37

Hey everyone! 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 get so many suggestions these days and there's a max amount of poll options, so i'm sorry if your suggestion isn't on here, we're trying to take the ...

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Victorian Greenhouse [various]

Hey everyone!

The last map poll we ran had Fey Botanical Garden as the winner and Overgrown Conservatory as a runner-up, so we figured you were all looking for something plant-y! So here is our Victorian Greenhouse, a verdant botanical conservatory for investigating all sorts of interesting magical plants. Or fighting some errant fey or loose carniverous plants.

We made 21 variations for ...

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Ropebridge Chasm [32x50]

Hey everyone!

Some of you may have already seen it but we created this map for a brand new collaboration with Team Superhydra! You can grab the items, monsters, tokens and adventure here. Check it out!

This map is meant to be a tombolo/isthmus and was inspired by Tintagel in Cornwall. Which is a really cool location to look up if you want to design a clifftop castle for your campaign. View Post

Team Superhydra Returns - Griffon Nest Adventure

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Team SuperHydra Returns!

We've all been so busy that we haven't made a big Team Superhydra release for over a year now! We hope you all enjoy the return of this awesome team of collaborators and all this free content!

This iteration of Dungeons & Lairs is brought to you by the collaborative efforts of DMDave,2021-08-31 15:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Clockwork Dragon Lair - Exterior [25x56]

Hey everyone!

This was the close runner-up to the dragon poll and was beaten by Void Dragon by just a fraction, so we wanted to make sure we covered this theme too!

This is just the Exterior portion of the map. There'll be a forge-like interior section coming hopefully at the beginning of September, but we wanted to set the stage with the lair entrance. 

Our conception of a Clockwork Dragon is an ancient dragon smith, working away over the centuries to perfect ...

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Foundry VTT Update

Hi everyone!

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to respond to the various polls and questionnaires here and on Discord. There was a lot to read but we're super grateful to have such active patrons!

From the first week of October we'll be moving the Foundry VTT files from the $5 tier to the $10 tier. 

Just so everyone is clear on what this means: this only affects the Foundry specific walls/dynamic light files that are available from 2021-08-22 23:50:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Floating Village [34x46]

Hey everyone,

First of all thanks to everyone who responded to the multiple review posts we made yesterday. All your feedback has been super helpful! We're still mulling over ideas and deciding whether or not we want to make changes but of course we'll keep you informed. :)

This is our Floating Village battlemap. We felt it was time to return to the sea theme and dive back in the water. Perfect for any fishing village, pirate village or coral village. Maybe inhabited by koa-toans,...

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VTT Maps Review

Hey everyone, it's been a year since we started providing VTT content here on the patreon so we wanted to gather opinions and guage how best we can improve what we provide.

When we added the Foundry and EncounterPlus maps to the $5 tier last year we really under-estimated the amount of time and effort that goes into them and in hindsight we wish we had added them to the $10 tier. It was meant to be a nice free extra for patrons at that tier but soon became something that lead to a lot o...

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PDF Maps Review

Hey everyone! We're making a series of review polls just to guage opinions on our maps and content. We want to streamline our content and find out what's useful to people and what isn't.

It's been a year since we started providing PDF maps, so let us know if you've used them and if so, how it went. We know that with the pandemic, very few people have had the opportunity to play in person, but let us know if you're planning to use them once games start happening in-person again. :)

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Animated Maps Review

Hey everyone, it has been 6 months since we started making the animated maps and we're looking for opinions on them!

Little poll below to cover a general question about if you've used them or not but we're also wondering what your opinions are on the background sounds and if they're useful or not.

Any suggestions or requests and we can pass them onto the animator we're working with. 

Right now we're planning on doing another 6 months of maps and seeing how useful and we...

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Overgrown Magic Forest - Animated Battlemaps

Hey everyone!

We're back with a new animated map. Check out the preview in the video above! Lots of swaying trees, dappled light, flittering bugs and fairies, falling leaves, crackling flames, the perfect camping spot! Hopefully there's nothing else lurking in the woods...

This was the winner of our first animated map poll! We're working on another map already but we'll be posting a new po...

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dScryb + Czepeku Giveaway

Hey everyone!

We've recently been collaborating with David and Ben, our friends over at dScryb, who make boxed text for rpgs. They write awesome text aids that help DMs with describing NPCs, spells, locations, monsters and most importantly, maps!

For our maps you can hover over different areas and it'll give you some fun flavour text that you can use for inspiration or read out to players. Here's an example:

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Ages of the Vale Pt.3 [27x39]

Hey everyone!

This is the final part of our Ages of the Vale series. (Part 1, Part 2) Again, thanks so much to everyone who told us they were enjoying this series and those that had already swapped out their taverns and home bases for these, which is always amazing to hear!

For this final relea...

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Ages of the Vale Pt.2 [27x39]

Hey everyone!

We're back for part 2 of our Ages of the Vale collection. Thanks so much to everyone who sent us kind comments and messages both here and on Discord about part 1! We're really glad you all liked this concept so much.

So if you haven't yet, please check out part 1! That post will get you up to speed with what this series is all about.

Following on from the devastating ...

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Couatl Temple - Animated Battlemaps

Hey everyone!

We're back with a new animated map. Check out the preview in the video above!

Lots of swimming fish, bobbing lilypads, flowing fountains, crumbling architecture and glowing eyes in this one! And remember, once your party has climbed this epic entrance way that it connects to our 6 floor Couatl Dungeon.

The winner of the last poll was the Overgrown Magic Forest, so we'l...

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Ages of the Vale Pt.1 [27x39]

Oh, there you are!

Come quickly and gather round. Don’t mind your muddy boots. And you can leave that shield by the door. There’s still space at the bar, or come pull up a chair here with us.

There’s plenty of fuel for the fire, so relax and grab a pint.

Oh, so where are we? A simple tavern of course. The sort you might find anywhere along your journey, the sort with a roaring fire, loyal pups by the door and local bards caught mid-song without the right lyrics.

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Dragon Poll #4

Next dragon poll! We're going to keep it to a few at a time but we'll add in more suggestions from the comments each week.

We're actually making the Clockwork Dragon Lair next as it was tied with Void Dragon on the last poll. But we wanted to see what everyone was looking for next!

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The Void Dragon by Ivan Duch

Hey everyone! Ivan Duch composed this awesome track to accompany our new Void Dragon Lair map!

He's giving all Cze and Peku patrons the full Mp3 which you can listen to here and download from the attachments below.

You can get the looping version as well as lots of other great RPG tracks from his patreon HERE. He also has a library of fr...

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Void Dragon Lair [36x54]

Hey everyone!

Void Dragon was the winner of our last dragon poll and here's the result! A big thanks to everyone who gave us hints and links to help us design this lair. This is one HUGE dragon. Depending on the source material it's so big that it could be a moon or a planet. We'll let you be the judge of how massive this space creature is!

In case you're wondering how to integrate this awesome beast into your games, Dagonzo has made a monster stat block called 2021-07-23 21:17:25 +0000 UTC View Post

The Mimic Bag

Hey everyone!

Yesterday Peku doodled this cute idea for a mimic bag item whilst working on our next battlemap.

We weren't expecting anything to come from it but Dagonzo of Dagonzo Adventures made us this awesome little item page for it. 

So here's a fun free item whilst we work on our next map! If you like this and want see moore of Dagonzo's work, check that link above. He's making adventures and e...

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