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Village Bakery [30x43]

Hey everyone!

Welcome to the Village Bakery, this is where you can get all your delicious baguettes, buns and other baked goods. 

This is the penultimate map from the Starter Village series. I feel like we've been working on this series for ages! After this we've got a farmhouse for you and we think that's it unless you think there's some specific village building we've missed! We're considering making a city series next, detailing butchers, jails, clockshops, etc. that would...

Ancient Tech Treasury [27x67]

Hey everyone!

Ancient Tech Treasury won one of the latest polls we ran, and this is our concept for it. A bit of a classic dungeon set up, with some caves, ruins and a bit of magical technology at the pinnacle.

The party exploring this treasury dungeon have found a blow in vault door but have another 2 to go through. Maybe these are locked by puzzles, keys or magical spells. We've left it vague for you!

We wanted to use water as the mechanical power source here, as if ancien...

Hell's Tax Office - Animated Battlemap

Hey everyone!

This month we've animated our Hell's Tax Office battlemap! Pencil pushing demons toil away deep in the bowels of the Nine Hells. The red rubber stamp of doom awaits the unworthy whilst the taskmaster looms overhead, judging all of those dead PC's who await their chance to live once more.

This is one of our most popular maps ever and our personal favourite, so we're really glad to see it come to life!

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Wizard Prison Part 4 [38x61]

Hey everyone!

This is part 4 of the Wizard Prison series. After stepping out from the Strange Cube from part 3, your body twists and warps from the warped spatial dimensions. What was once a giant cube of titanic proportions is now something so small you can peer around it.

Around you is a spiked rock, floating in the abyss, a purple glow streaks the sky. On all sides giant hands scratch at the rock, crumbling away at it and other fingers spear through the rock at random.

Ah...

Grand Cathedral Crypt [64x102]

Hey everyone!

Here's the follow up to our Grand Cathedral Interior. This crypt is accessible via the stone spiral staircase on the west transept. You might notice there's two spiral staircases, but only one on the ground floor. We put that in as some vestigal architecture that has since been blocked up... although maybe it goes to a hidden reliquary? We might make that in future. ;)

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Grand Cathedral Interior [42x90]

Hey everyone!

When we brought out our Grand Cathedral map we had a ton of requests to make an interior. Well here it is, we hope you like it!

Due to the all the window space this is actually a huge battlemap. There's lots of pillars to battle around, pews to jump over, a choir and music section to bust up and a holy altar to defend/desecrate.

There's also a little spiral stone stairs...

Czepeku 2024 Big Updates!

Hey everyone! Now that it's a new year we wanted to keep you up to date with what we're working on and what's going on in 2024. There's lots of big news! Thank you all for being patrons and supporting us and our work, it really means the world to us. <3

Czepeku Fantasy

We're currently running a 2024-01-15 15:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Motte and Bailey Castle [42x59]

Hey everyone!

This has been a long requested map, for several years at least, but never actually won a poll, so we thought it was time to finally make it. A perfect map if you're in an early medieval village and a siege is about to break out!

We tried to bring a lot of life to this area, with animals and birds, a resident heron, and the willow trees, so even if it's not about to be invaded, maybe you can use this for something nicer like a heist or a shopping spree, or even your h...

Village Hunting Guild [30x48]

Hey everyone!

This is the newest in our peaceful village series. We've only got a few left now we think, a bakery, a village doctor and a farmhouse. :)

But what's this one about? Well, it's a hunting guild! The village is surrounded by miles and miles of fields and forests on all sides, and an untold number of nefarious monsters and beasts haunt the countryside. And someone needs to keep them in check and hunt the ones that are causing trouble. No more ambushes on itinerant monks ...

Shogun's Castle Interior [33x27]

Imperial Graveyard - Animated Battlemap

Hey everyone!

This month we've animated our Imperial Graveyard battlemap! Sweeping clouds, bubbling fountains, flowing streams, dancing butterflies, swimming fish and beautiful radiating light adorns this peaceful place.

The music in the video above is by the amazingly talented Will Savino. Please check out th...

Hidden Witch's Hut [29x46]

Hey everyone!

Come down to the woods, between the brook and the trees, and you might just find a witch's hut hidden in the glade! Whether you need children eating, frogs seducing or potions making, this is the place to go.

This is the latest addition to our peaceful village series. We imagine this hidden in the woods on the outskirts of the village. Often visited by the villagers to cure ailment...

Czepeku NPC/Monster Tokens

Hey everyone! We're exploring new ideas for 2024. :)

We've had lots of requests for tokens to go along with our maps. So we've been thinking of making those for characters, NPCs and monsters. They would be portrait style (not top down) and designed specfically to suit our map style.

So our question is: 

Instead of a 5th map each month, would you be happy with a pack of character/monster tokens instead?

Foundry VTT Versions

Hi Foundry users!

We're thinking of moving up to V11 with our Foundry Modules, but we wanted to just ask you all first since once we make that choice, the newer modules will only work in V11 or newer.

So please let us know: what Foundry VTT version are you currently using?

Magical Snowglobe [53x42]

Hey everyone!

Someone suggested anidea a long looooong while back that we make a map inside of a snowglobe. We thought that'd be a perfect map to make as a holiday celebration, so here it is!

We thought it'd be fun if your players were caught in a snow storm or maybe just drunk at some weird tavern and then woke up here. How do they escape back to the real world? We'll leave that up to you (or come brain storm on the community Discord!). Like with our 2023-12-18 08:18:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Wizard Prison Part 3 [40x49]

Hey everyone!

Welcome to part 3 of our Wizard Prison! Like we said in the previous posts, this series is something Cze has had in his head for a long time and this map especially is super exciting to release to you. We've had requests for making Escher style maps for years, so we hope you like this! This is inspired by Escher's 'Other World'.

Also quick shout out ...

Fey Tavern [29x58]

Hey everyone!

This is the first in a new series we're starting. :) We'll be making taverns for various species/races/backgrounds. Here's the Fey Tavern! We imagined this as being within a tree hollow for tiny folks or those shrunk down by magic. But it could also be a regular sized tavern with massive bugs and flowers in the feywilds.

We'll be running a poll soon to see which species you'd like us to cover. We have an idea for a kind of heavy metal demon tavern that we'll be makin...

Which animated video format do you use?

Hey everyone! This is just a quick poll for our $10 supporters.

For those of you who use our animated maps, which of the 4 files do you use? 

We've been looking at the quality of the FHD files zoomed in and we think it might be worth removing those and only releasing the 4k versions. This will help us cut down on rendering and upload time.

Let us know which of the files you use most in the poll below. :)

Thanks as ever for being patrons!

Shogun's Castle Exterior [55x129]

Map Remixing Contest 3

Hey everyone!

Long term patrons of ours will remember that we ran two map remixing contests way back in 2020. We've been meaning to run another but somehow 3 years have passed in the meantime!

The idea is simple: take two or more of our maps and remake them into a new map!

That's it! The rest of this post is just more details. :)

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Want to see the previous entries? Here's 2023-11-23 02:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Court of Justice - Animated Battlemap

Hey everyone!

This month we've animated our Court of Justice battlemap! Light streaming in the windows, papers billowing in the breeze, flickering flames, curtains swaying. It's time to save your players from going to jail!

The music in the video above is "In the Court of Anise and Lavender" from Music d20: Vol. 4<...

Sewer Tunnels [32x52]

Hey everyone!

They said it would never happen. That it couldn't be done. Well here it is, finally, a sewers map! Only took us 5 years.

This is intended to be the underneath of the Thieves Guild Hideout map. On a recent poll you said you'd like to see the underneath of it, so here's how we imagined it. The crane area in the bottom left of this map lines up with this area in t...

Map Poll #42

New map poll for November!

You can vote for as many options as you like.

If you're in the Master Cartographer tier or above and have suggestions for the next poll come join the discussion in the Map Suggestions room on our community Discord! We often get a lot of map ideas from there which get turned straight into maps if we think they're interesting.

We get so many suggestions these days and there's a max amount of poll options, so i'm sorry if your suggesti...

Monster Genealogy Lab [20x51]

Hey everyone!

So excited to show you this map. This idea has been cooking in Cze's head for a while now and Aotray did a great job bringing it to life.

We see this as a continuation of our Archaeological Dig map we released recently. This is where all those unearthed fossils go, to be turned into research specimens go, to bestudied and added to the great tree of ancestors. Tracing back ...

Gnome City Centre [30x61]

Hey everyone!

Welcome to our little Gnome home. :) Part of the City Centre series. We want a cozy little place full of plants, fungi and magic crystals for the Gnomes to inhabit.

Gnomes in 5e are about 3ft tall and this map should suit them but you could always use this for tiiiiny little people and say those are regular sized mushrooms instead and have your players shrink down to meet them.

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Get this week's maps using the links below:

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Wizard Prison Part 2 [30x42]

Hey everyone!

This is part 2 of our Wizard Prison series. Get part 1 here!

You've stepped through the portal at the end of the world and it brought you... here. Within a tower with a staircase of bones.

The Tower is guarded by gargoyles. Their bodies flicker between stone and flesh as you catch them out of the corner of your vision. They flitter unnervingly. Their claws ar...

Monster Fighting Pit [29x59]

Hey everyone!

This is the follow up to our Monster Hunter Restaurant map. We imagined this as a subterranean level where the cruel owners bet on monsters fighting for their lives (and then served them to guests upstairs).

One of the monsters is the clear winner, dominating all others. Let us know which one you think it is!

We designed the map so that it could be used both with the restaurant and a...

Wizard Prison Part 1 [37x60]

Hey everyone!

This is the first part of a new 6-part Wizard Prison series. Cze's had this idea in his head for a few years now and it felt like the right time to tackle it!

We wanted to design somewhere that the most dangerous wizards in the vast multiverse are kept. The sort of mages that even high security magical prisons aren't able to hold.

We'll be releasing 1 each month. We've designed them so each also works as its own standalone map.

This is the outer approach ...

Mangrove Forest [34x51]

Hey everyone!

Like the recent Cliffside Beach map, we wanted to make another focusing on a mostly wild location. For this one we chose a mangrove forest. This particular map is inspired by a series of photos of the Sundarbans.  There's a lot of little animals hiding around the map, so see if you can find them all. :)

Within the context of a mangrove forest the seasonal variations don't make much ...

Abyssal Fall - Animated Battlemap

Hey everyone!

This month we've animated our Abyssal Fall battlemap! Now with the volcano vents, floating motes and pulsating creatures of the deep.

The video above contains the track "The Fathomless (Atmosphere)" from Music d20: Atmospheres by the amazingly talented Will Savino. Please check out the link ...