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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't added below, let us know in the comments or our community Discord!
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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, over at Borough Bound we're designing a magic school! It's our biggest borough yet and filled with lots of cool conten...
2023-10-17 20:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 could your crew find here? Or what curses could they unleash?!
We really hope your party enjoy exploring this one! Hopefully they manage to claim some long lost treas...
2023-10-11 23:39:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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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" from Music d20: Vol. 3 by the talented Will Savino. Please check out the l...
2023-09-30 20:41:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 with a dragon, its final moments finished with a spear through the neck. We wanted to make it seem a bit more magical and vivid than a regular fossil. We hope you like i...
2023-09-28 20:37:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 slaughter, raid this restaurant, set it all on fire and take your revenge for all the slain monsters. It's what mother nature would want. <3
We've set this map ...
2023-09-26 21:55:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 the landfall of some weird aquatic monsters.
Enjoy!
P.S. there is a ton of variations so hopefully there's something in there for you no matter where y...
2023-09-22 22:38:45 +0000 UTC View PostHey 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 maps in a related series now have a page on our website. Thanks to Dan and Emily for creating that. So you can now easily find all of the Starter Vill...
2023-09-19 19:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 noticed that we called this map 'Exterior' because there'll be an interior to the ship too, so your party can explore it and get some long lost treasure. We'll be releasing tha...
2023-09-15 22:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 was tricky to get right, I think we've managed a good mix of realistic and playable. We also made a ton of variations for it, so hopefully it'll come in handy in a range of...
2023-09-06 21:41:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 old Creation Forge beacon being a bit like a totem pole or village sign. Rallying around the symbols of old.
Below is the matching scene from our 2023-08-26 13:57:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 and winding road and who knows what'll be at the other end...
We hope you enjoy this map. It's the first map from a new artist we're training. So everyone say hell...
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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 think (in the comments or on our Discord) and whether you'd like an interior for it.
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2023-08-24 14:53:23 +0000 UTC
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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 of Yggdrasil, we imagined it was so big and powerful it was almost like a root in itself. We figured you'd reach this area through the caves or basement in the the Villag...
2023-08-23 07:17:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 Music d20: Vol. 2 Please check out the link for more great tracks!
Oh and a reminder that...
2023-08-11 05:56:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 defending the school at night from monsters in the trees.
This school is the latest map in our peaceful village series. We got a lot of messages and comments after t...
2023-08-09 00:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostNew 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 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 interestin...
2023-08-02 05:45:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 would make for a great target for a villain, lest the dam bursts and the villages downstream all get washed away. You can use the cannons to take our monsters that are fight...
2023-07-31 02:03:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 crashed to earth?
We've also added a transparent version with just the skeleton for those of you that asked! 2023-07-29 14:27:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 to create buildings and areas that would be useful for a party of level 0 or 1 characters. And also as a homebase.
Maybe for this map you'd use it to keep and rais...
2023-07-26 06:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 contains the track "Dreams of Cinnamon" off of Music d20: Multidimensi...
2023-07-26 06:33:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is the next in our City Centre series. In case you missed it, we already covered the Elven City Centre and Goblin City Centre.
We imagined this like a little forge and farm town somewhere up in the mountains for hill dwarves to live. Their homes are dug into the hillsides and th...
2023-07-20 07:06:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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 rearing meadowlands and a modern bridge cutting through, a bit like the vast Victorian structures such as Welland Viaduct that span the English countryside. Just like wit...
2023-07-15 03:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 large to fit in the map so we instead decided to depict something more akin to the Gjøa, a...
2023-06-30 09:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 bank as well as the lower administrative levels and the lowest level containing some very special items in the bank wizard's personal collection.
We hope you enjoy thi...
2023-06-30 09:41:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 Moment of Focus (Atmosphere)" from Music d20: Atmospheres. Please check o...
2023-06-28 05:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Hopefully you've seen the recent Goblin City Centre and Elven City Centre map packs. We're planning on continuing that series, so we'd like to know which species you want us to cover the most.
Most of the list below are either official 5e/Pathfinder species or ones that Cze could rem...
2023-06-21 05:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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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, welcome to the Goblin City Centre. This is the next in our series of maps showing how we imagine the core of different species' cities looking. This is a walled goblin ...
2023-06-21 04:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is the 4th and final (maybe we could do the roots?) part of our Yggdrasil series. Get the rest here:
This is where we im...
2023-06-17 04:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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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: