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Secret Sailor Lair [30x53]

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Welcome to the Secret Sailor Lair! We envisioned this as a secret base for pirates, sailors, fisherfolk and various ne'er'do'wells of the high seas. You can take it over and run it yourself, store your treasure and repair your ship (or airship in some of the variations) and use it to explore the seas!

This map is very excitingly a three-way tie between our other two projects Czepeku Scenes ...

Yggdrasil Branch Overlook [30x50]

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This is part 3 of our Yggdrasil series. Part 1 was the Village. Part 2 was the Trunk. This branch leads from the south path in the Trunk interior. It leads out to this Branch overlooking the village below. The villagers have set up a lift to take supplies up and down from the tree but u...

Elven City Centre [36x59]

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Welcome to the Elven City Centre! Waaaay back in the dark ages of the pre-Covid era we made the City Marketplace map. We think of this as our generic human-settlement city centre. But we never really explored what the city centres of other species would look like. And so that's a new series we've decided to make! They're going to mostly be central plazas, markets, a representation of...

Yggdrasil Trunk [30x58]

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This is the next part of our Yggrasil series, continuing on from Yggdrasil Village. This is the hollow interior of Yggdrasil itself. The settlers in the village have built rickety walkways up the interior of the tree. 

In the next map we'll explore some branches overlooking the village below and in the final part we'll take the top path up through the follow to the sac...

Yggdrasil Village [38x64]

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This is the first part of a new series we're making. This is Yggdrasil, the world tree. Some enterprising folks have decided to build a village around its base. They do fishing here, for eels and secrets and trinkets the gods left when they departed.

The villagers have built a path up into Yggrasil's hollow trunk, which is where part 2 will continue. Then we'll go up to the canopy.

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Annis Hag Lair - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Annis Hag Lair battlemap! Now with creaking trees, swaying bodies, billowing sand, magical smoke and more.

The video above contains the track "The Woods Reject You" from Music d20: Vol. 5. Please check out the link for more great tracks!

If you're...

Wizard Vault [29x58]

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This is the first part of a new series: The Wizard Bank. Part 1 is the public foyer area. It is super opulent with massive glass windows, fancy emerald carpets and immense jade statues.

Queue up here and sign a lot of paper work and pay your gold and maybe they'll let you store your most valuable items in the magically protected vaults.

Although the 'vault' door is visible, in our headcanon it's a decoy. Criminals believe the vault door can be opened a...

Alchemy RPG Kickstarter - JUST LAUNCHED

We've posted about this a lot, both here and on our socials but here's an announcement to say: THE KICKSTARTER JUST LAUNCHED!

Me and Peku joined the Alchemy team just over a year ago now and we've been helping the team to get to this point. And we're really really excited to show you V1 of Alchemy. 

We really do believe it has the ability to...

Medieval Jail [41x60]

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A jail... as a battlemap! People said it wasn’t possible for us to do some typical dungeons, well here we go. :3 Hopefully like with the Dark Woods Edge this satisfies some more common areas your party might find themselves in (because let’s face it, they probably should be sent to jail).

We laid this one out a bit like a practical dungeon and a bit like a maze, that way you can do some fun sneaking around and escaping the guards. Or maybe use it as a place to fi...

Cave Temple [29x55]

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We’re happy to finally return to making some East Asian inspired maps. It’s been a while! 

This map is inspired by Buddhist rock hewn cave temples, as well as mandalas and holy mountains. The character depicted in the statue is left ambiguous so that its easier for you to fit into whatever mythology your world has. 

Hopefully this map will make a nice training retreat for your monk or possibly a good place for a spiritual awakening or an encounter...

Gentle Village Greengrocer

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This is the latest in our starter Peaceful Village series. This time we’ve made a local greengrocer with all sorts of local fruit and veg but also eggs and fish. And anything else you might need for making a local pie or summer scone. 

Of course all this food attracts unwanted pests so the store has a little retinue of mouser cats to keep a look out. ;) We’ve also made some surrounding homes, a village pump well and a little community garden.

We're pic...

Wonderful Wizard Waterfall - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Wonderful Wizard Waterfall battlemap! Now with flying birds, gushing waterfall, swaying trees, wind passing through the meadows, and more!

The video above contains the track "Ark Seeker" from Music d20: Vol. 5. Please check out the link for more great...

Palace Guard Chambers [40x58]

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This is the final part (probably) of our Royal Palace series. Kind of hard to believe we made the first part in December 2019, which now feels like the distant past!

Here are the other parts:

Royal Throne Room 

Outer Court 

2023-04-07 17:48:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Flooded Fey Ruins [29x58]

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This week we designed a nice serene green ruin for your players to explore. Something peaceful to go with the wonderful spring weather we're having. :) Explore strange statues, flooded walkways, mysterious trees and more. Aaaand try not to get dragged into the depths by nefarious spirits.

We made a ton of variations for this map, 30 in total! Including some desert and sky variations as we know lots of you run campaigns in those biomes.

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2023-03-26 14:10:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Slum District [38x59]

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This theme was a winner on a recent poll, so if you voted for 'Slum District' hopefully this is the sort of thing you were looking for. This is definitely a big contrast from all the idyllic pastoral village scenes we've been making recently!

Lots of room in this map for running along rooftops or dodgy deals in the backalleys. It also serves as the dangerous part of town where you can get your hands on illict goods and weapons or maybe make a dubious deal with a stra...

Mycelial Gate [21x66]

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We designed this map to accompany our newest Borough Bound city, Ithivellia!

In Ithivellia there's a fungal portal connecting the fae world and the material plane. So we wanted to design a colour, coloruful passage between them. Full of fungi fruit and air dense with spores. There's lots of hiding sp...

War Room Exterior [29x53]

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This is the follow up to our recent War Room Interior map! This is designed as if you follow the stone steps leading from the top corners of that map.

We're going to let you interpret this map as you like, either as an outcropping on a clifftop or perhaps the helm of a giant organic air-warship. 

Either way it's designed to be a meeting place for the generals and ...

Czepeku Scenes - Launch Day! 40% Off Final Call!

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Just a quick final message on this to say that today, finally, we're launching Czepeku Scenes! We said we'd run the 40% off promo tier until launch day. So here's the final call. If you're interested you can sign up here!

In case you've somehow missed all the other mentions of it, Czepeku Scenes is going ...

Map Poll #39

New map poll for March!

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 options, so i'm sorry if your suggestion isn't on...

Dark Woods Edge [42x62]

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'Dark Woods Edge' did well in the last poll we ran and we thought it was a fun concept. We've tried to recreate the feeling of something like Merry and Pippin arriving at Fangorn Forest, with a stark difference between the safe meadowlands and the dangerous, gnarled and tangled forest.

We wanted the forest section to be maze-like with lots of spots for ambushes and entrances in for pincer attacks by spiders, goblins, bandits, etc.

Hopefully this will make a goo...

Elven Magitech Portal - Animated Battlemap

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This month we've animated our Elven Magitech Portal battlemap! Now with glowy crystals, glowing runes, moving Elven machines and most importantly a beautiful warping portal!

We hope you use this map to send your players to some very beautiful fey world!

Speaking of which...

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The music is, as always by the talented Will Savino! The track is "Vela'...

A New Campaign

If you were starting a new campaign, which of these feels most compelling to you as a player?

#1. Mage Academy

master the magical arts / unravel mysteries / go on cute adventures

#2. Grand War

engage in tactics and espionage / go on diplomatic missions / seize victory

#3. Marooned in an Unknown World

survive against the odds / fend off monsters / begin a new civilization

Palace Inner Court [40x58]

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This is the next part in our Palace series. We started with the Royal Throne Room and decided to build out the rest of the palace around it. The next part was the Palace Outer Court which covered the moat, the stables, the gatehouse and the areas for the retainers and riffraff to go.

Tranquil Apiary [29x40]

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This is the next map in our series of starter village buildings, for those of you building new campaigns or maybe just want to take your players somewhere a little less grim for some downtime! 

Come to the tranquil apiary to get some delicious honey or try the crisp apples and breathe in the sweet lavender air. Defend it against nefarious monsters who would seek to disturb the peace or maybe find an elixer to cure the bees of their magical ailments! :)

2023-02-24 01:17:57 +0000 UTC View Post

War Room Interior [29x58]

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Welcome to the War Room! A place for generals to plan their battles and strategies. Or... a place for meddling adventurers to disturb the planning sessions and change the course of history!

We've made a bunch of versions for different purposes. If you have a specific idea for the look of your world and a map for it, we recommend cutting/cropping it out as a circle and overlaying it in the centre map circle.

This is the interior section of the war rooms...

Jungle Temple Entrance [33x46] (Collaboration with Borough Bound & Tom Cartos)

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We've named this map 'Jungle Temple Entrance' to keep it generic and findable in future, we imagine it'll be useful in a lot of jungle and meso-american inspired camapaigns.

Buuuut it was actually designed as the entrance to Axziga’s Lair, a dragon in the awesome new Borough Bound setting, Zahuatil Ruins!

Scroll down for some previews of the accompanying Bor...

Dwarven Throne Hall - Animated Map

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This month we've animated our Dwarven Throne Hall battlemap! The gears spin and buckle, the lava flows and crackles, the beautiful crystal thrones shine with resplendent light. We're really happy with how this turned out, we think it really captures the magic and awe-inspiring grandeur of the dwarves and captures the heat of the lava.

The music is, as always by the talented ...

The Iron Wharf [31x47]

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Another steampunk-ish map for you all. And some ships in there for those of you in seafaring campaigns in need of a new harbour to check out. We imagined this as some general purpose goods harbour inspired by some northern European cities. Lots of bridges and roofs and pipes to jump around and run across and of course in the centre of it a bizarre metallic foreign ship that has also come to port for some unknown reason, perhaps it is stocking up on goods or here as a spy s...

Spider Queen Throne [29x58]

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The architecture in this map was designed to match our Drow Manor battlemaps. It's been a few years since we released that pack and we wanted to revisit it but create a more epic play space for a final encounter. So here is the Spider Queen Throne! For fighting Drow, Driders and Giant Spiders! Or if you just want an epic audience with Lolth herself!

This pack also accompanie...

Modular Caves [various]

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People ask us all the time to make modular maps and it's not really our thing, we generally like making grand set pieces... but we thought we'd at least try it as so many of you asked! So here's our attempt at some modular caves.

There's basic caves, spider nests, monster lairs, forges, lava, crystals, mines, ancient ruins, mystical springs and more. There's 145 rooms altogether. Rooms have between 1 and 4 exits which align so that you can order them how you like. Th...