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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 us...
2023-05-31 22:51:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is part 3 of our Yggdrasil series. Part 1 was the Village. Part 2 was the Trunk. T...
2023-05-29 00:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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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...
2023-05-25 11:14:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 wa...
2023-05-19 01:05:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 s...
2023-05-10 01:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 ...
2023-05-09 23:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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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'...
2023-04-30 18:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 j...
2023-04-25 14:03:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 b...
2023-04-24 16:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 ...
2023-04-20 13:41:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 attr...
2023-04-19 15:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 vi...
2023-04-14 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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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:
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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 nefari...
2023-03-26 14:10:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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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...
2023-03-23 18:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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We designed this map to accompany our newest Borough Bound city, Ithivellia!
In Ithivellia there's a ...
2023-03-20 15:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 int...
2023-03-14 14:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 i...
2023-03-13 15:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostNew 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 ro...
2023-03-10 03:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 tangle...
2023-03-10 03:50:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 ...
2023-03-09 03:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostIf 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 diplom...
2023-02-27 03:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 2023-02-26 15:10:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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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...
2023-02-24 01:17:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 spe...
2023-02-23 02:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 d...
2023-02-16 09:10:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 ...
2023-02-10 17:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 t...
2023-02-09 18:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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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...
2023-01-25 13:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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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, monste...
2023-01-25 10:20:08 +0000 UTC View Post