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Hell's Tax Office - Process Gif

We get a lot of questions about how our maps are made so here's a step by step of how we made the most recent map.1. Rough lines2. Clean lines3. Flats4. Highlights and Shadows5. Shading6. Lighting effectsThis is our general process for all of our maps.We hope this helps you on your way to making your own great maps!We're always available on the Discord if you have any questions.

Hell's Tax Office [21x37]

Welcome to Hell!Miau. :3 We're back with a new battlemap: Hell Tax's Office.We imagined this art deco bureaucracy-scape filled with fervent pencil pushing demons deep in the bowels of the Nine Hells. Let Charon ferry you to this unhallowed place and have your deeds challenged against the weight of a feather. The red rubber stamp of doom awaits all those unworthy. This is a last chance of repentence for all dead PCs who seek another chance...

Rain, Lightning, Thunder

Collaboration with DM DaveHey everyone, our friend (and awesome homebrew writer) DM Dave has created this 5th edition side trek adventure for 20th level parties. This adventure uses a brand new variation from our Mountaintop Altar map pack.All patrons can get the new map (grab the zip below) and adventure for free. We hope this tides you over in these dull quarantined days. :)I'll let Dave take it from here:Rain, Lightning, Thunder - New 20th...

Midnight in the Ashen Grove

Collaboration with DM DaveHey everyone, our friend (and adventure writer extraordinaire) DM Dave has created this awesome 5th edition side trek adventure for 1st level parties. This adventure uses a variation from our Serene Lakeside map packIf you haven't checked out DM Dave's work please go take a look here! He's currently 65 days into his monster-a-day series!I'll let Dave take it from here:The Hag's LairHags are wicked fey...

Coral Throne [29x44]

Hey everyone, this is the final map of the month! We've had so many requests in the past for different underwater maps and decided this was the time to do it!Hopefully this will come in handy for all sorts of underwater adventures whether your party is facing up against Merfolk, Merrow, Sahuagin, Kuo-Toa, Tritons, Marids or more. This can be used as a fitting battle space for the big showdown, against the lords of the deep or a strike from an...

All Aboard the Lightning Rail [5x14]

Hey everyone! Here's the long awaited Lightning Rail map!We made 12 train cars altogether with alternate versions of some of those, like an empty version of the cargo car so you can fill it with whatever treasure your party wants to steal...In the image at the top we've put together some ideas for different train cars you might want to use for getting across Eberron (or wherever else they may take you). The cars themselves are modular so ...

[Team Superhydra] The Skeleton Key: New 2nd-Level Collaboration with 2 Guest Creators!

You Survived the Crash! Now What?After crash landing on an uncharted island, what's there to do but explore? Set your sights on the unknown and discover what mysteries await you in this second installment of the Titan's Heir series of adventures!DMDave wrote this adventure and writes content just like it, including feats, classes, races, and more daily for 5th edition! He is also the write for Broadsword Magazine, a monthly print magazine...

PSA: Download Links

Recently we've received several comments about broken download links on the map posts (often json or missing file errors) but when we've asked other patrons to check the links for us they seem to be working, so we're not sure where the issue lies. But in case this is happening to you, use the links below to go to the master post for your tier and directly download the zip files there.$1 Tier Download Links$3 Tier Download Links$5+ Tie...

Serene Lakeside [21x32]

Hey everyone! We wanted to make something a little bit serene and natural between to cap off this month of maps. Its our hope that this map will serve you in a lot of scenarios just like the recent Magic Forest map.During the next few weeks we'll be back with a new collaborative release with Team Superhydra, as well as Hell's Tax Office, the Lightning Rail and more, including a new collaboration with our friend Zhillustrator (who is curre...

Flight of the Predator!

A high-flying and fun 1st-level adventure!Your party finds itself trapped on board the Predator, an airship filled to the brim with fearsome beasts, monstrosities, and constructs, not to mention the other people on board! Help save the day and avert catastrophe in this first part of an ongoing series of collaborative releases to bring characters from 1st level onward!DMDave wrote this adventure and writes content just like it, including feats, cl...

Airships! [36x48]

Hey everyone! We're back already with another set of maps! This week we made a whole set of different airships for you to use, including some classic steampunk blimps, the Elemental Airships of Eberron as well as something a bit inter-planar.Directly after this post goes up we're releasing a new collaborative 1st level 5e adventure using these maps. It is set in the world of Omeria and is the first of many in a continuing saga we'll b...

Weekly Poll #26

As always, if you're in the Master Cartographer tier or above and haveany suggestions for the next poll leave them in the comments below orcome join the discussion in the Map Suggestionsroom on our community Discord!We've removed the Lightning Rail from the poll as we'd like to make it anyway and had to leave off some of last week's suggestions due to so many new ones (there's a poll size limit unfortunately!)

Overgrown Magic Forest [27x41]

Hey everyone!Here's the Overgrown Magic Forest, which won the last poll. We hope you like filling this serene place full of deadly monsters!We made 26 variations in total! Some are subtle changes, like mushrooms, ponds, fireflies, some are seasonal changes and some are big set piece variations in case you're running multiple sessions across the same forest and want to keep surprising your players.There's been a lot of discussion on th...

Knotside City Streets

Hopefully with the recent Tarrasque release you've got plenty of maps to keep you busy with this New Year! But in case you wanted a town for that Tarrasque to crush, we thought it was about time to release all of our City Maps here.There's 12 buildings in total, all with at least one ground flooor and roof level and some with upper levels and basements.Each map comes with a night time, rainy and snowy variation too!As some of you were pat...

Behold the Tarrasque!

Happy Holidays!As a special gift over the holiday season we contacted 20 battlemap makers, 2 miniature makers, 2 composers, 1 magic item creator, 1 monster maker and 1 adventure writer to bring you a giant, terrifying, full formed Tarrasque for you party to take on! Here's what you'll get, for free, as thanks for being Patrons:Inside the Belly of the BeastA guargantuan 123x40 grid battlemap within the Tarrasque itself! Dungeon crawl throu...

Weekly Poll #25

As always, if you're in the Master Cartographer tier or above and haveany suggestions for the next poll leave them in the comments below orcome join the discussion in the Map Suggestionsroom on our community Discord!

Thieves Guild Hideout [28x34]

Hey everyone. Here's the Thieves Guild Hideout that you voted for!We decided to continue the city style we started with on the City Market Place and the City Rooftop Chase that way you can add this into any of the same campaigns you're running.Cze was reading The City in Mind recently and came across this passage:"Neither sunlight nor fresh air could penetrate the miserable dwellings. [...] The interior courtyards of the old hotels in...

Campaign Maps 3 - Master Post

This is a master post for all the Campaign Maps we made in the style above. Use each of the links below to download that week's zip file! Each zip file contains a hex, square and girdless version as well as a blank version of the map for you to include your own names.Week 1: Ramstooth PointWeek 2: The Northern GripWeek 3: The Golden PassWeek 4: Breinburn CaolWeek 5: Leaksea and the IslesWeek 6: The Western SpitWeek 7: The Long ClawWeek 8: Tro...

Campaign Maps 2 - Master Post

This is a master post for all the Campaign Maps we made in the style above. Use the link in the attachments to download all 10 of these maps in one zip file. These maps use a square grid.

Campaign Maps 1 - Master Post

This is a master post for all the Campaign Maps we made in the style above. Use the link in the attachments to download all 10 of the maps with both new and old styles available. These maps use a square grid.

Weekly Poll #24

As always, if you're in the Master Cartographer tier or above and haveany suggestions for the next poll leave them in the comments below orcome join the discussion in the Map Suggestionsroom on the Discord!

Royal Throne Room $10 Rewards

Hey everyone, here's the campaign files for this week's maps. You canget them all in the zip attached below.The image below is a preview of what'sin the zip file. The zip contains a hex, square grid and ungridded version as well as a version without labels in case you want to add your own.Here's this week's campaign map, Ice Wick End:--Here's the last map in its rightful place (top left) as the last map in this world build...

Royal Throne Room [17x48]

First map of the new month! Here's the Royal Throne Room. Thanks for the great map suggestion! We wanted to go for something opulent and baroque. You can fit this right in with your grand ballrooms and other monarchical extravagances!Royal Throne Room $1 RewardsRoyal Throne Room $3 RewardsRoyal Throne Room $5 RewardsHere's the line up for this week! We made 14 variations all in all!

City Chase $10 Rewards

Hey everyone, here's the campaign files for this week's maps. You canget them all in the zip attached below.The image below is a preview of what'sin the zip file. The zip contains a hex, square grid and ungridded version as well as a version without labels in case you want to add your own.Here's this week's campaign map, the Mercuria Gulf:--We've got one more campaign map to release and then this project will be finished, ...

Hand of the Eight - $10 Rewards

For those who haven't seen it yet, I created the map above for our recent Couatl adventure. We've decided to expand it and continue using it as a world for our upcoming collaborations.DMDave has been releasing content like crazy and has this awesome campagin set in the same universe. So we we're releasing it as a bonus for all our $10+ tier patrons. Enjoy!P.S. the world is called Omeria and you'll be seeing more of it soon. After ...

Couatl Dungeon $10 Rewards

Hey everyone, here's the campaign files for this week's maps. You canget them all in the zip attached below.The image below is a preview of what'sin the zip file. The zip contains a hex, square grid and ungridded version as well as a version without labels in case you want to add your own.Here's this week's campaign map, the Eyrie Stones:

Patreon - Discord Suggestions

Hey everyone!We're coming up to the end of the year and we plan to make some changes to our official Czepeku Discord for the new year.We're looking for any suggestions you can throw at us! New ideas for channels or events or bots or anything else you'd like to see. Especially if there's a reason you haven't joined in the discussion over there.We'd also like to work on getting patrons together running games. Even better if ...

#01 Boss Map Poll

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions for our next boss map!We've kept the suggestions to official DnD monsters for now but we might expand on ideas later, but respecting IPs is something we need to be careful of.We'll be running and releasing these $10 tier exclusive polls periodically whenever we hit a new Patreon goal. Thanks for all your support! :)

Temple of the Couatl $10 Rewards

Hey everyone, here's the campaign files for this week's maps. You canget them all in the zip attached below.The image below is a preview of what'sin the zip file. The zip contains a hex, square grid and ungridded version as well as a version without labels in case you want to add your own.Here's this week's campaign map, the Yuiri Peninsula:--I will be posting the remaining 3 maps over the next few days thus completing this wo...

Weekly Poll #23

As always, 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 Suggestionsroom on the Discord!