Post "The Ancient Map Room" by "czepeku" from patreon

Cze and Peku

You mean for a fantasy setting or a sci-fi one? What would the fantasy version of that look like?

Daniel Hubbard

Hello master map makers! I love your work and been using your maps for my D&D games since I discovered you. If I may be so bold I have a idea. You know those elevator's in video games that go up at a 45 degree angle? Would you consider making one of those? While leaving some places on the sides for bad guys to snipe my players Keep the great work up!

Ridge Luther

when you download the image go to rezise image your computer will most likely put it down to what can fit into dnd beyond

Tylor West

Does anyone know how to make the file size smaller to fit into DnD Beyond?

danielaron castaledacastillo

It's beautiful

Dynamic Dungeons

Mapmaking at its finest — true art. 👏

Buck Link

One of my favorites yet!

Taylor M

Uh uh

Ryan Haden

If you go to your Patreon settings and 'Link Discord Account' it should automatically add you to the server.

Lukarion

And hi

Lukarion

How do I get access to the discord server?

evi11y

your going to want to copy the link and post it into the url part of the module adder.

Mago de Ender

hi i´m having trouble with foundry part, when i clink to get the link instead it downloads a module and i can´t put it on foundry

Robert McAnulty

I, myself, have a Patreon called Trongard. I have $1 levels for anyone wanting to support DM's.

Cze and Peku

Sure. :) We can add it to the queue. You can always come onto our Discord and leave suggestions in the #map-suggestions channel there too.

Kurt Evans

Hi - I can't get the message function to work. Any chance you could design a skyship pirate lair in the mountains?

Cze and Peku

Thank you for supporting our work. :)

simon Molnár

Just wanted to say, your maps are incredible. Thank you for making these.

Joe

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Ryan Haden

Hi there! Are you in our discord by any chance? It sounds like you just need walking through the process of getting these working correctly. If you're in the discord, please ping Ryan directly in the VTT Discussion channel and he'll get you sorted!

Martin Futrikanič

HeyLo, somewhat of a fresh member, struggling a bit with the animated foundry ready battlemaps, some have json files, other just open a link for me, none of them are named so the process of even those that are downloadable is quite annoying cause i have to rename each one to the map or make a folder with the map name, is there a way to do it differently? As well as a fix for the links that open on some of the maps?

Cze and Peku

There's a big multifloor magic library: https://www.czepeku.com/great-library/b0-ground-floor-day :)

Vicente Vidal Vidal

do you have a library? thanks for all btw

Cze and Peku

https://www.czepeku.com/colosseum-of-challenges/original-day There's this one. :)

Carlos Jorge

question, we have some Coliseu?

Ryan Haden

Hi Raymond, Head to our Foundry VTT Master Post to grab the pre-prepared modules: https://www.patreon.com/posts/foundry-vtt-post-57634400

Raymond Fuller

Question how do I import the maps into FVT?

Ryan Haden

We already have hundreds Carlos including an Open Oceans pack :) https://www.czepeku.com/search/ocean

Ryan Haden

We generally recommend against this Mike. That would be hundreds of gigabytes in one go and thousands of maps. We tend to advise people to find the ones they need using our website first: https://www.czepeku.com

Carlos Jorge

1 by 1

Carlos Jorge

Is there any chance of us receiving water maps? Like, pirate stuff, for seafaring RPGs. Even an animated map gives water, maybe

Mike Fayad

Is there anywhere that I can just download everything? I have the $10 sub. Or do I need to do it 1 by 1?

Cze and Peku

I think it would make sense to only upload the maps you intend to use. We have thousands in our collection and I doubt you'll need them all! But you could try converting the files to WebP to save size, I think Owlbear can work with that file format.

Carlos Jorge

Hello Cze! Yesterday I became Patreon and I have a question, your maps are about 40GB, and the owlbear can only hold 25 ;-;, do you know how I can increase the limit or decrease the GB size of the images?

Mateus Henriques Buffone

Thank you for the response. Let me just clarify the final doubt. I'm in the Campaign Connoisseur tier but I configured Patreon so I'm charged just once per month. I will not have access to the all the new release content as I'm paying just once per month?

Ryan Haden

Hi Mateus, Our Patreon is pay 'Per Creation' so you're only charged when we release new content. You have access to our entire catalogue at that membership tier as soon as you sign up.

Mateus Henriques Buffone

Hello Cze and Peku! I finally became a Patreon yesterday after acompaning your work for many years. I'm just a bit confused as how your patreon works. The multiple payments per month are to have immediate access to the material and, later, they become available in the Master Post?

Cze and Peku

There's no set timeline on this but we are currently discussing options for this with the Owlbear team! :)

kostasz (Kris)

Hi, do you plan to collaborate with Owlbear Rodeo to import patreon exclusive maps directly (with walls and lightning)? Is there a way to do it other than mark the walls by hand?

Japatronic

The wizard prison ones were my favorite too! I love how weird and zany they are: I use them in places like lich lairs where someone might have made another dimension inside of an object, or something else that's completely crazy

Cze and Peku

Unfortunately not. We release each map as we create them, so each is contained in a separate post. I recommend checking: https://www.czepeku.com/maps and find the maps you need and downloading just those.

Micheal Overton

is there anyway to download the maps all in on go instead of having to spend a long time clicking through everything

Cze and Peku

We had 10-12 parts originally planned. The later ones were getting so crazy that they're taking a lot of planning and might be too weird for like 99% of campaigns, so we're taking a break for now.

Robert Fisher

Hello, I was curious if there were more "Wizard Prison" maps coming? I want to run a campaign with them but I want to make sure all parts are out first.

Giselle

hello I dol

Cze and Peku

Yes.

Gogo M

If I subscribe and later unsub, do I lose the discounted early bird price?

SanctumXIII

I had no idea they offered this! Thanks for dropping the link!!!

Annie Shi

That said, if you're looking to run WOTC adventures with Czepeku's maps, they have several articles on their website detailing which of their maps can be used for which adventures! (https://www.czepeku.com/blog) Most of the earlier adventures have been covered, and more are always in the works.😊Is there an adventure you're especially interested in?

Cze and Peku

None of our maps are remakes of official WotC maps. All of our work is original.

Matias Willison

Hey, is there a way to easily find maps on here that are alternatives/remakes of maps from official WOTC adventure books?

Ryan Haden

We have a few Joshua! We'd recommend our website to help find the maps you're looking for. But yes we will absolutely create more jungle and temple themed battlemaps in the future! https://www.czepeku.com/search/jungle

Joshua Chapman

Howdy! Absolutely love the content you guys create! Has been an amazing gift from one of my players for my campaign. Any jungle or ancient ruin/temple themed maps in the future?

Cze and Peku

We've made a website that makes it very easy to find the maps you want: https://www.czepeku.com/maps we recommend just searching for what you need and downloading it. Not only are there a lot of zips but the collective maps will take up a lot of hard drive space.

Luís (Vellum)

Hello! Firstly, been absolutely LOVING your maps. I just wanted to ask if there was an easier means of downloading everything? I only recently joined, so it's a bit... *daunting* to download each zip file, and then extract each zip file. I figured I might be missing some place I should go to download everything at once. Thank you so much for your time and amazing work!

Cze and Peku

Hey Dion, check this tag on our website: https://www.czepeku.com/search/snow This pack in particular will be helpful to you: https://www.czepeku.com/remote-ice-village/original-day

Cze and Peku

All of the maps are now ingested into Alchemy with correct tagging, descriptions, etc. the Alchemy team is just double checking everything. Currently the goal is to get the codes out on the first week of June. Details are still being ironed out but we're hoping there'll be a bunch of special rewards given out too, like discount codes and free Alchemy content. :)

Thomas

There used to be Alchemy master post similar to Foundry and Encounter+, but I'm unable to find it…

Dion

Hi! I am going to run an arctic campaign soon. Any new snow/ice based maps would be amazing!!

BeeGneiss

Hi Cze and Peku, I've been using Alchemy for a while and was wondering if you have redemption codes for your maps somewhere yet? I'm happy to put them in one by one if they're out there, but I can totally understand wanting to wait until everything is finished and collated before releasing any codes.

Noah Bakker

Would really love an animated one of a snow capped mountain fortress!

Cze and Peku

Which of the $10 files aren't working? There's no animated map for that pack yet. Do you mean the Foundry or EncounterPlus? I've removed the old defunct $10 link on that post. That was pointing to outdated content. The VTT modules are linked elsewhere now.

Dylan J.

Hi Cze and Peku, the 10$ download for The Stranded Casino doesn't appear to work for at least 5 months now: https://www.patreon.com/posts/stranded-casino-29573305 Can you make this available? Unless it's a typo... I don't see any mention of 10$ tier items in that post. Thank you so much!

DM J

Te recomiendo plotear en cualquier centro de impresión grafico que tengas cerca. no debiese ser muy costoso. Pide un papel grueso y mate ojalá, no brillante es mi recomendación.

Japatronic

OOH WAIT WHAT THIS IS AMAZING

Cze and Peku

https://www.czepeku.com/colosseum-of-challenges/original-day Have you seen this map? :)

Japatronic

Hey I would really love a gladiator arena or any type of arena. Are you thinking of making one at some point? :D

Andrew Karstaedt

Thanks for this! Was looking for the same thing, but that was a long scroll, if you can add an anchor to that post to hot-link down there, would be helpful (but maybe not worth the effort :D). Love your work!

Cze and Peku

https://www.czepeku.com/blog/how-to-2 There's instructions on our website here, but we'll be releasing our own large format printed maps on the webstore soon! :)

Nicolas Vellut

Any tips on how to print these amaising map?? Pretty big for a standard printer ^^

Cze and Peku

It's already a work in progress. But it's just taking a long time to get it ready for all the 5000+ maps we've got. But we're actively working on it! :)

Kendra Baird

Hey! are you planning on adding alchemy redemption codes for your maps in the future? I love supporting you guys and I suppose I could manually add all your maps in myself, but it would sure be nice to have it done already :)

Cze and Peku

Unfortunately it's not possible to download them from the site directly. We'd love to add that functionality and we have considered the best way of doing that. Currently on the site though, on any map page, there's a button on the sidebar that says 'get this map on Patreon' which will take you to the post here so you can download it through your subscription.

Felicitas Sehring

Hi there, I have a question, can I only download the maps here from this post or is there a way to get them from your side directly? I really like browsing all your options on https://www.czepeku.com/maps and get creative while looking at different maps, instead of checking each and every pd you But if I want to download them there I would have to pay there again :/

Ryan Haden

Hi Jon! Please don't re-purchase anything! Simply un-check the 'Download pack from bazaar' box when you're copying your install link into the Forge and it should install fine.

Jon irwin

Hi there. It appears that since Foundry VTT has updated, using your VTT-ready map links no longer work there. Instead it asks me to purchase the maps from the Bazaar. I would have no problem doing that, but not when I've already paid here.

Anthony Price

That was it thank you so much!!

Cze and Peku

Are you thinking of our Zen Monastery map? That has both a dragon and a giant fish. You can visually look through all the maps here: https://www.czepeku.com/

Anthony Price

Hey sorry to bother you but I am trying to find a specific map but cant find it. I remember seeing it and I think it was from you. It was a little secluded spot in the woods with a bridge I think and water underneath it. and one of the variants had like a giant fish or dragon or something

Cze and Peku

https://www.patreon.com/posts/foundry-vtt-post-57634400 They're all here.

Zatarra

How can I see foundry maps??

Brian Clymer

I don't know what could be wrong with my account to not allow me to download it. I back at the $10 level :/.

Jon Goranson

Thanks! I looked for something like that and missed it.

Cze and Peku

Have you checked out the Map Ledger? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UOmQ79DwxTtw8Etjcuy9C6b3Vvi0XXRHxKHkd1zK7ZQ/edit#gid=0

Jon Goranson

Do you have a list of your maps and info on them? So, listing them, sizes, animated or not, and connections? For me, it's tough to remember that Medusa's Wake has the corresponding map Temple of the Medusa. Thanks!

Cze and Peku

I've just tried it and it works for me. Have you clicked the direct zip download here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/animated-maps-49184370 If that doesn't work it might be something to do with your account.

Brian Clymer

Overgrown Magic Forest, animated map returns a bad 404 gateway :(

And now I have to join the $5 their too, your work is just too good! I use Encouter+, which is how I first ran across your stuff.

Cze and Peku

It's on this page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ancient-map-room-24806981 About 1/3rd of the way down. It's the second section.

Sqoody7 InVegas

I cant find this "The easiest way to mass download the maps is to head to the section titled 'Direct Zip Download Links by Tier' "

comfyplant

I love your work. Thank you both so much for not only being awesome artist(s), but doing such a wonderful job organizing and sharing everything. Starting from these is really helping me fill in details in my campaign. Looking forward to using these maps for years to come :).

Fabio Cingolani

i tried with the overgrown forest and does work so i think they're all ok now! thanks!

Fabio Cingolani

Hi! Didn't try yet...i downloaded all of your e+ modules more than a week ago so i'm pretty sure they're ok now but i'll let you know

Cze and Peku

Have you checked the post recently? They should all be working! We updated all of them only about a week ago. The modules are made by the E+ team, so there should be any reason for them not to be working. :)

Fabio Cingolani

are you planning to replace the encounterplus modules with non-hevc video files? Right now all the encounterplus modules don't work at all if you're playing on a non-macos environment

Cze and Peku

Yep! We keep this constantly updated.

Nasia Lupini

Hi all, sorry for the dumb question but I am kinda new to patreon, will all the new maps be addeed to this post as they are created?

Cze and Peku

Overgrown Forest link is working fine for me!

James Long

Also, the link to Overgrown Magic Forest is 404

James Long

On a serious note, Griffon Nest is missing above. ;)

Cze and Peku

There isn't! That was just a silly addition for fun. There's a ton of rooms in the same style in our Wizard Tower pack, it also comes with some props too. :)

James Long

Cze and Peku

There are! :) Both are listed at the top and also in the 'dragon series' subheader.

Very Frustrate

I am so shocked to see there is no red or green dragon map!

Cze and Peku

I've sent you an invite via a Patreon message. :)

DungeonCreepers

I've tried Patreon's ways of trouble shooting to connect to Discord and I still can't connect to the Discord server

Cze and Peku

I hadn't thought about it actually but i don't see why not!

DungeonCreepers

Thank you so much for such amazing content we can use to our hearts content! I was wondering if the free bonus maps would get Foundry VTT integration?

Kamylar

Thank you for your hard work :) I'm going to start a DnD 5e Eberron campaign and I especially love the lighting rail and airships map based maps <3 I'm looking forward for your future works! Greetings from germany - stay healthy! :)

Cze and Peku

We just wanted to say thank you for the kind words and for taking the time to say them. Positive words like this really make the effort worth it. :)

Author Oz

I just upgraded to the $5 tier. Let me tell you why: There are plenty of talented map makers on Patreon, but the amount of variety I get per pack with you is outstanding. While the standard is to do the day/night for tier 1, their next tiers are generally the same maps with some of the terrain removed or added, or perhaps a few alternate details or different weather. With your maps, however, you get variations on the entire theme rather then location. I don't feel like I'm looking at the same map in 7 different ways. Instead, I see 7 different maps that can be used for very different locations or planes of existence. Perhaps the best example is the "Impact Site" maps, where for $5 I got a UFO impact for sci-fi games, a boulder or dragon for your vanilla medieval setting, and an airship for something like Spelljammer or a steampunk setting. You don't just span varieties of location, you cover multiple genres with the same map-pack. My personal favorite is the Plague Hospital collection, which despite it's name will actually provide a number of temples, halls, or even extra-dimensional locations that can be utilized for a variety of settings. I don't generally see that with other map makers. In my opinion, the amount of variety for my dollar is exceptional, and I look forward to seeing what you bring us in the future. P.S.: Feel free to use this post as a review or opinion piece in any advertising you wish.

A.Saleh

Hi new patron here, love your work. was wondering if there is a way to download everything at once instead of going through all links, is there like a mega pack ? thanks

Cze and Peku

I'm not sure what you mean, we don't use cross hatching in our maps. Everything is painted though mostly with the standard PS brushes.

DwhyDx

How do you get your cross hatching texture look? Is it a texture on a blend mode or a brush?

Cze and Peku

Hi Sidney, those are only available on Roll20. We haven't added any of our pre-map stuff here.

Sidney Sorrentino

I'm new here and very much interested in those tokens for roll20, do I have to buy them on roll20 market?

Cze and Peku

We're working on getting all our content onto Astral right now. For now they're only available through Roll20.

Deepweb

where can I get the spell tokens? Either print or astral tabletop :) thanks

Aoi Shiba

Just looking at these maps is inspiring me to be a better GM :-) Great attention to detail, amazing art style and unique designs. Keep up the awesome work!

Hannah Hartung

I just joined Patreon and I'm really excited to use your maps in my campaigns! This is awesome. I got the $5 cause I want to send my players dreams of gridless versions of maps as visions and then use a DIFFERENT version for the actual battle! So excited, thank you lots! Congrats on almost $20k per map pack

Cze and Peku

Thanks so much! Thats so kind of you to say so. :) I'm glad all the organization was worth it!

goaskerin

Thank you both for being so incredibly organized, from your google reference doc to posts like this and the additional availability of FVTT/E+ Ready maps. I don't currently use either, but I think that's super cool and amazing to offer. Love your maps and joined Patreon for them, so impressed and inspired by these. Thank you!!

Cze and Peku

In this post the newest are at the top, in the ledger the newest are at the bottom. I guess that's a bit confusing...

Roby Duncan

Question regarding dates of release: are the maps in order? First at the top or the bottom? I didn't see (though may have missed) a date entry in the ledger... is it just the most recent at the top/bottom? Small detail, but super useful. Thanks! -Roby

BeardedTech

Amazing maps my players love them and love exploring them. and they import into roll 20 so easy

Daku

I just realise that doing it off of patron such as Mega or Google Drive to bypass the 200mb limit means people can just share that link with their friends. My apologies for not thinking that through.

Cze and Peku

Thanks so much Timothy! This was lovely to read, I'm so glad you like our work so much. As for lack of uploading, we plan to move from 3 maps per month to 4 soon. :)

Cze and Peku

Same reason we haven't done this for other tiers is that Patreon has a max upload size of 200mb, so we can't put it all into one zip.

Daku

Would you be able to create something like a mega link so $10 patrons can just download everything in a single click? It would save us a lot of time.

Timothy Paul

You guys have the best Patreon layout for D&D maps I have seen thus far! All the map links there and ready to go, the online vault, not to mention the quality of you're maps is top tier! All of the best variations I could dream of, most of them can be stand-alone maps in their own right and 3 a WEEK! the only downside I could ever see with the quality you put into you're maps is a lack of uploading but you upload 3x more than anyone else it's phenomenal! Keep up the amazing work I'll be here waiting eagerly for what comes next!

Cze and Peku

Hi Philip, i'm not sure what you mean? All the map files here can be inserted into Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds or any other VTT you want to use!

Philip

Do we get the roll20/Fantasy Grounds items as part of being a Patron, or is that extra? If we do get it... how? :D

Cze and Peku

Hi Mark, there's an FAQ at the top of this page actually. :) But to answer your question, all the maps come in gridded and non-gridded.

Mark Bedford

Hi, new to Patreon, not sure if there's a FAQ or email creator section... do all of your maps come with grids or do you make non-grid ones for VTT (Roll 20 etc.)?

Cze and Peku

Those are only available on R20/DTRPG, the links are just included for anyone who wants them. Some of the map packs here (Mid Air Dragon Pack and Minotaur Labyrinth, for example) also contain monster tokens.

Cze and Peku

Thanks so much David! There's a new ledger too which i posted a few days ago which should make things even easier.

Zacharia Finch

The monster and spell tokens are extra?

David

This is one of the best resources I have ever seen. Thank you!

Pagemaster_Sivera

Thank you this saves me such a headache!

Cze and Peku

There's no initial charge for signing up, you're only charged when a new map is out. Although if you unsubscribe before a new map is released it will charge you the $5 anyway. I hope that makes sense.

Christopher Von Aschen

So if I do sign up for the $5, It is only 5 and I get all the maps. Then once you create new ones, then I get charged extra? Just signing up is only 5 dollars and I get everything until new maps come out and get charged

Cze and Peku

Hi Christopher, you'll be charged $5 for each *new* map pack we release. There's no charge at all for the backlog of previous maps. You get access to those just from being a patron.

Cze and Peku

We make a map, for example the City Marketplace and it comes with lots of variations, like a night time version, a ghost ship version, a rainy version, etc. those variations combined with the original is a 'map pack'. We release about 3 map packs per month. So if you sign up for the $5 tier, you'll be charged $15 in a month and get all the maps we release that month. Hope that makes sense!

Christopher Von Aschen

What is considered a map pack? I just want to know how much I am getting charged.

Christopher Von Aschen

If you become a patron if I pay 5 bucks, will it charge me 5 bucks for EVERY single map pack or will I just pay the 5 and get all the maps until new ones come out?

Cze and Peku

You're welcome Ivo!

BananaDealer

Thank you!

The Crafty Dice

Ah yes, I see it in the attachments now :D thanks

Cze and Peku

Yeah, that's a bit messy but they go to the same post, both links are there. Originally the Temple Ziggurat was just hosted on GDrive and linked to in the 'thank you' page but we wanted to move everything over here. I could have made a new post for it but as it's our oldest map I decided to append it to the oldest post here. Perhaps not the most elegant solution.

The Crafty Dice

I think the Temple Ziggurat link is wrong :) Takes me to the Beach Landing. I was a bit confused for a second there.

Cze and Peku

Hi Jo, those are in the $5 tier for the Abandoned Mine Entrance. I think i may go back and make those into zip files for easier downloading as the file names are a bit confusing.