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The Cathedral Mimic

Deep in the forest, there is a lone cathedral whose pillars resemble bones and whose gothic arches bear a sick resemblance to a living body. This cathedral mimic attracts pilgrims and travelers seeking refuge, only to be devoured later that day.

Welcome to the finale of horror-themed battlemaps that I made for October! This map pack not only features 7 phases brought to you but also standalone variants across different biomes.

Download the first three phases for free here.

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The Lighthouse Mimic

This lone lighthouse is built on the edge of a storm-battered isle. The keepers, isolated from the world, have slowly descended into madness.

Strange occurrences such as mutated monsters emerging from the sea, hallucinations at nighttime, and other incidents haunt this cursed lighthouse.

Some say this lighthouse is a living, breathing organism that slowly inflicts its inhabitants with madness before devouring them. 

This lighthouse has an original version which looks "normal" from the outside. The lighthouse then changes to its ghostly or mimic form, trapping the players and creating a sense of dread. Each map includes a night variant as well. This map pack also includes tokens of each floor.

Enjoy and Happy Haunting!

Download this map for free here.

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There is a lone shipwreck on an unmarked location of Anchor Island, a ship which bears the wounds of mutiny and murder. The restless souls of the sailors haunt this shipwreck, along with numerous creatures that have taken residence in the hold.

This ship has a total of 3 floors (4 if we count the quarterdecks and cabins). The cabins once housed the captain, first mate, and many of the ship's officers. The lower deck held the ship's crew and served as a common area for eating. A kitchen to the rear provided food for the crew. The cargo hold held many crates, and barrels, along with a small jail cell for mutineers and vagabonds.

This map pack includes a fully-functional "ship at sea," if you want your players to sail this ship before crashing it.

Download the map for free here.

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High above the crashing waves lies a well-defended castle that is built into the side of a mountain. This castle serves as the home of Captain Flint and his rag tag army of buccaneers and outlaws!

This fortress features high stone walls reinforced with two towers and plenty of cannons to scan the horizon. A large mountain provides natural protection from the north and west.

A small hamlet is set up within the castle, with a mountain spring providing fresh water. More buildings are in the process of being built, as this castle serves as a refuge for many convicts and brigands.

You can download the high-resolution map for free here.

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This is a collection of 20 of my most popular ship maps! These maps represent many hours of work which I have been able to do full-time since the start of 2024. Consider this my way of giving back the positivity and support I’ve received in this community since the beginning of my mapmaking career!

Download all 20 maps for free here.

If you enjoy my work then please consider supporting me on Patreon. Supporters will get access to all of my watermark-free maps, gridded variants, and tokens in a VTT-friendly file format.

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An Old Fort on a Hill

The concept of forts has always amazed me as a child. The idea of people building large citadels from which they can fight behind (or hide).

Part of why I love mapmaking is I now get to build my own fortresses and citadels!

This map is part of my Forest Encounters pack, which features 25 different scenarios that fit most campaigns.

Want to see my other maps? Check out my table of contents.

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Elven Castle

The castle is protected by a ring of arcane magic, which can deflect most weapons and negate magic. This has allowed the relatively small garrison to defend the castle against numerous armies.

The Elven Castles pack consists of my interpretations of the castles built by elves and their various subraces such as drow, wood elves, etc. It also includes magical, winter, and ruined variants that allows you to present a changing environment to your players.

You can download the base map for free here.

Check out my entire map collection here.

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Winter Cemetery

This is a place where the dead are forever enclosed in snow and ice. According to legend, when the snow finally melts, the dead will rise again…

You can check out this map pack here, along with unique variants of this map.

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The Apsaras were created for one purpose— to entertain the gods. But after their creation, many Apsaras fell in love with their forms and wished to leave the heavens to live with each other.

As a punishment, the gods sent them naked and hungry into the mortal world, and cursed them with a short lifespan, shorter than the humans. The Apsaras would watch as their beautiful bodies became crooked and ugly with age, and eventually succumbed to death. However, one good thing came out of this. They gained the ability to reproduce with humans, and leave their mark of beauty as an imprint upon the population.

None of the original exiled Apsaras remain, but their blood flows in the veins of many humans to this day. A human marked by an Apsara may show signs such as great beauty, a tall frame, and a graceful demeanor. However, they also bear a fragment of the Apsara’s curse, and have a shorter-than-normal lifespan.

Due to this unnerving loss of life, many Half-Apsaras are known to be unparalleled creators, artists, and scholars. They work tirelessly in their craft, seeming to make most of the life they’ve been given. Some Half-Apsaras dedicate their lives to pleasure and hedonism, seeking to enjoy all the pleasures of life before their deaths. Perhaps you are an optimist, who lives in the present moment and seeks to leave your mark upon the world. Or perhaps you see the futility of your efforts, instead preferring to retire to a quiet life of comfort until Yamaraj calls your name.

The descendants of the Apsaras are one of 8 playable races in Devabhumi.

Preorder Devabhumi now.

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Hastinapur, a capital city in my Ancient India 5e setting!

Welcome to the ancient Indian city of Hastinapur, the city over which the legendary Mahabharata war was fought. It is a place where the gods rode through the streets, where millions of inhabitants lived, where travelers and merchants from all over Devabhumi came to visit.

Now, this city is but a shadow of what it used to be prior to the war, hosting a population of a hundred thousand. Hastinapur has two layers of circular walls dividing the city into three sections. Different city districts host temples, wealthy nobles, barracks, markets, and much more. A large central palace is divided into two sections, one for the Raja and his family, and one for the royal advisors. The sacred Devapani river runs right through the middle of the city, and serves as a place of pilgrimage for the people of the surrounding countryside.

This city is part of my Devabhumi book, a D&D 5e and Pathfinder campaign setting inspired by Ancient India. This book includes over 200 pages of lore, new races, magic items, monsters, and much more. You can pre-order the digital copy here.

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Pharaoh’s Tomb

After a long journey through the scorching desert sands, you have finally arrived at the rumored Pharaoh's Tomb. Now begins the real challenge!

This map pack depicts a intricate catacomb underneath a pyramid, inspired by the pyramids of Ancient Egypt. This pyramid has a main entrance to the south and a secret entrance to the north. There are a total of three floors to this dungeon. The third and final floor holds the tomb of the Pharaoh, surrounded by tombs of their companions.

Check out the map pack here.

Check out my entire map collection here.

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A commissioned map I made for Ruins of Ordane, a 5e adventure where you explore a ruined city of an advanced civilization that met its doom: with a touch of Barrier Peaks meets Call of Cthulhu.

The Ruins of Ordane is an OSR and 5E one-shot (or sandbox) for characters of levels 6-10. Elements of the adventure hearken back to Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and Call of Cthulhu, but injected with a bit of weird and whimsy, ala Jack Vance.

This 28+ page adventure will include:

- 13+ encounter locations within and below the ancient, ruined city of Ordane.

- 5+ brand-new monsters, including the elder sentry and primal shoggoth.

- 9+ new magical items, including the death orb and urn of Katir.

- Numerous Charts and Tables, to help ensure the party has an opportunity to unearth useful information, including:

- 8+ Random Encounters while exploring the city

- 5+ Ordanian Artifacts to discover, including the inferno blaster and hypnosis cube!

Check out the Kickstarter here. Only one day left to back!

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Elven Tree Loft

The wood elves of this village are self-sufficient, and live united by a common creed to protect their homeland, at whatever cost. These forest-dwellers may serve as valuable allies...if you manage to convince them of your cause.

This Elven Tree Loft has three entrances with stairs leading into hollowed-out tree trunks, with bridges connecting to other living spaces that have been constructed on top of trees. Rectangular platforms decked with crossbows have been propped up at various points to provide protection to this settlement.

These maps come with day/night versions and a ruined variant.

You can download the high-res map for free here.

Check out my entire map archive here.

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Rumble in the Jungle - Something enormous is charging through the canopy, bulldozing trees and damaging the tree fort. Will the players be able to stop it before it escapes, leaving a path of destruction?

Hello everyone, welcome to my newest phased Battlemap! It comes in 8 phases, which depict a tree fort being sieged and destroyed by something that moves underneath.

This can be a monster, magical effect, or whatever you want it to be! Prepare your players for a dynamic encounter that features shaking platforms, falling bridges, and holes that give way!

You can download all 8 phases for free here.

Check out my entire map archive here.

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2 days left to back Devabhumi, a campaign setting inspired by Ancient India!

Devabhumi is a high fantasy TTRPG setting inspired by the history and epics of Ancient India. This setting features:

- 100+ pages of lore

- A karma mechanic

- 6 new races

- 20+ backgrounds and feats

- And much more!

There is such a treasure trove of untapped stories, monsters, and legends in Indian Culture, which can provide fresh and unique content for your campaigns.

Check out the Kickstarter here.

We’ve previewed some art below.

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The Abandoned Library, a place that once held the great tomes of old is now a ruin of rubble.

Even knowledge, with its seemingly unending power, is helpless before the wheel of time.

This is a remake of an older battlemap I made. I decided to revisit it and brush up on the shadows and lighting.

You can download the watermark-free map here.

Find my entire map archive here.

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Something of great evil has occurred, to turn this one-beautiful place into a place abandoned even by the rats and ravens. What evil lies here…?

This is one of my older maps, a Ruined Farmstead. The first version is actually a variant to the second, ruined one.

This map pack is available on my Patreon, in gridded/gridless versions.

You can also feel free to download this map from Tumblr and use it. The grid size is 40x40. Enjoy!