r/battlemaps

I love the sound of the engine core in the morning! Whether it's a low thrum, or more of a deep throb, every engineer worth their salt is going to have their favourite, even as they work around the clock to make sure the ejectors remain online, install the self-sealing stem bolts, and swap out those ever-fickle isolinear chips. Fully animated and available in two additional variants, with a containment breach in one and a full failure in the other (red alert!), this map will have your players wishing they'd reversed the polarity!  

My maps are hooked up to work with Foundry VTT and Fantasy Grounds.
My maps are available on my patreon and my website.
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Crowds and shouts. Emotions and drama. Monsters and heroes.

Victory - or death.

Classic battlemap created for:

• prison escape - with convenient key placement, dark corners, additional corridors and two main treasure troves, that may contain both PC's items and additional loot.
• arena fights - great opportunity to introduce your party to some more... exotic or interesting monsters without unnecessary complicated reasons for the latter to be there.

Large, open arena with two upper levels for audience and convenient rocks to climb provides opportunity to escape during the show - and wreck mayhem through goblinoid-filled corridors and balconies.

More crafty players may decide to release wild beasts and monsters kept in dedicated cells - and use them as either a cover for escape or an unwilling allies.

There's a treasure room as well, and if your players want to take revenge (perhaps for an enthusiastic use of torture chamber...) - there's a passage leading towards furhter goblinoid corridors and their settlement...

Links:

• 72 DPI maps (grid/gridless, 2 light variants) are available for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/162960125
• 150 DPI maps (grid/gridless, 2 light variants), description and extended gallery is available for free subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/162961911

Supporters (Cartographer level) got access to 300DPI no watermark maps and VTT ready files (roll20, Foundry, UniversalVTT).

Credits and attribution:

Thanks to DA asset creators: DangerWeasel, SAC, smashbear76, DallasRT, itsScottish, swedish.cook and others.

Thanks to sketchfab creators: eb78 and kEam

This map was created by hand, with assets placed carefully together. I don't use generative AI and I did my level best to avoid using AI-generated assets.

In The Starry Throne, a group of level-8 adventurers travels to the Red Desert, interested in rumors about an ancient elven temple buried in the sand. Gadino Veren, a researcher and explorer, claims to have a magic key that might be necessary to open a legendary gate in the elven temple. However, the elves shut that gate forever for a reason…

Know more about the adventure Here.

Hidden along a remote stretch of coastline, this quiet sea cave offers shelter from the outside world. Its calm waters and concealed entrance make it an ideal refuge for smugglers, pirates, and travelers seeking to remain unseen

Perfect for sea adventures, coastal campaigns, and encounters involving pirates and criminals or searching for a hidden treasure

You can get the full resolution files such as animated 4K version, gridded and gridless options on my Patreon — https://www.patreon.com/xundra_maps/posts/smugglers-sea-162435015

Animated Version Preview — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEfYRFPCMXM

With the World Cup in full swing it seemed like the perfect time to release a brand new fantasy stadium battle map!

City Stadium is the first release in my new **Urban Battle Maps** series, inspired by Blood Bowl and built for tournaments, championships, festivals, or all-out fantasy blood sports.

The map has already sparked something unexpected, we've started creating an entire city and a brand new fantasy sport called Regulated Bloodrush or Reggers for short

Any usual rule suggestions for this new blood sport?

Drop your ideas below! The best ones might make it into future maps and lore.

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🗺️ This map is available now on Patreon, along with **1000+ maps**, map variants, and regular new releases.

www.patreon.com/thereclusivecartographer.com

Your support keeps projects like this coming!

Cheers!

George

I got fairly tired of hauling a laptop to the table and fighting screen mirroring every session, so I built my own thing. TableStage is a flashable image for a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, plug the Pi into whatever TV or monitor you have laying on your table. Connect your phone or tablet via a QR code and bob's your uncle, you are in control.

This runs entirely in your browser, there is no separate app download required. Everything runs on your local wifi as well, nothing touches the internet during play.

There's a free trial with no time limit, just some usage caps applied, so you can see for yourself before paying anything. The full license is a one-time purchase of 39€ or your regional equivalent, no subscription required.

TableStage supports static maps and animated (video) maps. Up to 4K60 if they're H.265 encoded, 1080p for H.264. mp4 and mov are supported.

You can upload maps, sort them into collections, categories and tag them, giving you full control of your collection.

TableStage also features:

-Fog of war that can be toggled on and off on the fly. You draw on your phone to reveal or hide areas.

-A grid overlay that supports either hexagonal or square grids and can be customised in size to fit your tv and your system's required spacing for minis, colour, and opacity.

-You can upload and manage music and ambience tracks, either play them during your session as you would with any music player or pin them to individual maps, set autoplay, switch a map and the audio switches with it.

-Connect bluetooth speakers, airplay devices, use your tv speakers or the Pi's audio jack for audio output.

-Customiseable idle screens to set what is on display while you're not showing a map.

-Colour grading overlays to set the mood, from dusk till dawn and a few things in between!

-Animated cloud and fog overlays for static maps.

What TableStage is not:

I deliberately set out not to build yet another VTT system and I have no intention to shift into one. There are no tokens, no online play.

A big thank you goes to Crosshead Studios & Tabletop Audio for letting me use their maps and audio in my showcases.

If you are interested please do have a look at www.tablestage.com

Happy to answer questions here all evening, or morning for that matter.

Made in Inkarnate. It's my first battlemap only did regional maps so far

...​No birds sing in this hollow. The only sound is the unnatural hum of latent magic radiating from the central altar, waiting for the spark of a catalyst, or the blood of the unwary.

Any thoughts?

>"Onward!" The ringleader ordered, quietly but sternly. "Get to the sloop, and stay inconspicuous!"

>As they pushed into the fish market, the roads gave way from the sticky mud to an easier to traverse cobblestone. With cloaks and cart wheels caked in dirt, they pushed on.

>Suddenly, the rear cart froze. The lagging member of the entourage looked back breathlessly at a column of armored guards barreling towards him and his cart full of ill-begotten loot. He failed to notice the ringleader take up his side. Gently, he took the panicked thief's arm and whispered gently "Breathe... Look down. Focus on getting the goods to the dock."

>As the column of guards overtook them, the thieves continued to push on as if they belonged. Their mud-caked cloaks and ragged carts were a camouflage against the truth buried under only a little fabric, the precious statuettes bundled within. As quickly as they had come, the guards passed them by without even a second glance.

>The rattled thief let out a sigh of relief. "I feel faint.." he whispered. "Don't let up just yet," The ringleader replied, helping the cart along. "The sloop is in sight!"

>Then, the worst sound that ever could have fallen on their ears penetrated through the rain and city commotion. "You there... Halt! State your business!" ordered a nearby guard.

>The ringleader barely lifted his cloak for his associates to see the dagger hidden in his belt. "Be ready, and don't hesitate. Push on no matter what happens next!"

Hey all! You know the deal by now, you can check out this map and it's may variations over here!

Enjoy,

Matt

Free Map Friday and this one's a big one. The Sandfall Cave is a 70x30 desert cave battlemap, warm golden dunes giving way to a dark cave mouth that your players are absolutely going to walk into. Made a full video of the whole process so you can watch it come together from nothing. Free to download, system agnostic, no strings. If you like this and want to grab every free map patreon

This is the companion set to my dungeon from yesterday found here. The downward stairs and manhole covers have corresponding stairs and ladders over there.

Link to Gridded versions and one alternative to the street level found here along with the sewer map at a slightly lower quality than the original post, 120ppi instead of 128, to keep it in line with these.

These are all 40x40 at 120ppi.

From left to right starting from the top we have:

The money lender/credit union linked to a pawn shop. Both are fronts for the local thieves guild. I plan on doing another map for their lair below the sewers at a later date.

Small bakery with residence above.

Blacksmith

Local HQ for a trading company

Tenement buildings

Guard house

Tailor and Cobbler with residence above

Magic item/antique shop

Roman style public toilets

Tavern with detached bunkhouse and stable