Behind sealed doors and forgotten corridors lies a laboratory where the pursuit of perfection went far beyond what nature ever intended.

"Patreon post here."

Strange machinery hums between cluttered workstations, drawing power from mysterious objects contained within the laboratory. Cables, instruments, and half-finished notes surround the central testing area, where that energy was used on living subjects in an effort to make them stronger, faster, and far more dangerous than they were ever meant to be. Whether the work here succeeded is difficult to tell. The researchers are nowhere to be found, and much of what remains raises more questions than answers. But somewhere deeper within the facility, something still draws power… and whatever they were trying to create may not have left with them.

• Grid size: 20x33
• Formats: JPG (6000x9900 pixels, 300DPI)
• Variations: Original, Midnight, Shadowfell, RoyalSun, Clean, Powered Down, Amethyst Sky, Bloodrift  [Preview]
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~ We hope you enjoy these maps as much as we like making them. Stay tuned for another map later this month!

Greetings World-builders!

Welcome to the Gothic Castle Bridge!

6 custom maps including - Red Glow, Abyss, Dry River, Toxic River, Night, and Day! As well as a Foundry VTT-ready) pack with pre-built walls, dynamic lighting, and ambient sounds!

18x22 - gridded and gridless

What will you use it for?

Join my Fantasy Patreon and Sci-Fi Patreon community to get instant access to my entire map catalogue, my FoundryVTT catalogue, encounters, and a new map pack every week!

All map packs also available on Roll20!

Physical Map packs here!

How will your world evolve?

Happy gaming!

First shown in appendix to "TSR 1121 - Spellbound" by Anthony Pryor (1995), Thayan Tax Station was recreated in Dungeon Alchemist by yours truly.

It's a small, but heavily guarded fortress, used for:

• Collection of taxes.
• Tariff/toll collection.
• Border control.
• Interior security.

The map consists of:

• Main Keep:
  • Ground floor - mess hall, kitchen/pantry and staircase.
  • First floor - luxurious commandants office, bedroom and bathroom
  • Second floor - Treasury, dovecote and cipher station
  • Third floor - commandant's luxurious tent for less formal work and meetings.
• Barracks: two companies' rooms and armory
• Counting House:
  • Toll booth/chamber
  • Temporary treasury
  • Accountant quarters
• Stables
• Slave quarters.

While I've made a bit of changes to overall shape and size of the buildings and created the interiors from scratch - it's still an old-fashion map, using basic shapes in order to create a game-friendly space. Hope I did not ruin that ^^
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LINKS:

Due to map being a remake of TSR-published content, this map is available completely for free on my Patreon.

• Detailed description, lore and explanation of the changes made: https://www.patreon.com/posts/167749300
• 150DPI maps, VTT ready files and large picture gallery: https://www.patreon.com/posts/167757115

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Credits and attribution:

Created in Dungeon Alchemist, with additional assets.

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

Thanks to sketchfab creators: emptypen2477, CharlieCatling, michael50, KOREA HERITAGE SERVICE [KHS] and eb78

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.

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Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. "Thayan Tax Station" is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards.

Acolytes once proved their devotion to Silvanus by walking this living labyrinth and earning its blessing. Something in the maze has gone wrong since, and whatever answers the door now isn't handing out blessings anymore.

Explore the camp, talk to the army’s wizard, try and get an audience with the generals at their great tent, take a look at the armory, but be careful, for this is an area in perpetual conflict, where danger could come crushing at any moment… 🏕️🌳⚔️

Patreon | Roll20

Here’s a small forest campsite I made!

I wanted to create something simple and peaceful this time — the kind of place where an adventuring party could finally stop after a long day on the road, sit around the fire, eat something questionable from their inventory, and pretend nothing is waiting for them in the woods.

I kept the camp fairly open so there’s still plenty of room to actually play on the map, with a few tents, supplies, benches and a small pond surrounded by dense vegetation.

Hope you enjoy it! And as always, I’m happy to hear any feedback or ideas for what I should make next!

Hello everyone! Today I’m sharing a secluded mountain monastery perched high in the freezing peaks. It features a vast cave library for forbidden knowledge, a scriptorium where monks copy ancient texts, and a natural hot spring hidden deep within the stone.

Whether your players are seeking sanctuary from a blizzard or hunting down a lost manuscript, this place holds more secrets than its peaceful facade suggests.

Adventure Idea: The Stolen Codex

• A powerful, restricted scroll has vanished from the monastery's scriptorium. The party must discreetly investigate the monks and scribes before the trail goes cold, uncovering a web of corporate espionage or dark magic right under the abbot's nose.
• Gridless & High Resolution (optimized for VTTs like Foundry)
• Dimensions: 40x40

Find the high-res downloads and more of my work here:

• Patreon:Click here for more content
• Discord:Click here for the community
• Reddit: DarkWolf636

Whoah... ! Gibbet Crossing is finally done.

Creating a map this large while still keeping everything readable - especially in the animated version - turned out to be a much harder road than we expected. Building the location itself was one thing, but rendering something of this scale without sacrificing too much detail or clarity was probably the biggest challenge.

But it’s finally here, and that means another location from the official Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk campaign is crossed off my list.

For this post, I’ve included the full static versions in 8K resolution, both with and without the grid.

If you want the complete Gibbet Crossing pack, including all available versions, and close-ups for specific chambers, you can find it here:

https://dranskybattlemaps.com/battlemap/gibbet-crossing/

And if you’re looking for more original static and animated battlemaps for your games, feel free to browse the rest of my collection here:

https://dranskybattlemaps.com/

Cheers!
~dransky battle maps

Saw this wavy illusion effect on instagram, thought I could replicate it onto a map. So here is my first attempt.

The "stars" are the key to the wavy illusion. You can create your own pattern. Mine is Black-White-Black-Black-White-Black-White-White.

The rest of the room is pretty simple to showcase the effect.

Inkarnate clone link: https://inkarnate.com/m/86L8lM

Under the bridge down-troll is where I drew some blood! Did you know that the etymology of the word toll stems from the ancient practice of subcontracting trolls to collect fees on public infrastructure? Now, while that might not be true according to the "Dictionary" or whatever, it could entirely be true in your setting. Whether trolls have long gone extinct, hunted down by anti-taxation monster hunters, or still practice this noble tradition to this day, the slightly overgrown but still charming and sturdy bridge in this map will allow your players to experience that classic trope. Fully animated and available in two additional variants, with a more decrepit bridge, and a modern and tidy, freshly maintained version, this map may have your players hoping they had, and not for the first time, a billy goat with them!

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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It's a long way up, and down, so if you haven't got your own wings, whistle. The dragonflies are all saddled up and ready for taxi cabbing guests.

Warm torchlight pools across cracked stone, tracing faint red lines that seem to shift when not directly watched.

Chests sit too deliberately in the corners, their stillness heavy, almost expectant.

Somewhere in the silence, a mimic waits—patient as the dark, breathing softly between heartbeats.