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Alpine Greysteps Village
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A quiet village battlemap in the snowy mountain peaks. Stay a while & find out just how much actually happens under the cover of the snow…By popular request, this little village is based off the statue-ridden Greysteps from the Obojima setting! The original is meant to be awfully peaceful, but to be frank, this is a battlemap. You’re not using these for peacetime encounters, are you? Spring some wendigos & cultists on your PCs. They deserve it.ThoughtsYou expe...
Lantern Festival Street
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A capital city’s main streets house hawkers by the hundreds as well as your players’ next battle! Perfect for when someone gets denied entry & decides violence is the only solution.ThoughtsAssassins can creep up on the construction bridges, or slip into buildings to disappear from sight.The gate can serve as the entrance to a fortress, palace, or city gate!ContentsLantern Festival: A city lit with a warm red festival glow! All those candles are probably a fire...
January Map Poll
Greetings, gamemasters. This poll is for what map packs get assembled in the new year! The rules are as follows:Vote for as many entries as you want.The top results will be prioritized for drawing in January.Ties will be broken via roll of the dice.The poll will close on the 5th. Get your vote in before then!
Ancient Ruins Village
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A village built atop ancient ruins! Nobody’s dared open the vault that sits in the village square … and your players might have to have a few fights to keep it that way — or to avert it!ThoughtsThe main → ritual → laser → open variants can be used as a sequence, if you’re into phased plans.ContentsRuins Village: The ruins village square in full color.Beach: A tropical village whose central area is flooded!Desert: The village has been built on stone, ...
Ocean Temple
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!Drag your players under the sea for a change! Hidden temples & enemies hide just below the waves, waiting for foolish adventurers to stumble onto their territory.ThoughtsBy popular request, loosely inspired by FFXIV’s Shisui Temple. You could stuff an octopus-mimic-thing in here. (I have never played FFXIV. I just watched a few quick dungeon walkthroughs, haha.)Listen. You don’t need walkways. You’re underwater, you can swim. But you could constrain somethin...
Urban Cemetery
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!An old town cemetery map for an urban encounter with the city’s local cultists — or a ghost — necromancer? Whatever the case!ThoughtsIf the dead are restless, perhaps impose a penalty of sorts for standing next to the gravestones. Damage over time? Save or be grabbed?The temple’s balcony provides a good place for a violent incursion.This map’s southern & north-east streets can connect directly to the Modular Japanese Alleys & Narrow Streets set!On the Bl...
December Map Poll
Greetings, gamemasters. This poll is for what map packs get assembled in December! The rules are as follows:Vote for as many entries as you want.The top results will be prioritized for drawing in December.Ties will be broken via roll of the dice.I've also re-added some of the most popular options/suggestions from previous polls that haven't been drawn yet.The poll will close on the 10th. Get your vote in before then!
Cliff Beach Encounters
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A rocky cliff beach battlemap around a lagoon, whirlpool, shrine, or other strange hazards, fit for encounters with strange beasts & youkai in all kinds of biomes … whether that be while camping away from the ship, climbing through the vast floating-island spirit realm, fighting a water deity in its home shrine or staring down a demon at the edge of the blood sea.ThoughtsThrow a deep-water tunnel connection that links to the bottom of the lagoon. Hide a dungeon ...
Dungeondraft Overhaul v1.2 out now & 33% off
Greetings, gamemasters—I've pushed a new update for the Dungeondraft Overhaul to Itch.io, and put the pack on sale for Itch's Black Friday sale! Everyone who already has the pack can download the new update for free from Itch.Patron accessAll DnDungeon Lords can download the new 1.2 update for free from the asset pack's page on the website!New FeaturesNew signage & flags for streets & samurai clansBones & skeletal wrecks for large corpses & other monstrous thingsSome thicker rope paths in white & brown plus new flag path colorsGho...
Oni Mountain Kabuki Castle
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A castle-dungeon filled with hidden magic & a theatre-themed throne! An eccentric lord of the land has summoned the players to his court, where iron gloves wait behind velvet fists! Can they uncover the secrets behind the theatrics? Or is his depravity known across the land, in need of putting down?ThoughtsOne might treat the underworld gate as being an alternative entrance to the castle or even an escape from the underworld, if your players have access to the und...
Modular Asian Village
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!Build a rural village to burn! A set of grassy road tiles & village decor plus building interiors & a pre-made village square for combat in custom rural hamlets.ContentsVillage Road Tileset: A full set of 8×8, 8×16, and 16×16 grass & road tiles for assembling village baseplates or any general road.Town Decor & Roofs Set: Buildings, rice paddies, trees, bushes & decor for assembling modular village environments.Pre-made Village Square: A pre-made map of a grassy...
City Market Street & Youkai Parade
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A vibrant Asian city market buzzing with hawkers & pick-pockets, hiding your players’ next fight! Toss your opponents off the bridge or scale the rooftops to sabotage the watchtower sentries, or wait until the new moon for the infamous Parade of One Thousand Demons!ThoughtsThe musician’s square provides a good central place for the outbreak of an initial fight.The watchtowers’ sentries may object to a fight taking place … or may have been replaced (or brib...
November Map Poll
Greetings, gamemasters! This poll is for what map packs get assembled in November, based on Lords' submissions! The rules are as follows:Vote for as many entries as you want.The top results will be prioritized for drawing in November.Ties will be broken via roll of the dice.The poll will close on the 5th. Get your vote in before then!
Taoist Forest Temple
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A secluded temple battlemap in the woods to house a confrontation with a master & his handful of disciples! Who seeks the wisdom of the priests? Or seeks to end it?The living quarters here are sparse, but it’s all you’ll need if you’re dedicated to immortality. Resting over a mile from the nearest village provides a separation from earthly affairs.ThoughtsThe balconies give a good place to fire upon trespassers from the bridge’s direction, but intruders co...
Palace Throne Room
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!An opulent celestial throne room, built for grand combats & encounters with the most powerful figures in the realm. It’s fine if your players haven’t finished plotting when they arrive, since the carpet walk alone will give them plenty of time to think.ThoughtsWindows are a valid method of both attack & escape.The inner chamber may be protected; cripple the pool artifacts to disable it!ContentsImperial Throne: Imperial reds, golds & purples grace this majestic...
Martial Arts Tournament Arena
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!This martial arts arena is built for duels, combat, sparring sessions or tournaments, with a field large enough to host epic battles or a dozen ranking matches! But is the opponent going to fight fair?I was tempted at first to make this “martial arts arena” battlemap into a temple, but I already did a Palace Courtyard & it felt too similar, so I thought better of it & made a stage in the city streets. Host your battles in front of the roaring crowd! Bring on t...
Prison Mountain Dungeon
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!Secure cells & a kung fu master-proof turtle-shell chamber keeps your realm’s prisoners safely at bay in this prison battlemap … until the PCs show up!“Asian flair” for a prison proved a bit tricky. In the end, I resolved to re-watch Kung Fu Panda 1. I think the inspiration — and clear usage case — is obvious.ThoughtsLet’s say the prisoner that inevitably breaks free of the main vault can summon/create illusionary clones of himself who have all of hi...
October Map Poll
Greetings, gamemasters! This poll is for what map packs get assembled in October. The rules are as follows:Vote for as many entries as you want.The top results will be prioritized for drawing in October.Ties will be broken via roll of the dice.The poll will close on the 8th. Get your vote in before then!
Sealed Ritual Barrier Gate
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!Greetings, gamemasters. I'm back a bit early! Happy almost-October. Have a kick-off while I get the poll suggestions box up.A gigantic barrier gate battlemap sitting between life & death! The party’s life & death, specifically, because this is a lethal final showdown! Doesn’t matter whether it’s in the midst of the lone & level sands of the Gobi or high above the land on a mountain or in the air.ThoughtsHide fire elementals inside the burning braziers on...
Mountain Pass Ruins
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!An ancient crumbling temple commands a narrow alpine pass! Few use this route & fewer still recommend it, as the perils of the pass itself are well-known, let alone the native inhabitants…ThoughtsVertical combat zones give you some clear sightlines running from top to bottom, if foes are positioned at the uppermost platform.Mix asymmetrically mobile (flying/climbing) foes in along with ground troops — Baby roc-mounted warriors?ContentsAlpine: A grassy, verdant...
Notice: No charge for September (Break)
Morning, gamemasters!I'm pausing subscriptions starting on September 1st for 1 month, as I'm taking a brief pause to focus on a personal project, & won't be making new releases until October.Annual members (thank you!) will have their membership extended by one month.There'll be a couple more releases in August (including the map released alongside this announcement), so stay tuned!—Saki
Fortified Tibetan Farm House
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A fortified farmhouse battlemap, drawn from Tibetan architecture & based on the climate of the cold nomadic steppes! Here is where the richest of the local land-lords oversees their fields from, inside an ancestral home built up over generations. It may not look like much, but compared to the stone cottage neighbors, this luxurious manor is a veritable baron’s keep, and can keep out any raiders that may come past!Which is why you, as a GM, have the raiders burn ...
Japanese Village Foundry & Forge
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A forge battle map inspired by traditional Japanese foundries, set up for a confrontation at the heart of the local industry! Workers slave away on huge bellows that fill a clay foundation with oxygen, boiling ironsand into the raw metals for the kingdom’s industry — who would seek to disrupt this?It was actually really hard to find clear references for the structure of these forges during my research. The real-world ones were built with clay & broken apart af...
Forest Bridge (Remastered)
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A sturdy wooden bridge over the town’s river is always a good place to be held up by corrupt guardsmen, ambushes, kappa, trolls, or revolutionaries. Whether forest or farmlands, this map pack should help you out.This is yet another remaster of a Miscellanea Maps original!ThoughtsThis pack was originally based on the Old North Bridge of Boston fame — chosen in part because back in 2021 I had just played through Fallout 4 again & it was Independence Day at the t...
August Map Poll!
This poll is for what map packs get assembled in August! The rules are as follows:Vote for as many entries as you want.The top results will be prioritized for drawing in August.Ties will be broken via roll of the dice.Since there were relatively few map suggestions this month, I've added several of my own (marked with (S))! In the event of a tie, I will default to patron concepts.The poll will close in one week. Get your vote in before then!
Hot Springs Onsen Bathhouse
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A relaxing mountainside bathhouse battlemap full of narrow winding passages, rocks, pools & carefully-maintained shrubbery for someone to make a mess out of! Alternatives feature a bizarre basalt underworld & a natural hot springs largely free from commercial intervention.ThoughtsThe bathhouse pools are carefully divided into three sections — originally intended to be male, mixed, & female. Use or ignore as desired!Yes, I know the map name is triply redundant (d...
River Island Fortress
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A riverine Chinese-inspired fortress battlemap for defending trade routes, guarding river crossings, collecting customs fees & holding ransom any local hostages! No matter whether in a local city or on the frontier, a sturdy wall & defense-in-depth will protect the Emperor’s interests … & his local commander.ThoughtsThe intention was that the north stone bridge extends across a river; trade might pass between the two outer courtyards of the castle, with the fo...
Glacier (Remastered)
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A frozen mountain glacier cliffside map to do battle on! What great beast lives in the icy water-carved cave? What swoops down from above to interfere? Variants add hot springs & sand-pits for weirder combats — bring a beast that can leap up & down the pillars & cliffs for maximum chaos!This is a remaster of a Miscellanea Maps classic!ThoughtsSomething located in the lake with solid ranged attacks could snipe players who’d be scrambling to hide behind the pill...
Peach Shrine Palace
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!A sprawling palace built around a sacred ever-blooming peach tree of colossal size. Buried at its feet are the last seven generations of titans; from the honden’s porch, it rises above the gardens like a titan of its own right. Is this the home of a god, a priest, or a master & his students?ThoughtsI feel like anyone so dishonorable as to disrupt the white gravel in their battle deserves divine punishment — or possibly just regular punishment, after-the-fact.L...
Desert Pyramid Gates (Remastered!)
Click here to get the map!The free archive is attached to the bottom of this post!Far across the lone and level sands lies great temples built from limestone and sandstone - and though they lie in ruins today, they once rose far out of the desert with heights unmatched by any modern civilization.I always wanted to revisit Egypt. I just haven’t gotten around to it yet! It’s a shame it’s outside DnDungeon’s current theme. But I can always remaster the old packs.This is a remaster of a Miscellanea Maps original! Besides the originals, I ha...
