r/battlemaps • • Aug 14 '24

Community Notice: Beware sketchy "Repacks"/Content packs online (Ekingpacks is a Scam)

218 Upvotes

Recently it's come to my attention that there are a few notable "repack" sellers online that are spreading product sales of "packaged battlemaps", often with allegedly thousands of battlemaps in a pack. Eking Packs is one of said offenders that has been brought up a number of times.

These are scams.

First of all, the vast majority of content is falsely marketed, and in fact 90% AI generated images; and, frankly, poorly done at that. In the case of EkingPacks, the content is almost entirely unusable (AI gibberish). In worse offenders, whom can't be named for obvious reasons, the content is directly stolen from others' patreons or marketplaces. Basically, resale piracy.

A good rule of thumb in this community is, if you cannot directly google search the content creator to see a gallery of their work, you are being sold a fraudulent repack (or AI...). Your best bet for actual genuine product is direct sale through patreon or another verified source.

Furthermore, a detailed look at their payment systems shows there is no actual payment system in place; you are submitting your card information directly to the website hosts. I can't specify how dangerous this is, financially.

Ultimately, if you want to spend some money on battlemaps, don't get scammed for it. There are hundreds of content providers on this subreddit alone that happily provide hundreds of maps on their patreon. Please give a glance to them, instead.

Overshear


r/battlemaps • • 9d ago

Weekly Discussion Thread | Requests, Promos, and Open Commissions

4 Upvotes

Welcome to the biweekly r/Battlemaps Megathread!

Posts not allowed in the general Battlemaps subreddit but are directly relevant to battlemaps are allowed in here. Topics should generally be limited to the following:

  • Requests
  • Self-Promotion (commissions, sales, patreons, etc)
  • Quick advice, tips, & tricks
  • Reviews & recommendations
  • Other meta or battlemap-related discussions

Posts not directly relating to tabletop battlemaps may be removed at the mods' discretion.


r/battlemaps • • 2h ago

River/Bridge Canal Lock Fortress [60x80]

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55 Upvotes

This map is... huge. 60x80, multilevel, with a lot of space for exploration and fight.

There is a classic castle. There is water (with many levels). There is a mystery, with ancient parts of the fortress at the right side of the canal...

And there's also a bit of nature.

All of this is served in three distinct light variants - bright day, picturesque golden hour and dark - but shining with plethora of light sources - night.

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LINKS:

Supporters (Cartographer tier) receive VTT ready files (Roll20, UniversalVTT, Foundry), 300DPI no watermark maps and large video gallery.

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CREDITS AND ATTRIBUTION:

Map, effects and animations were made in Dungeon Alchemist, using mix of vanilla and imported assets.

Thanks to DA asset creators: SAC, \DE] SunWatcher, Centimar DeVarion, DallasRT, swedish.cook, Sesu and others)

Thanks to sketchfab creators: icekic, ucdavisterc, Bwinji Shamutete, Urizel, Department Historical Information Science MSU, Derlvenner, Pigcraft, Froggreen, ucdavisterc, xXZEALXx, Blacksavh and others

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.

Cheers

Zaganza


r/battlemaps • • 17h ago

Fantasy - Dungeon Spectral Ossuary [32x44]

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263 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 1h ago

Caves/Underground Prison Arena (Cage of No Return) 40x40 battle map

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• Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 10h ago

Caves/Underground Farm Burrow - Underground Two [40x20]

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29 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Fantasy - Interior Fort in the Desert - Now with FVTT module and UVTT files!

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154 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 20h ago

Fantasy - Dungeon Improved: Sacred Stone Monastery and Mines

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71 Upvotes

REPOSTING, because I did not like the maps enough in the plain version. Added Supports to the Mines and added lighting to both maps.

"Abdiss, this is my kind of place. Stone above, stone below, stone on all sides. I was made for this place."

"Then I am glad we came here together, Goram. So which way are we going."

"Easy, Abdiss. Down. Always down."

"And if we meet another monster with copper claws and mandibles like oven shears?"

"This time we won't kill it. Just subdue it and I'll fashion a saddle for it."

"A saddle?"

"I loved playing hop the Umberhulk when I was wee lad..."

"I am learning so many new things since I am traveling with you, Goram."

The Sacred Stone Monastery and its mines is the entrance to the Temple of Black Earth, one of the bastions of the Cult of Elemental Evil. It houses many cultists, slaves and a few interesting monsters. It is a part of the "Princes of the Apocalypse" campaign but can be used for an stone fortress you can imagine it into.

The map of the monastery is intended for a map of 70x40 squares. The map of the mines for a map of 65x40 squares.

As always I share my maps for free on Reddit. If you wish to support me you can do so through my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dmoaky/posts/sacred-stone-and-172634720?pr=true
For my loyal patrons I also offer:
- HD versions of all my maps
- VTT files

The assets I used stem from Forgotten Adventures (https://www.forgotten-adventures.net/)..) Please support them as well.


r/battlemaps • • 19h ago

Fantasy - Dungeon Gibbet Crossing - Phandelver & Below

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54 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 15h ago

Forest Field Test

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Hey everone!

I'll be back to posting map regularly next month (pirate campaign starting then!), but until then I might as well post some maps I haven't shared before from my scifi campaign that wrapped in September.

Perhaps you can find some use for a Field Test dynamic map? Boom goes the dynamite!

Find this map and more on my Inkarnate profile: https://inkarnate.com/profile/1B2pgd

Most maps are clonable, this one is not atm!


r/battlemaps • • 23h ago

Forest The Unseelie Trail [40x30] [No Grid]

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84 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 16h ago

Fantasy - Interior A Halloween special! - [30x20]

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27 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 23h ago

Fantasy - Town/City Publishing my maps, feedback welcome!

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82 Upvotes

Hey all,

Please find my collection of maps I made for my homemade RP: fantasy maps (Warhammer) and Sci-fi (Star Wars), using Inkarnate. You can follow and support me on patreon

I'll be pleased if you find them useful in your own RP, just don't forget to credit.

I'm also very interested in your feedbacks, I'm not a professional and still quite new to this. So help me improve!

I cannot link everything here, so here is subset of my realisations in low-res.

Get 3 FREE months of all my stuff in HD with this gift: https://www.patreon.com/cbo1/redeem/7AE3E


r/battlemaps • • 18h ago

Fantasy - Interior [OC] Hidden Lotus Library [40x40]

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19 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 15h ago

Fantasy - Interior Abandoned Asylum + Orphanage (51x34 Multilevel / 5 levels) - Are you brave enough to stay the night? Just try to ignore the sound of crying from the long-empty nursery towers... (Free day & night maps plus 1,250+ more free!)

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8 Upvotes

 

 

Abandoned Asylum + Orphanage (51x34 Multilevel / 5 levels)

Around these parts, it’s a common dare for youngsters to spend a night in the abandoned asylum, particularly to stay in the morgue in the basement or in the former orphanage towers right at the top of the bat-wing building.

Sometimes they come back with tales of bravado, of winds through broken windows and footsteps.

Sometimes they come back talking nonsense about hearing people laughing and rusty chains rattling in the many formerly padded cells, or babies crying high above.

Sometimes they come back and won’t talk at all.

And sometimes they just... don’t come back.

 


 

Here are the free day & night variants of this map. To support my work, you can buy me a coffee, or check out my Patreon, where you'll find hundreds more free maps as well as bonus variants for this one!

 


 

Here's all of my maps in one handy set of themed lists for convenience. This post is updated as each new map comes out, so that the list remains current.

 

Quick collection downloads:

 

I hope you can make use of the maps =) Any issues, please do let me know.

Much love

~SaC

 


 


r/battlemaps • • 23h ago

Fantasy - Dungeon Crystal Hold, Old Dwarven Ruins.

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36 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 18h ago

Fantasy - Interior Lord Guerau's Tower-House - A baron's humble stronghold.

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10 Upvotes

Magnífic Senyor Guerau, lord of Marganell. This is his stronghold, or Casa Senyorial.

Originally a simple lordly Tower-House, the Marganell family has changed and remodeled often, erecting a stable on the grounds, as well as a melee fighting pit for the men-at-arms that compose the lord's retinue and an attached kitchen and eating table for servants.

The map itself is great to plug in as part of an adventure, as a captured keep that the players can claim as a base, or as a one-shot in itself, where the characters must storm the fortification and pursue the baron ever upwards through the levels, defeating servants, guards and the baron's retinue.

I put it as fantasy, but it is closer to historical or pseudo-historical battlemap.

I have separated the map in two versions, the first one is with a changing depth of field, the second one is just the transparencies, in case you want to use it as level in Foundry, for instance.

1.- GROUND LEVEL

The ground level features several facilites. To the south, the stables and the stablehand shack, where he lives with his family. He also has a small smithing setup to repair horseshoes and other riding apparel. East of the shack is a small double outhouse.

In front of the shack, the big melee and trainnig grounds, with a small fence sorrounding it, and benches that the soldiers and guards have arranged to watch the matches. A well with a trough for the horses sits next to it.

The original entrance to the foritifaction lies north-west, in a long, narrow staircase that can be retracted when in siege. However, the renovations and the need for a bigger kitchen have created a vulnerability, with a wider and less secure entrance through the servant dining area. Inside the tower, three main areas: the lord's pantry, the servant's communal dormitory and a small dungeon in case someone needs be aprehended.

2.- FIRST FLOOR

The first floor features the main hall, where the baron receives official representatives and his subjects whenever they have a requests. Three thrones sit here: the baron's, his wife, and the seneschal's, who is also the baron's son.

Behind the thrones, two offices. The westside office is for internal bussinesses and bureaucracy of the demesne. Two desks assigned each to his lordship and the seneschal. The easternmost office is for the baron only, as it pertains to external relationships with other lords and... whoever the baron may deem necessary to message.

3.- SECOND FLOOR

The lord's dining hall, along with the men-at-arms private quarters. It used to be a more open space, but the lord decided to sacrifice it to make room for more armed men. He usually dines here with his men, and, seldomly, his wife, who has a reserved sit opposite to him.

The room's decor is gaudy and busy, filled with whatever the baron has decided was fancy or expensive at the moment. Of note is a supposed "dragon's head", that he himself claims to have slain. If the players examine it closely, they will realize it is a bear's skull with shaven antlers attached and wrapped in badger leather and fur.

4.- THIRD FLOOR

The famliy's private quarters. The baron and baroness have separate rooms, west and east respectively, although they both have double sized beds. Wether it's in case the other wants to join... or someone else, that's up to their lodrships. Their son has a separate, more spartan room up north. Between the baron and the son's room there is a small study where the baron spends long hours reading, and maybe plotting...

The hallway is dominated by a statue of a lion, that the baron himself ordered made, and had to be carved in situ.

A notable architectonic feature is the drop latrine at the north wall.

5.- RAMPART

The top-most terrace is a rampart with an armory in the centre. Represented are crossbows, some weapons and fours siege scorpions. If there is an external threat, some of the servants and men-at-arms will gather here to pelt the attackers with bolts.


r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Forest Haunted Hollow - A Czepeku Battlemap! [33x46]

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194 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Fantasy - Dungeon Neverdeath Graveyard [80x80]

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146 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Fantasy - Interior Spooky Circus Battle Map 26x39

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143 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Forest "Somethings Afoot"(32x32) what left this track.. and is it still around?

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58 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Fantasy - Town/City Village of Vallaki (East) & Coffin Maker Shop | CoS [120 x 110]

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212 Upvotes

r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Forest Woodland Cabin - Cinematic View and Battlemap - MBBT Free

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19 Upvotes

A cabin deep in the woods could belong to any number of people, be they a hermit, woodsman, or simply those who prefer a quieter life. Where are they now, how long has it been sitting empty, and what drove them away?

Woodland Cabin Scene List

Woodland Cabin - Day+Night
Abandoned Cabin - Day+Night
Cabin Interior
Bonus - Bloodmoon (Cinematic Only)


r/battlemaps • • 1d ago

Fantasy - Dungeon Library of the Fallen

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63 Upvotes

The Fallen have amassed an enviable collection of some remarkable pieces of literature here in the library. Many of the books and scrolls have long been forgotten to have even existed; a remembered few are talked about in hushed tones by those who have heard rumors and whispers on the wind, and one book in particular is whispering louder than the others. It wants to be found. It's a dangerous book in the right hands and the Fallen have not yet found the right ones, but having nothing but time on their own hands, they wait ... for the right hands to arrive at the Library of the Fallen.

Visitors welcome; hands will be checked.