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The Dungeon - Set of 2 Modular Books of Battle Mats for RPG

Created by BattleMats

Adventure on 2 adaptive Books of Battle Mats which can align to create 1 epic endlessly evolving dungeon map. Wipe clean, portable, big. The physical books are not currently available for Pre-Order but the digital can still be ordered.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

BRAND NEW BOOK - included in the New Double Dungeon Pledge Level!!
almost 5 years ago – Wed, May 01, 2019 at 02:13:16 AM

And we are starting the week with some more HUGE news!

By popular demand we are adding a new pledge level - The Double Dungeon - and to celebrate we are including an exciting new product in this pledge.

Each set of the Dungeon contains 2 books, but as these books are modular you can line up more than 2 books and make even bigger dungeons.

Like this

An example of a Double Dungeon
An example of a Double Dungeon

The Double Dungeon will include - 

  • Two sets of The Dungeon (4 books total)
  • All physical and digital unlocked stretch goals
  • Digital Dungeon
  • The Little Book of Battle Mats - Dungeon Edition

The pledge level will be £50, and the great news is there will be no increase to the shipping cost which will represent a big saving! 

Now lets talk about the Little Book of Battle Mats - Dungeon Edition. This is a BRAND NEW book, fully laminated, of corridors, dead end rooms, bridges and entrances to compliment the Dungeon. This will be the same style as our existing library - laminated with 360° spine - and will give you even more options for creating your own dungeon! The size will be approx 6"x6". So suddenly that doorway leads to an intriguing chamber!

The Little Book of Battle Mats - Dungeon Edition
The Little Book of Battle Mats - Dungeon Edition

The Little Book of Battle Mats - Dungeon Edition - will have an estimated RRP of £9.99.

This pledge level represents huge value for money. Your shipping cost is set already so you get an extra copy of the Dungeon set AND a brand new Little Book of Battle Mats. 

This will let you build your play area all the way up to 24"x48", or obviously any combination you can think of.

And I have to admit we got a bit overexcited doing our photo shoot this morning. This is what Four sets of the Dungeon Looks like (or two Double Dungeons!!).

Two Double Dungeons (so four sets of the Dungeon, 8 books in total)
Two Double Dungeons (so four sets of the Dungeon, 8 books in total)

I don't know about you but we are going to need a bigger table!!

Let me introduce our cover artist James Gray!
almost 5 years ago – Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 02:06:31 AM

Now we are funded it's time to introduce our cover artist James Gray. This is rather a belated introduction as at the moment we are trying to limit ourselves to one update per day and thus far we have had a lot of achieved stretch goals to fit into the updates!

So here are the planned covers for the two Dungeon books.

As you can see from the artwork James is a talented artist who has worked on a number of other projects, including the Oligarchy Card Game (which Matt also provided art for). 

James Gray, (aka quigonjim), is an illustrator and artist who will be producing the cover art for each of the Dungeon books. Former clients and books include the anthologies Zombies, Robots and Westerns for Accent UK Comics, the Kickstarter backed Amnesia Agents with Jason Cobley and the upcoming Brawler anthology, card art for Oligarchy from Entropic Games and poster and T-Shirt designs for the band Dead Man's Whiskey. He also has a substantial back catalogue of Superbike and MotoGP artworks.   

You can find Jim's latest project, Brawler, currently on Kickstarter here -  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1815843378/brawler-1 (fully funded and hitting stretch goals!)

Jim has kindly agreed to work with us on these two covers, one for each dungeon book, and I think you'll agree they do add a real touch of class to the books.

For more of Jim's artwork check out his website. He can be contacted via his site for commission enquires if you'd like to see if he's available for any character or group portraits.

That's it for this update, let's see how close we are to the token stretch goal this time tomorrow!


Enter the Dungeon! To celebrate our £35k stretch goal we are unveiling all the page designs!
almost 5 years ago – Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 01:34:02 AM

And it's unlocked! The Dragon's Lair has now been added, 2 pages extra in each book that combine to create a 4 page 24"x24" spread.

What the Books Look Like Now

Now we have unlocked our last additional pages it seems the moment has come to share the pictures of all our page designs as they currently stand.

That's all 80 pages between both books!

We have designed each book to work as a stand alone 24"x12" or 12"x12" map, also combining with the other book in any number of ways to create vast numbers of page combinations! You can see from the images that there are standard entry/exit points so you can line the designs up horizontally or vertically to create whatever adventure area you need.

The next design steps for us are to gather your feedback (what you want to see more of or less of in our designs) and make all the tweaks needed to make these books perfect! We want you to be involved in this process so please let us know your thoughts via the comments section! 

One of the best parts of Kickstarter is we get to work directly with you guys and we always leave a little "wriggle room" in our designs to reflect your feedback, so lets have it!! On the comments section we will be there to answer questions and bat ideas around :-)

But we are not done yet! While we will not be increasing the page count any more we have more stretch goals lined up to thank you for your support and add value to the package that our Kickstarter backers get.

Next Stretch Goal - Architectural tokens to use on the dungeon! 

Next up we will design and produce a sheet of tokens to use with the dungeon. These will be things like furniture, doors, collapsed walls, suspicious floor tiles etc designed in the style of the dungeon so you can place them on the books in order to customise them further.

Again we have left wriggle room here for your feedback so if there is anything you would like to see appear on the token sheet please lets hear about it!

Mock up door tokens
Mock up door tokens
Furniture token example
Furniture token example

The token sheet will be unlocked when we reach £45,000

More Stretch Goals Hit adding More adventure!!
almost 5 years ago – Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 01:47:45 AM

We are storming through our stretch goals! We really feel our social goals are key in getting the word out there about The Dungeon and getting backers so we can add more value to the package! Please keep sharing to help spread the word!

We are delighted to announce we have hit 2k followers on Instagram AND 100 shares of our Facebook post. So to say thank you we are adding 4 pages to the accompanying adventure module PDF (2 per achieved goal), which will now have a minimum page count of 18 page. 

a quick reminder the adventure will be - 

The Peculiar Will of Thurandius Drake

Written to accompany The Dungeon Book of Battle Mats set, this adventure module, 'The Peculiar Will of Thurandius Drake', can be played out on the books themselves or by using the digital tiles optimised for virtual tabletop applications. It will also include D&D 5E rules aimed at early tier 2 characters within the module.

"Thurandius Drake, the renowned magical artefact fabricator has passed away, leaving no heir to his fortune, instead his last will and testament states in exacting detail that the first to successfully enter his vault may lay full claim to its treasures.

Many have tried, none have succeeded..."

Module draft cover
Module draft cover

Social Goals

Please keep sharing! 

Achieved Social Goals

Design Update

Keep your eyes peeled for our next update! We are very close to unlocking the Dragon's Lair and once we hit that we will be sharing the designs from the books in detail (well thumbnails) so you can start to plan your adventures! There are still designs we are working on, for example we are adding water entrance to The Dungeon, but we can't wait to share the page designs with you and hear what you think so please please reach out in the comments section with your thoughts!

And Finally another picture of the Books!

We can't leave you without a last peek at how The Dungeon works with our existing books! Enjoy :-)

A Giant Book (bottom) transitioning to the Dungeon Books (top), and my tablecloth...
A Giant Book (bottom) transitioning to the Dungeon Books (top), and my tablecloth...

The Dungeon Social Goal Update - Another one hit adds another 2 pages to the adventure module!
almost 5 years ago – Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 11:15:52 PM

Yesterday, as well as unlocking the Wizards tower pages we also met another of our social goals, 100 retweets of our pinned Kickstarter tweet.

This means the accompanying adventure module PDF will now have a minimum page count of 14 pages, a quick reminder the adventure will be - 

The Peculiar Will of Thurandius Drake

Written to accompany The Dungeon Book of Battle Mats set, this adventure module, 'The Peculiar Will of Thurandius Drake', can be played out on the books themselves or by using the digital tiles optimised for virtual tabletop applications. It will also include D&D 5E rules aimed at early tier 2 characters within the module.

"Thurandius Drake, the renowned magical artefact fabricator has passed away, leaving no heir to his fortune, instead his last will and testament states in exacting detail that the first to successfully enter his vault may lay full claim to its treasures.

Many have tried, none have succeeded..."

Social Goals

We believe the social goals are helping to keep the project going at a great pace so let's see if we can get some more over the line!  

If all of these are reached, we'll also produce 'Dungeon Run!' a pdf document for generating random dungeons from the books or VTT tiles.

Achieved Social Goals

These social goals have been met, but adding even more likes, shares and retweets help us get the word out there and help us get more of the funding stretch goals hit for the books!

And due to popular demand more examples of the Big Book of Battle Mats and The Dungeon working together!

We've put together some example layouts using pages from the Big Book of Battle Mats and pages from the Dungeon Books. As you can see the wide range of designs in the Big Book can be used to compliment the pages from the Dungeon Books and used to create even more varied layouts.

An important meeting with the local nobility, or a well-planned assassination?

From the dungeon depths of the Big Book to a cavern transition in a Dungeon Book.

Hopefully this gives a feel for just how expandable the various books can be together.

Thanks again for helping us make this project come to life.

Matt & Tam

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