Awe-Inspiring: The Ancient Monument
No matter in what context the players reach this place, whether as the culmination of a long questline or as a spontaneous surprise, this map pack can become a true highlight of any campaign. From that moment on, your players will watch every development of your story with bright-eyed anticipation of what might come next.
ALL IN ALL:
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6 animated Battlemaps
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6 animated Sceneries
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18 Rendered Handouts
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4 Ambient Tracks á 10 minutes each
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4 (!!!) Intro Sequences
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Optimized for FoundryVTT, usable for other VTT platforms. One Click installation into your Foundry VTT World with Moulinette.
Let's take a detailed look at each map and talk about what makes each of them a great fit for your adventures.
Map 1 + 4: The Path
In addition, there are four intro sequences in total, two for the bright version and two for the dark one. The first intro simply shows the statue standing at the end of the valley, while the second shows the same statue awakening, beginning to move, and facing the player part, possibly ready for combat.
Map 2 + 5: Underfoot
Maps 2 and 5 take place at the foot of the statue, where it stands motionless and inactive — a resting place or roleplay backdrop while the monument looms above the party, either protective or ominous, watching or threatening.
This could just as easily find its place within a dream sequence or a way to discover the entrance to a dungeon hidden below it. The scene stays deliberately open, giving you a wide range of ways to present and interpret it.
And now the highlight...
Map 3 + 6: The Awakened Statue
It can be a one-off encounter where the party must prove their worth before an overwhelming construct, a conduit for speaking with a powerful otherworldly entity, or a recurring motif that grows more alive through the group’s actions — until it finally marches beside them into the final battle.
The possibilities are endless, and we tried to create as many of them as possible with as little imposed structure as possible. You’re not even limited to using just one version. The shift between the bright, heroic variant and the dark, gothic one can happen during a fight, a vision, or over the course of the adventure, letting you squeeze the most out of the setup.
If you want to use stats for the statue itself, I can wholeheartedly recommend our Cathedral Knight. Surround the statue with Deathrite Bellringers and you get a gripping boss fight that really makes use of the animated monument. While the Bellringers and the Cathedral Knight are undead-themed, they can easily be reworked into a heroic, sacred variant. The “silence” motif of their abilities works perfectly to support the narrative that something inside the statue is being bound by magical silence.
BENEOS SEARCH ENGINE
We have so many battle maps, intros, magic items, tokens, and custom spells that we have our own search engine. It is integrated into the Beneos module for Foundry VTT, but can also be used free of charge online to see everything we have.
If you want to keep the Beneos high going between map releases, consider supporting Beneos Tokens, Spells & Loot! There's a new creature every week, often with a direct connection to the last or the next map release!
Every other week there's a spell or item release and especially loyal supporters even gain access to an additional creature release every month. Like the maps, they are optimized for FoundryVTT and are an essential part of our design philosophy. For example:
New Animated Object: Awakened Iron Maiden
New Loot: Thornbloom Bow, Hjalmar's Nifty Apron, Snake Eyes & Blade of the Radiant Rout
Download the newest Loot now via the Beneos Cloud within Foundry or, if you don't use Foundry, access the files directly via the beneos.cloud website!
Whether it’s creatures, spells, or items, all of our content is always designed around one core question: what problem does this solve, or what possibilities does it open up?
Here are a bunch of new items that allow for new gameplay opportunities, inspire narrative developments or a just plain fun to use!
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