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How it works, the detailed version

From one download to a table they remember.

Beneos is animated maps, creatures, spells and items, built to arrive ready to play. Below is what actually lands in your library, how it runs wherever you play, and the difference between buying once and joining on Patreon.

Animated
The short version

The whole thing in three steps.

Step 01

Choose your content

Browse animated maps, creatures, spells and items in the shop, or get them as part of a Patreon membership. Everything sits in one library tied to your account.

Step 02

It arrives ready to run

Maps come walled and lit. Creatures come with a statblock and a tactical guide. Nothing needs an evening of prep before your players sit down.

Step 03

Play wherever you play

Drop it into Foundry with one click, show it on a TV at the table, or download the files for another VTT. Same content, your choice of table.

What you actually get

A release is never just a file.

Whatever you pick comes as a finished thing, with the parts that usually eat your prep already done.

Animated
Battlemaps

Battlemaps and sceneries

Animated 4K scenes where the water moves and torchlight crawls across the stone. They connect, so one download can carry a party from the cellar to the vault with nothing to stitch together.

  • 1,855 maps and sceneries, animated and grid-aligned
  • 3,603 rendered handouts, close-ups of the places on each map
  • 110 ambience tracks, around ten minutes each
  • Sound effects keyed to the scene
  • 110 cinematic intro sequences to open a session
Handout A handout is a close-up rendered straight from the map. Keep it open to feel a room, or show it to your players when the spot matters to the story.
Creatures

Creatures and monsters

Each one arrives as a working encounter, not a sprite. You drop it on the map and run it the same night.

  • 721 animated creature tokens, 411 of them SRD
  • A hand-built D&D 5e statblock, ready to import
  • Several skins, so a pack never looks like copies of one token
  • A tactical guide for running it well the first time
  • An animated death state the moment it hits 0 HP
  • A printable token and card for the table
Spells

Spells

Animated effects you fire on the map mid-scene, so the fireball goes off where the party is standing.

  • 484 spell effects, 339 of them SRD
  • Printable reference cards
  • Built to enable exotic, off-meta playstyles
  • Can be handed out as loot or a reward
  • Balanced by class, level, action type and components, with printable cards
Items

Items

Magic items that are more than a line on a sheet. Many upgrade across a campaign, and some form sets that reward a player for collecting the pieces.

  • 713 items, 575 of them SRD
  • Upgrade mechanics and set bonuses
  • Printable cards to hand a player
  • Tier upgrades, legacy gear that grows from level 1 to 20
  • Loot Generator in Foundry: random rewards after every fight
  • Shop Creator in Foundry: a guild, merchant, smith or alchemist on demand
However you play

Built for your table, whichever one it is.

Deepest integration
Foundry

On Foundry VTT, through Beneos Cloud

This is the deepest integration. Through the Beneos module, a scene installs in one click, already walled, lit and wired for automation, and creatures bring their statblocks with them. It is the setup with the least distance between buying something and playing it.

All it takes is Foundry VTT and the free Beneos module.
See the Foundry setup
Table

At the table, on a screen

No VTT and no special software. Put the animated map on a TV or projector, flat on the table or up on the wall, and run the game in person the way you always have, with the scene moving instead of sitting still.

All it takes is a laptop, a screen and the downloaded files.
Other VTTs

On Roll20 and other VTTs

Download the map and import it into whatever VTT you use. You give up the one-click automation the Foundry module brings, but the animated scene and the art come with you.

All it takes is the downloaded files and your VTT's import.
On Foundry VTT, through Beneos Cloud

One click, and the scene is on the table.

In Foundry, a whole release installs in one click, walled, lit and automated. Scenes cross-link, the Autopilot runs each turn, and the Loot Generator and Shop Creator fill your world on demand.

At the table, on a screen

Lay a TV flat and play the file.

No VTT, no software. The animated map plays on a TV or projector, and a ten-minute ambience track sets the room before a word is spoken.

On Roll20 and other VTTs

Import the scene into your VTT.

Bring the map into Roll20, Fantasy Grounds or any VTT. You build the scene with your own walls and sounds, and every map, scenery, intro and ambience comes with you.

How the Beneos Cloud works

Two ways out of your library.

Everything you have access to sits in Your Library, whether you bought it in the shop or unlocked it on Patreon. From there, two paths to your game.

Direct install

The Beneos module pulls a scene straight into your Foundry world from the cloud, walled and lit, with no files to manage. One click and it is on the table.

Download the files

Prefer to handle it yourself, or play somewhere other than Foundry? Download the pack as a ZIP and use it anywhere, on a TV or in another VTT.

Shop buyers and patrons use the same library. A buyer sees what they own, a patron sees everything their tier unlocks.
Two ways to get it

One library. Two doors.

The shop and the Patreon are not rivals. They are two ways into the same content, sorted by one question: how often you play.

Patreon

Join on Patreon

For the GM who runs games most weeks. A monthly membership gets every new release, the full back catalogue and the Foundry integration, and works out cheapest over time.

Shop

Buy in the shop

For the one map your Friday session needs. Buy it once, own it for good, no subscription. It costs more per pack than the membership, and that is the point. The long-run value is the reward for sticking around.

Buying once is the low-risk way in. Plenty of patrons started with a single pack.
Battlemaps Patreon Tokens, Spells & Loot Patreon Shop
What you getThe maps laneThe creatures, spells and items laneAny single pack on its own
New contentEvery new drop in the laneEvery new drop in the laneWhat you choose to buy
Back catalogue Included IncludedNot included
Foundry integration Included Included Included
Best forGMs who run most weeksGMs who want creatures and effectsA one-off need
Price modelMonthlyMonthlyOne-time per pack
The two Patreons are two production lanes, one for maps, one for creatures, spells and items. Subscribe to only the lane you want.
Start where you like

Pick a map for Friday, or unlock the whole library.

Either door drops you into the same animated content. Start small and own one pack, or join and get all of it.

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