D&D Beyond adds three new Czepeku haunted maps for Maps tool

D&D Beyond widened its Czepeku lineup with three new haunted map packs that are already live in the Maps tool: Haunted Dockside Tavern, Haunted Ghost Ship and Nightmare Dragon Lair. The new release is aimed squarely at DMs who want a fast way to get from prep to play, with immersive reveals, top-down battle maps and animated variations bundled into the digital packs.

The company’s support forum post, dated May 26, 2026, says the new maps are fully supported in the D&D Beyond Maps tool. The same thread also flags a problem affecting the animated reveals, with no estimated fix time yet. For tables that rely on the flashy presentation layer in digital play, that is the one snag in an otherwise straightforward rollout.

The strongest of the three, at least for immediate table use, is Haunted Dockside Tavern. Czepeku describes it as a spooky waterside tavern that is perfect for a pirate campaign or a sinister start to a campaign, which makes it an easy plug-in for a smuggling hub, cursed port stop or the first room of a horror one-shot. Haunted Ghost Ship and Nightmare Dragon Lair fill out the rest of the package with obvious encounter-ready hooks: one for a sea-bound scare and one for the kind of boss fight where the lair itself should feel like a threat.

This is not D&D Beyond’s first pass at Czepeku. The platform introduced Czepeku map packs on May 6, 2025, describing the studio as an ENNIE award-winning team of artists. That earlier rollout stressed that the maps were usable only in Maps, the official D&D Beyond VTT, and were not downloadable. In other words, the value here is not ownership, it is friction-free use inside the ecosystem.

That pitch still holds. D&D Beyond’s Maps page says anyone with a free account can host game sessions in Maps, which makes these haunted packs less like premium wall art and more like ready-made scenes for the table. Czepeku’s own catalog, with 10,000-plus hand-drawn fantasy and sci-fi maps, scenes and tokens, gives D&D Beyond a deep bench of polished encounter spaces. For DMs who already live inside D&D Beyond, these three new haunted maps are the kind of drop that can save an hour of prep and make the opening roll feel like it matters.