![]() One of the coolest features on donjon are the random map makers. This is a site filled to the brim with free RPG tools for all kinds of different systems and settings. If you are an RPG gamer and you haven’t been to donjon you need to go bookmark right now. This is the software that was used to create many of the maps in the books you know and love.ĭonjon – Next I have something that takes even less work than Inkarnate and that’s the various map making tools at donjon. Pro Fantasy’s programs aren’t cheap but you get a fully developed suite of tools that are actually used by the gaming industry. Added to this, they also sell add on packs for each piece of software, so for example, if you want additional art, or wall styles, or icons, you will need to pay more. If you want overland maps you buy one thing, you want dungeons you have to buy another. Without going all in, each piece of software has to be bought separately. It always has and I expect it always will.īuying the entire suite of software will cost you $620 (and that’s with the current half off sale). The big problem here, in regards to Nate’s question, is that Pro Fantasy software costs money. Of all their tools, Campaign Cartographer remains the most popular and the most recommended software for designing overland maps for games. They have also added plenty of new software tools like Character Artist, Cosmographer, Fantasy Floorplans, Fractal Terrains and more. Pro Fantasy also offers new versions of City Designer and Dungeon Designer, tools I remember playing around with back in the day. Campaign Cartographer is now on version 3+ and it’s come a long way from its origins in the 90s. Pro Fantasy Software – The first piece of software I want to highlight is Pro Fantasy Software’s suite of mapping tools which includes Campaign Cartographer, which I already mentioned. If you are interested in this topic you can also listen to Sean and I talk about it on The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 147, X Marks the Spot. Wargame maps created in Campaign Cartographer or new Gloomhaven scenarios designed with map making tools are totally not out of the question. These tools can be great for prototyping and creating things like boards or other maps to be used in your games. Some of the maps created with some of these free tools rival some of the best professional work out there (to some artists’ chagrin).īefore I get to the map making tool list, I want to point out that while most of these are designed for RPG use, there’s no reason you couldn’t use them for board games as well. Most of them allow you to make maps we would have only dreamed of back when I was running my own homebrew campaigns. As someone who spent many years in the gaming hobby without these tools, I find the options quite amazing. Today there are a large number of mapping software options available and lucky for Nate many of them are free or offer free versions, with the option to pay for more. Thankfully things have continued to advance from there. Over the years a few tools started to be released to the public including the Campaign Cartographer series that came with the AD&D Core Rules CD-ROMs, but they were not at all easy to use, being based on industrial level CAD programs. Even if you were willing to buy maps they weren’t nearly as readily available as they are now, while free options were pretty much unheard of. I know for at least one of my campaigns I spent more time drawing maps than I did running the game. Using these links doesn’t cost you anything extra and it helps support this blog and podcast.ĭo you know of any RPG map-making websites or tools (ideally free) that can allow the user to create and/or generate both city and country maps? Primarily needs to be maps the user can create.įirst off I have to start by saying, what a world we live in now that this is even a thing! Back in my day if you wanted a map you had to go out and buy a module or sit down with graph paper and draw it yourself.Įven for those of us who liked creating hand drawn maps, it was a bit of a chore and it took a long time. Maps can be an integral part of many RPG sessions and Game Masters are always on the lookout for places to find great maps, especially if they can find them cheap or free.įor creative GMs an even better solution is making their own maps and that’s what I will be talking about in this article, some great ways to create maps for your games, many of which cost little to no money.ĭisclosure: Some links in this post are affiliate links. ![]() Handmade & Unique, Tabletop Gaming at Etsy.Other Tabletop Gaming Deals (30+ stores!).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |