Hi fellow DMs, I am about to prepare for a new campaign and I was wondering what you all using to create your maps. I am especially talking about battle- / interior maps that are 2D top down and can be used in online tools like Roll20 (though I would also love to hear about those that you use for world maps if you have any good). I have to add that I have no real drawing skills so a tool that delivers tiles and assets out of the box would be optiomal. If you like to suggest a tool, it would be nice, if you could give a quick overview of pros, cons and the price of the tool and add a link to it. If there is already a thread about this topic here on the server, feel free to link it.
I am looking forward to you suggestions. Thank you in advance.
I have yet to find a tool that I'm really satisfied with. No matter what I use, the assets are always so limited that maps start looking "samey" after a while.
I ended up with Inkarnate (inkarnate.com). It's easy to use, supports both battle maps, region maps, and world scale maps. I wish it had more assets, but that's an issue with any tool.
Other tools I tried:
Campaign Cartographer 3: It's very powerful but very unintuitive. It's basically the AutoCAD of fantasy map creators. If you really want to get the most out of it you need to buy tons of asset packs costing you a shitload of money.
Flowscape is a 3d tool for creating landscapes. It's more useful for outdoor scenes. Pro: Very beautiful 3d scenes. Con: High fidelity can mean things are harder to see than on "drawn" maps.
Azgaar's Map Generator links to the City Generator in software so that you don't have to do a buch of name changing. There is a learning curve, but not horrible.
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Hi fellow DMs,
I am about to prepare for a new campaign and I was wondering what you all using to create your maps. I am especially talking about battle- / interior maps that are 2D top down and can be used in online tools like Roll20 (though I would also love to hear about those that you use for world maps if you have any good). I have to add that I have no real drawing skills so a tool that delivers tiles and assets out of the box would be optiomal.
If you like to suggest a tool, it would be nice, if you could give a quick overview of pros, cons and the price of the tool and add a link to it.
If there is already a thread about this topic here on the server, feel free to link it.
I am looking forward to you suggestions. Thank you in advance.
I have yet to find a tool that I'm really satisfied with. No matter what I use, the assets are always so limited that maps start looking "samey" after a while.
I ended up with Inkarnate (inkarnate.com). It's easy to use, supports both battle maps, region maps, and world scale maps. I wish it had more assets, but that's an issue with any tool.
Other tools I tried:
Campaign Cartographer 3: It's very powerful but very unintuitive. It's basically the AutoCAD of fantasy map creators. If you really want to get the most out of it you need to buy tons of asset packs costing you a shitload of money.
Dungeon Scrawl (https://dungeonscrawl.com/) and Dungeon Map Doodler (https://dungeonmapdoodler.com/) are both free and very easy to use. Nice for very plain maps of dungeons.
Flowscape is a 3d tool for creating landscapes. It's more useful for outdoor scenes. Pro: Very beautiful 3d scenes. Con: High fidelity can mean things are harder to see than on "drawn" maps.
I have a link for you to a pile of resources. Enjoy. D&D Compendium - Maps & Map Tools
For my Campaign and City Maps, I use these two: Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator, Medieval Fantasy City Generator by watabou
Azgaar's Map Generator links to the City Generator in software so that you don't have to do a buch of name changing. There is a learning curve, but not horrible.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
Thank you for your input. I will check out the links.
I use https://inkarnate.com