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Quickly re-draw the fantasy map for your RPG: Wonderdraft adds magic lasso tool

May 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What makes Wondercraft’s lasso so impressive is that it automatically fills in the land in keeping with your map, or the sea, as you make changes.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: cartography, maps

This D&D Waterdeep: Dragon Heist battle grid is lost in deadly fog

April 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

There are even sound effects for the scene with the bog bubbling and cracking as the PCs struggled in the mud.

Filed Under: Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Dungeons & Dragons, terrain

Too smart to be true? A book of flat maps for your tabletop adventures

February 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

There’s an early bird $US35 pledge to get the book of battle maps. It’s not clear when that runs out.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters

Wow your players with living maps for Dungeons & Dragons

January 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We first took a peek at Dynamic Dungeons in the first half of last year and checked out some of their living and moving maps for D&D and other RPGs. They have got a few new videos worthy of your time. Modular city sewer living map pack City jail and haunted prison maps What these […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography

Navigate the Enterprise: 6 Star Trek floor plans

November 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has featured marketing efforts from Angie’s List before. They’ve done illustrated architecture which was gorgeous and nostalgic pixel floorplans. I guess geeks make a good audience and there’s some floorplan related service Angie’s List can help with because they’re back for round three. This time it’s Star Trek. Want to see inside a […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: cartography, star trek

9 flying ship battle maps for your Eberron campaign

August 26, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cosmic Cartographer shares their D&D and Pathfinder battle maps under creative commons license over at Deviant Art. That means while you can use them in your campaign you can’t put the art into a sourcebook of your own and sell it on the DMs Guild. You can find all of Cosmic Cartographer’s Eberron creations in […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron

Map maker: Generating a fantasy world atlas

August 17, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Let’s say you don’t want to spend a penny, don’t want to download any software, that you are in a hurry and you need to generate a fantasy map for your RPG campaign. In this post, we’ll look at a map maker that’s capable of generating an entire fantasy world. There are a few software […]

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: cartography, maps

Nostalgia will whack you in the face thanks to this pixel perfect cartography

July 24, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a trick computer games do to create a 3D effect. They take a 2D map and characters and rotate the image until a corner of the rectangle points at you. It’s a way to suggest a depth in perception that isn’t there and is sometimes called two-and-a-half-D or fake 3D. This is the trick […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: back to the future, cartography, Ghostbusters, Millennium Falcon

Game grids and battle maps to enhance your tabletop RPG

July 9, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you use miniatures in your Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder games? Is it a unique playing map each time or something abstract? Many gamers find that PVC game grids are a good compromise. GMs can scribble down the terrain as and when it is needed in as much detail as necessary. Let’s take a […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, maps

Building the 3D dungeon adventure grid

June 10, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Andrew French runs DM’s Den a Tumblr for lovers of RPGs. In his latest post the Bear DM shares the development of 3-dimensional dungeon he built for his players. What’s a 3-dimensional dungeon? Exactly as you would expect; you don’t just have passages that go North, East, South and West but you can go up […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, models

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