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 […]
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For a taste of what's inside, Andrew Girdwood published a piece on 2nd September 2017 noting: "Want free dungeon art? Drummond has made samples available over a Dropbox link. Grab those quickly as experience shows these freebies tend to vanish at the end of the Kickstarter.". It also was tagged with Kickstarters.
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Nostalgia will whack you in the face thanks to this pixel perfect cartography
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 […]
Game grids and battle maps to enhance your tabletop RPG
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 […]
Building the 3D dungeon adventure grid
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 […]
These animated maps turn your D&D into augmented reality
Dynamic Dungeons is a Patreon currently offering one animated map pack a week. Each map is a looping video that shows effects like trees swaying in the wind or the flickering flames of a campfire. Add your favourite miniatures, and a large flatscreen and the videos become a motion map for your D&D or Pathfinder […]
Questing Beast reviews Hex Kit
Hex Kit is a multi-platform desktop app that helps GMS design and build maps for their RPGs. You can pick it up for just $15 from Cone of Negative Energy. Cecil Howe’s project was a Kickstarter that raised $17,148 little under a year ago. It’s not just Windows and Mac that have support; Linux too. […]
Alex Drummond offers up his dungeon art. Free samples.
Back in early 2013 Geek Native was impressed at the cartography of the Drummond Dungeon. Now the artist, Alex Drummond, has his talent wrapped up in a Kickstarter package. You can check out the details at the Campaign Page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epictabletopart/epic-digital-tabletop-art-core-set [Back this Campaign] The campaign half funded in just a few hours. At the time […]
Giant map of roleplaying games
This poster from Inkwell Ideas is a large map of roleplaying games. The RPG poster comes complete with a small set of monster stickers. The idea is to use to stickers to mark the games you’ve played and, therefore, your progress through the RPG dungeon. The games are divided by genre, so you pick an […]
Impressive Star Wars galaxy map
This map is worth checking out. It’s not often you get sci-fi maps and even less often do they attempt to chart out a whole galaxy. That whole maps are 2d and galaxies are 3d thing tends to be the problem. Back in 2009 Dark House and LucasFilms tackled this challenge for Star Wars: The […]
Battlemaps: Dungeon Rooms Vol.IV
Game: Battlemaps: Dungeon Rooms Vol.IVPublisher: 0one Roleplaying Games Series: genericReviewer: WyrdmasterReview Dated: 15th, January 2005Reviewer’s Rating: 7/10 [ Good ]Total Score: 7Average Score: 7.00 “Get me out of this hell hole!” … ah, the famous quote from Baldur’s Gate. One of my regular gaming groups still uses it and chances to do so spring […]
