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Go big, go double: A review of The Wilderness Books Of Battle Mats

January 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wilderness Books Of Battle Mats are another successful project from Loke, albeit within their particular niche.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Loke BattleMats, reviews

Tabletop RPG tech: Infinite Realms plans to bring interactive computer graphics to your actual table-based gaming

January 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Megavoid Studios has plans to bring new technology into play with fully interactive 2D and 3D tabletop projected maps.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: cartography, household

Dungeonfog integration, dragons and rubble: An interview with Forgotten Adventures

January 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The original plan for Forgotten Adventures was to make short written adventures that came with maps.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: cartography

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Forgotten Adventures and 45,000+ free map assets

December 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For free, Forgotten Adventures give away Mapmaking Assets under license. It’s over 5gigs zipped and so don’t download that on a mobile metered internet connection.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, free to download, maps, spotlight

Alyssa Faden’s digital dungeon maps, tokens and assets in £500+ bundle

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve had a bundle of digital assets from cartographer Alyssa Faden and Frog God on Humble before. The latest deal is twice the size.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, cartography, frog god games, humble bundle, virtual tabletop

The Road goes ever on and on: Lord of the Rings cartography shoes

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Why publish a Collection page with just one item? I suggest that Zavvi have more Lord of the Rings goodies to reveal in 2022.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: akedo, cartography, fashion, lord of the rings, shopping, zavvi

Dragon Map Maker: The promise of gorgeous and quick TTRPG battle maps

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We may be onto the next generation of cartography tools. The third generation of solutions supports multiple views and is smart enough to auto-populate the maps with sensible and context details.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, maps, software

Loke Battle Mats 2022 release schedule

December 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are also some great looking products coming out next year, with award-winning Loke Battle Mats pushing further into supplements with titles like The Wilderness Book of Battle Matts and Untold Encounters of the Random Kind.

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

Collectables cartographer builds a map of the most popular board games of the world

December 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Toy Zone started with categories from the Toy Association and Wikipedia. They then cross-referenced that with other popular lists to produce a macro picture.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: board games, cartography, stats

Chronos Builder: A Kickstarter map generator pitch that comes with an impressive gallery of free maps

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This system creates maps, 2.5D rooms and even first-person perspectives by either the traditional way or by asking for a new space in the dungeon, hotel, forest, etc.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, virtual tabletop

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