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The future of the hex crawl? 50+ Free and procedurally generated battle maps

September 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A glance at what the near future of virtual tabletop cartograph could look like (or for people with lots of colour ink!)

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, virtual tabletop

Gorgeous D&D campaign map inspired by Chinese mythology

August 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Leo used Inkscape to create the coastlines, then used Krita for the assets and then finished off in GIMP.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography

Free fantasy world map generator adds battle simulator

June 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

With the latest updates, it is now possible to use the map-maker to generate a campaign world from scratch or custom design it, add cities and locations, add military units and then have them battle.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: cartography, generators, maps

Campaign Cartographer lands on Humble

June 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Campaign Cartographer, a long time favourite set of mapping software used by tabletop gamers, is currently on offer at Humble Bundle.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: campaign cartographer, cartography, humble bundle, sales

Immediately generate a random dungeon map

June 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

You can increase the map area, start adding grids or muck around with the edges within a minute or arriving at the page.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: cartography, generators, maps

Free to Download: One million more square feet of dungeon tiles

June 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Deeper Dungeons explores seven levels from the ruins of a castle in the land above, down into the dungeons below and deeper into a cave network.

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

Handdrawn fantasy maps for sale

May 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The cartographer will also include rivers, lakes and waterfalls on the map and additional small elements like boats or sea monsters in the water.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Etsy, maps

Design your own tabletop RPG battle maps with The Crafty Dice

May 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At Crafty Dice you can design rooms and close up tiles to your exacting specifications.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: cartography, maps, Patreon

Random dungeon generator compatible with real and virtual tabletops

April 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Crooked Staff Terrain has a free online dungeon generator, virtual tabletop files and print-and-paste downloads for cardboard dungeons too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, generators, Patreon

Free to Download: A bundle of Loke battle mats

March 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s an encounter map for Airship Ajax, an arcane circle, a cargo deck, a city tavern, an underground dungeon chasm, ruins, the insider of a shuttle, a siege emplacement, a stone bridge, library and sailing ship and even town streets.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, free to download, loke

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