5 Free Map Tools for Dungeon Masters
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Published 2018-12-08
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Donjon: donjon.bin.sh/world/
Tectonics: davidson16807.github.io/tectonics.js/
Azgaar's Fantasy Map Gen: azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/
Inkarnate: inkarnate.com/
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All Comments (21)
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Correction: Thanks to some of you pointing it out, it looks like Azgaar's DOES allow you to shape your coastlines. It's not 'drawing' so much as choosing areas to raise out of the water (or lower I assume) using the heightmap tool. Map on! :)
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me on tectonics watching my continents slowly drift towards each other. Oh yeah. It's all comin' together.
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"Especially if I'm struggling to come up with a shapes that look good" I took a picture of some clouds and used that as an outline for the country. It turned out pretty good.
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Imagine a 50,000 year old elven druid guiding as group and suddenly stopping after exiting a dense forest like: Druid: Oops, i don't remember this mountain to be here, certainly wasn't there when i last visited this place. Group: When did you last visit? Druid: i think i was around 1000 years old or something. Now you can simulate this with realistic plate tectonics. Or a more reasonable example: Earthquake regions!
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Actually Azgaar's Map Generator does allow you draw coastline, using the height map tool.
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As a nerdy paleobiologist, the tectonics one is kinda of a wet dream! :D I try to apply basic concept of geology and paleobiogeography to my world building, and as a result, I spent more time deciding the past of my worlds than the present, and often never actually finishing it! It's a good thing there's a tool that could save me some time! Good call!
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We all know Dwarf Fortress is the ultimate world generator
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Azgaar is pretty great. You can zoom all the way in, it even places cities and forts and stuff on the map and names them all. It also gives you the ability to change almost everything after the generation, names, place cities, etc.
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I’ve been watching your videos for almost 2 years now, they keep getting better and better. Keep on doing what you do.
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You actually can create your own maps in Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator. You can edit the terrain, create entire continents and islands. You use the Heightmap editor, as well as the coastline editor. I made my entire novel map using Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator.
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There is a few you didn't mention that I think are fantastic.Worldographer, Dungeonographer, and cityographer. Super custom, and make great maps. They are free or you can make the one time purchase for pro. That is what I use, thanks for the other suggestions though I am checking them out right now.
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You could totaly use the 3D model to take a screenshot and than put in in a background layer of any photoshop-like software and trace the lines, delete the screenshot, than add some details by hand, so it accltually looks like painted street view, instead of some flat generated models. That could give you a picture you can with no shame put in front of your players for visualization, while you don't have to be master artist to create it.
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“I’d like to thank my patrons for their support” -casts eldritch blast
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I'm rewatching this video in November 2020 and it's amazing to see how far Azgaar has evolved in two years.
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It’s funny, how I commented on the wonderdraft video and how it isn’t free, and THEN discover you have a video focused on the free tools. Awesome man! Thanks for these videos!
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I prefer Hexagrapher to Inkarnate, because, while theyre both hex based, Hexagrapher has a customization scale (and larger maximum scale) can randomly generate maps or allow for custom maps, and has more textures for terrains and environments. Plus it's not web based, so you can use it even if the internet goes down.
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Inkarnate claims ownership of everything made placed or "displayed" on their website via their terms of service (found via a disturbingly small button on the bottom of their home page). This means that anything you make on your website is under their copyright ownership and you can only use it (for say a book or something) if you maintain their subscription service (effectively considered a license fee).
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This video was published right when I was looking around for map making tool recommendations, so I'm very grateful for the timing. I've liked other videos I've seen from you as well, so I guess now I'm subbed :D
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Hexographer and its major revision Worldographer, Cityographer, Dungeonographer all by Inkwell Ideas. There are free and pay versions of all but Worldographer. They have several other free tools. Hexkit is one for worldmaps with hand drawn tiles. One can even add their own.
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One of the neat hidden features of Azgaar is each city generated on the map has a little folded map icon in it's drop down menu. When you click on the icon, it takes you to Watabou's fantasy generator, and the link is consistant. You can save it as a .json file and the links are preserved!
