The Best Tools To Make Dungeons And Dragons Maps 

Let me quickly drop a suggestion for Dungeon Scrawl in here: It's a very simple to use dungeon maker with an equally simple and effective art style. It is 100% free to use and browser based, I used this all the time before finally giving in and buying Dungeondraft :)

Dungeon Alchemist just keeps getting better with every update. The devs are insanely tuned into their community and are constantly surprising us with more than expected. There is currently a 1st person mode so you can see and record what your map looks like from a PC's POV. There is also a cinematic mode which gives you control of a "flying" camera and lets you record and take pics at pretty much any angle and zoom. Motion exports are expected in the next update (Jan 2023) and the themes and biomes just keep on coming. They are working their way through the promised stretch goals from the Kickstarter and who knows where it will go from there. Nice video, by the way. Keep rockin'!

After 5 years of making maps in DPS i still found new ways to make my maps lokk better and better. And shaders in dps amazing. DPS is steel my best tool

I will also suggest Azgar's Fantasy Map Generator it makes almos any world you can imagine with doccen of layers for you politica, ethnic, and religion overview, it's free and yo can import it to foundry

Great tools! Ofcourse you can use this for any ttrpg. Free Leagues very solid solo/ co-op player options for Dragonbane and Forbidden Lands can get milage outta these aswell! Overall great ease of use gizmos for game masters. I will get Dungeon Alchemist for Foundry play and Dungeon Scrawl, Dungeon Draft, Dungeon, Ikarnate forcphysical prints

Owlbear Rodeo is my go-to for maps

I just bought my manuals, an adventure and I will start creating my maps with Dungeon Alchemist and Foundry. I think I'll be using Inkarnate to make maps for props, ones that I can send on Discord to the players whenever they find somethingm idk, I'll have to play around with it. Thank you for this video Jack, very useful info! I'm sure my friends and I will enjoy this when we play(:

Ive used Azgaars to generate the world map layout, then import it into Wonderdraft as a trace image to make a more lore friendly version to show to players.

Really good video!

Thank you for hooking up this video!

Thank you for the great info

There's also GIMP It very powerful and works similar to Photoshop. And it's FREE! Not easy to use (unless you know Photoshop), but if you want extreme detail, this could be a good choice. Can be used for much more than maps. (it's pretty much an alternative to Photoshop and about as powerful).

Have you ever seen those wildly inaccurate renaissance-era world maps? I imagine that's what your wonderdraft map is, in your world. It's not bad art, it's just canon, in-universe understanding of "vibes with some wayfinding" of what the inhabitants know.

Great video. Just what I was looking for. Sub + Like. Keep it going!

have you not heard of Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator?

Uh, the difference between $5 per month and $25 per year is not $10. The cost of inkarnate monthly is more than double.

Unless a year is 7 months, yearly is 35 dollars less than monthly

donjon is a classic lol

Arkenforge

There is no need for a town map. Ever. The information you need to know / reference in order to run a town can easily be done with a list or table or chart. First, decide how big a town is; Approximate population size and approximate distance (miles) across. This is to help you get a sense of scale and scope of the town, nothing literal or precise. Second, for smaller towns and villages, just make a list of key locations (shops, traveler's lodge, church, NPC homes, etc.) and the names of key NPCs found there. For a big town or city, make a list of districts (commercial, residential, education, government, entertainment, recreation, military., etc.). Then make a list of specific locations and the NPCs in each district. For big cities, consider walk times to get from one district to another in abstract units of time such as quarter-hour, half-hour, three-quarters-hour, or hour increments. These walk times are intended to be abstract and purely for DM use for those of you who care about tracking time.

08:59 Good luck getting the modern programmers of these assets to make actual disks for distribution. They consider that to be "Boomer" and "Old-fashioned." :-/

Sorry ahead of time... Donjon is the old English spelling of dungeon. It's pronounced the same. Also, Gaol is Jail and Gaoler is Jailor. Read some Shakespeare!

Looking at DungeonFog. Thoughts??