Calling tabletop roleplayers!
16 years ago
General
Anyone know a good map/room creator for use in a modern campaign setting? Am hoping for a Shadowrun group at some point and like to add eye candy to the table so players have a better idea of the situation they're in. Also helps me in not having to keep answering questions like...where is the nearest exit, where are the windows, how many doors are there and a dozen other queries that can be auto answered by simply looking at the map before them.
Dundjinni is awesome in detail and vibrancy, but its downsides are high cost (both in attaining the program and the cost in color ink when printing maps. Its also very unintuitive in the interface department, even with the manual's help.
Currently playing with Smartdraw. Black and white office, house, club, room, lobby, warehouse etc etc blueprints (easily changed to classic BLUE blueprints using colored paper ^.^), outdoor landscapes, and a very simple click and drop interface, auto line straightening when drawing freehand, and customizable templates.
Plenty of map creators for fantasy settings, but very few for modern, most creators are aimed at medieval/dungeon setting
Dundjinni is awesome in detail and vibrancy, but its downsides are high cost (both in attaining the program and the cost in color ink when printing maps. Its also very unintuitive in the interface department, even with the manual's help.
Currently playing with Smartdraw. Black and white office, house, club, room, lobby, warehouse etc etc blueprints (easily changed to classic BLUE blueprints using colored paper ^.^), outdoor landscapes, and a very simple click and drop interface, auto line straightening when drawing freehand, and customizable templates.
Plenty of map creators for fantasy settings, but very few for modern, most creators are aimed at medieval/dungeon setting
Nanukk
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My roleplaying group normally using a grid with figures. So if you have figures and make a grid or by a grid piece, you could use a glass slab to draw around the grid, or use pencils and dice to show walls and objects.
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