Mapping Software

[Zeus]

Found a new (well new to me) set of easy to use mapping tools that I thought the community here might be interested in.

Inkwell Ideas (Main Site) (https://www.inkwellideas.com)
Dungeongrapher (https://www.dungeonographer.com)
Cityographer (https://www.cityographer.com)
Hexographer (https://www.hexographer.com)

The tools are written in Java and therefore available on all platforms. They don't require as steep a learning curve as CC3/DD3 and are more focused than theGimp and Photoshop, so may appeal to the middle ground quite nicely.

The tools are available in a limited Free mode whilst the Pro versions include quite a nice suite of features; I particularly like the city and dungeon generation features as well as links to information. Creating exploded maps with sub-maps seems cool as well.

Anyhow all three seem to be available in a bundle for $76 which seems like a nice bargain. I'm using the free version at the moment and might purchase the full suite. Going to give them all some thorough use this weekend.

[Griogre]

I've been using Hexographer for a while, the free version, and really like it for old style overland maps. I haven't used the others.

https://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m222/Griogre/EsseIslandSmall_zpsdae3854c.png

There is a Fantasy World Generator that uses much of the same symbols at donjon, but it seems have a bad link right now: https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/

[Zeus]

Neat. I have been looking for an easy to use tool to help me recreate a digital version of Krynn for the legendary AD&D Dragonlance DL11 Dragons of Glory battle game. I've been wanting to run this game via FG for a while. Hexographer looks like it might be just the ticket, especially since it includes the classic icon set from AD&D and the Pro version allows for custom icons to be applied.

I've just been playing with the Cityographer tool, the generator is pretty amazing; simply tell it the size, population and variables for vegetation, roads, buildings and you get an instant city (all crossed linked with NPC and other info). Cool stuff.