Maps & Tools?

[edfig]

Hello,

I'm not an artist... non-the-less, I'm looking for a means to create simple maps for:

Town/City over views...

Shops, rooms.....

Cavern and Dungeon maps....

etc.............

What applications are most recommended? Again, I'd like to keep this as simple as possible. What are my options?

[Griogre]

There are many mappers, some free. Tile based mappers tend to keep things simple.

Free City Mapper: https://www.drachenzahn.de/city_map_generator/city_maps.html

Shops, Room hit up WotC's Map a week (sites down or I'd link).

There are tons of dungeon mappers:
Tile mapper at the WotC site: https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20061121t
And another Stone Sword: https://www.stonesword.com/
Personally I still use Dungeon Crafter2 though 3 is in development: https://www.geocities.com/blood_tyger/
Dungeon Forge is decent too: https://www.dungeonmapping.com/df/public_html/index.php
Jamis Buck Dungeon Generator: https://www.aarg.net/~minam/dungeon.cgi
Fractal World Mapper: https://www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/fwmg/fwmg.html

[mr_h]

I am a fan of Dundjinni. (https://dundjinni.com/)
(Although you do have to pay for it, and it's not the simpliest of applications, you do get nice results)

[edfig]

Wonderful feedback folks!

I appreciate the timely response!

Ill research these tools and return with feedback from myself.

[nezzir]

Here's a new one. It's in beta, but shows a lot of promise. I like what I see so far.

https://www.malleus.dk/forge/mapgen.html

[Jingo]

Nothin' quite like Microsoft Paint. ;) Simple, comes on your computer. Draw something simple, spray some trees on with a green spray paint, plop a grid on top of it and you're good to go... Shapes can be buildings whatever. Remember, most of it is about imagination.

Having said that, I enjoy the wonderfully done artistic map. But I'm not too good at those, so tend to scavenge free maps off the net.

[Rienen]

I've used CC2 for a while (not that I'm any good... but that's lack of skill, not power of the program.)
https://www.profantasy.com/

[NineShadowEyes]

I've been using the 1.4 version of Dungeon Crafter with the extra Abandoned Cathedral images. Very easy (much easier than DC3 - ick). It works very well for simple maps and there are tons of tiles, objects, etc in the Abandoned Cathedral packs.

Diggit: https://www.geocities.com/arouetta/