How long do you think it took me to draw that city? A split second, in fact, using the
Medieval Fantasy City Generator. You can customize the look and it also gives you the population and the number of buildings. A handy little resource for the harassed referee.
Oh Dave, its been a while since I've posted. Please let me share you this link: [https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/] Once you press F5 enough and find a map you like, scroll in and click on a city. I think that City Generator is also nested in there. I lost three whole days mucking around with importing topography, colours and names while I smooshed Conan's Hyborea and the Elric's Young Kingdoms together. Have fun, but remember I did warn you :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Andrew -- or do I mean "oh dear"? Oliver and I have been wasting hours recently on various online map creator apps, and I can see this one is quickly going to become a favourite.
Deleteeeks - another map generator to get lost in! Though I think I do have that one bookmarked somewhere. So many nice toys out there.
Deletehttps://watabou.itch.io/village-generator has his (her, no real idea!) other things they have created. Click the 'all by watabou' and you will be creating villages, cities, castles, worlds all day long.
I'm now looking for some good dungeon-creating software. Not that I do a lot of dungeons, but Oliver needs it for a Jewelspider scenario so I've been trawling through various apps -- so far not with much success.
DeleteDungeonDraft is pretty straightforward. Or grab a bunch of tiles (there are a lot on DriveThru) and using a simple graphics editor (Paint, Google Draw, etc) you can make whatever you want pretty easily. Depends on the type of dungeon you want.
DeleteIn theory Campaign Cartographer can do dungeons, but so far my dungeon maps have not been good (need time to practice & read tutorials).
and also - there are several sites such as Dyson's that have a lot of dungeons, so no real need to draw your own. Unless, like me, you enjoy doing that.
Thanks, Craig, I'll check out DungeonDraft. I've had some pretty good results using Dungeon Map Doodler and, seeing as that's free and I draw maybe one dungeon map per decade, it might be all I need!
DeleteOne last link I'd thought I'd share to you Dave and also for Craig. I'm taken how this one links things together to form a cohesive world. I can imagine playing through this using Fabled Lands. [https://pendicepaper.com/hexroll/generator/] It makes some lovely HexCrawls!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Andrew, I can see myself having fun with that. (Others might call it wasting time, but that's the best kind of fun.) Now I've just got to find a really good customizable city-drawing app for the map in Vulcanverse book 5.
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