Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
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Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
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#2It’s been fun playing with an online DM that has been stretching and upping his game. When he pulled out Dungeon Alchemist especially we were super impressed.
I’ve stopped playing video games for the most part as the impact and sense of wonder just isn’t there for me the same way it is when I play D&D with my online compatriots. We’re even meeting up later this year! It’s been a fantastic experience.
On the topic of D&D tabletop becoming more advanced, Stable Diffusion now has models that can be used to take a simple Donjon map and make it more detailed and add a theme and colorize it. Type a theme like “in hell”, use the model, and use Controlnet’s edge detection. Boom, mostly automated D&D maps that look pretty dang good for a DM.
A few more steps and you’ll be able to automate most of the process, provided interesting NPCs and everything in a self contained adventure that the DM can then tweak.
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#3Amen, real person role playing will remain superior to video games until AIs are more capable and fantastically deprived than humans. Until then, people bring the surprise, serendipity and wonder that makes a new game unique
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#4I can attest to the utility of Dungeon Alchemist... very fast. In an hour or so I had made a small inn/tavern my players will start at and a wilderness encounter map they will do after that, before getting into the manor I built the day before (my first map, so it took a bit longer) in a couple of hours. And they are very nice to look at too.
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#5Foundry VTT has a steep learning curve but it has a good Javascript API and can be extended quite heavily. The community on Discord is large and super friendly: https://discord.gg/foundryvtt
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#6I recently discovered graphic artist JP Coovert's YouTube channel where he shares tutorials for drawing D&D dungeon and city maps:
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#7One that's not on there that's excellent for generating whole worlds: Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator:
https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/
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#8I can attest to the utility of Dungeon Alchemist... very fast. In an hour or so I had made a small inn/tavern my players will start at and a wilderness encounter map they will do after that, before getting into the manor I built the day before (my first map, so it took a bit longer) in a couple of hours. And they are very nice to look at too.
It does have the awkward missing element of no round-walled rooms, though.
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#9Foundry VTT has a steep learning curve but it has a good Javascript API and can be extended quite heavily. The community on Discord is large and super friendly: https://discord.gg/foundryvtt
Foundry VTT is excellent, but it's also not a map creator, so it really doesn't fit the article. Same with Roll20.
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#10It’s been fun playing with an online DM that has been stretching and upping his game. When he pulled out Dungeon Alchemist especially we were super impressed. I’ve stopped playing video games for the most part as the impact and sense of wonder just isn’t there for me the same way it is when I play D&D with my online compatriots. We’re even meeting up later this year! It’s been a fantastic experience. On the topic of…
How did you find your online role-playing group? There are a lot of sites (after a quick google search) and I'd love to have some suggestions.