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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keefe the Thief" data-source="post: 3910747" data-attributes="member: 49552">I´m currently prepping a hard-core points of light Moonsea Campaign, where everything but Phlan is either destroyed or listed as "status unknown". My players are normally high-story roleplayers, but suddenly everybody is pestering me with one wish: "we want dungeons! Gimme dungeons!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Well, no problem. I have the articles about Undermountain from the WotC page, i think about buying the Expedition book, i have a friend who is willing to lend me his old boxed set for reference, and Undermountain has enough portals so it could pose as my generic dungeon, but... well... I´m a completist. What i dream about is this: I have a program that lets me view the maps i scanned from the old box, and that lets me easily and conveniently mark all the areas i need and write down all the relevant information. So, i would go to the "START HERE" entry area below the Yawning Portal, click on the map, and enter my notes, quotes, perhaps even pictures and stat blocks somewhere. During play, all i have to do is click on the area and see all the info i need, perhaps in a separate smaller window, a sidebar etc.Is there a program out there that allows this and is better useable than using .pdfs with comments or photoshop with comments? I have maptool, but it´s not very conventient to browse information i enter into tokens or objects i put down. Note that i will browse the map alone - my players are going to draw their own copy in maptool (we play online). The tool for me would be purely for reference and dungeon building. I have tried many different tools but perhaps i´ve been missing one that allows me to do this with a big map.And if you have additional advice for tackling Undermountain, fire away. Note, however, that i like to prep my sandbox nearly fully in advance - that´s simply my style of DMing. In the best case, i would try to get my hands on all the information that has been released about Undermountain, and compile it all into that very map i´m talking about. Yes, i´m crazy, why do you ask?Oh and a small question for all those that played the original Pool of Radiance Gold Box game. What map would you use for the caves where Norris the Grey hides with his bandits?</blockquote>

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