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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 6820320" data-attributes="member: 85870"><p>For an absolute beginner who doesn't want to go "full bore" into the mapmaking hobby, NBOS Fractal Mapper is the best choice, hands down. </p><p></p><p>It's not as powerful as CC3, but dramatically easier to use, and it's user interface / design is built around the more common "paintshop" style interface rather than the highly obtuse CAD. </p><p></p><p>If it's the kind of thing where you want to draw a few lines to shape a continent, do a quick right-click to give it a land-ish looking fill, draw a few trees and place some city markers down, Fractal Mapper is your baby. </p><p></p><p>If you want to try and "pretty up" some of the maps afterwards, export your work to a .png file and import it into GIMP (which costs nothing) and do some advanced tricks. The baseline output of Fractal Mapper looks "just okay" most of the time; you'll never get it to look like the stuff you see on Cartographer's guild or in a Paizo Adventure path with just Fractal Mapper, but to me the baseline output is acceptable for "basic" GM use, and that's probably all you're looking for.</p><p></p><p>The price is actually pretty decent too last I checked, $35 I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 6820320, member: 85870"] For an absolute beginner who doesn't want to go "full bore" into the mapmaking hobby, NBOS Fractal Mapper is the best choice, hands down. It's not as powerful as CC3, but dramatically easier to use, and it's user interface / design is built around the more common "paintshop" style interface rather than the highly obtuse CAD. If it's the kind of thing where you want to draw a few lines to shape a continent, do a quick right-click to give it a land-ish looking fill, draw a few trees and place some city markers down, Fractal Mapper is your baby. If you want to try and "pretty up" some of the maps afterwards, export your work to a .png file and import it into GIMP (which costs nothing) and do some advanced tricks. The baseline output of Fractal Mapper looks "just okay" most of the time; you'll never get it to look like the stuff you see on Cartographer's guild or in a Paizo Adventure path with just Fractal Mapper, but to me the baseline output is acceptable for "basic" GM use, and that's probably all you're looking for. The price is actually pretty decent too last I checked, $35 I think. [/QUOTE]
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