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<blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2686711" data-attributes="member: 12332">Lately I just use (Insert Cartographer Here).&nbsp; I've tried just about all of the mapping programs out there, but to get something that looks GOOD, you've got a bit of a learning curve to deal with.&nbsp; Too much learning curve, for me.So lately, for my D&amp;D games, more and more I've been enjoying the boxed mega-modules ... which come with all the maps.&nbsp; For my homebrews I honestly depend on the imaginations of my cast:&nbsp; My last homebrew world had a single map, created with Fractal Mapper, which was a mid-sized image of a planet that I'd put together.&nbsp; Had forests and plains (different green colors) and deserts and rivers and the like, but the map lived almost entirely in its print-out version.&nbsp; I have a single copy of it, somewhere, with inked-in cities and city names and the like.&nbsp; Beyond that, for adventure-locales, I just found free maps online and edited them up in Photoshop (at least I have some skillz there).<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; One reason I really prefer modern-day era games ... Google Maps does all my cartography for me!&nbsp; Bring up a city somewhere, print out a map, there you go.&nbsp; I can even locate and point out local businesses and such on the fly with my laptop and a wifi connection.&nbsp; --fje</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeapThaumaturgist, post: 2686711, member: 12332"] Lately I just use (Insert Cartographer Here). I've tried just about all of the mapping programs out there, but to get something that looks GOOD, you've got a bit of a learning curve to deal with. Too much learning curve, for me. So lately, for my D&D games, more and more I've been enjoying the boxed mega-modules ... which come with all the maps. For my homebrews I honestly depend on the imaginations of my cast: My last homebrew world had a single map, created with Fractal Mapper, which was a mid-sized image of a planet that I'd put together. Had forests and plains (different green colors) and deserts and rivers and the like, but the map lived almost entirely in its print-out version. I have a single copy of it, somewhere, with inked-in cities and city names and the like. Beyond that, for adventure-locales, I just found free maps online and edited them up in Photoshop (at least I have some skillz there). :) One reason I really prefer modern-day era games ... Google Maps does all my cartography for me! Bring up a city somewhere, print out a map, there you go. I can even locate and point out local businesses and such on the fly with my laptop and a wifi connection. --fje [/QUOTE]

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