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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 7993877" data-attributes="member: 6998052">Not so.With MapTools any jpg or png is a map. There are literally thousands of free or very low cost maps available on the Net; I've got several gigs worth.You pick a suitable map, click on it, adjust the grid so the pogs are the right size (takes a few mouse clicks), then add monster pogs, information markers with cut &paste descriptions, markers for traps, locked, spiked, or chained doors, and lastly (my method) add the PC pogs at their likely entry point.I recently prepped the three-level fire giant hold (against the Giants) in detail in under an hour. It took us over ten hurs of table time to complete it. Any PNG or JPG can be made to a pog in seconds. I used to use top-down pogs, but now PCs are square pogs, NPCs are hex, and monster/foes are round with different borders to remind me of certain facts.You can tailor make pog states so the party healers can see who is hurt and how bad, who is under this effect or that, who is flying, and so forth. It removes so many distracting administrative issues, and brings the game to life in a way no other asset can.</blockquote>