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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maidhc O Casain" data-source="post: 6145930" data-attributes="member: 29558">I'm a big fan of pretty maps.For published products I convert the included map to a .png file and use Photoshop to edit it. This works because both the file type and the image editor allow the use of layers. I put each token on it's own layer, and fog of war on a layer by itself as well. So at the beginning of each round, I open the image in Photoshop, move the tokens to their correct place, erase whatever bits of the fog of war they've uncovered, and then save it with a new file name (just so I have a visual record of each round of the combat). Once you get the initial map set up, it's actually not that much work to update each round.The only thing I don't like about this method is that the grids for published maps are often not actually square - it just bothers that "neat and tidy" part of me <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" />.Getting it to ENWorld can be either simple (just attach it to the post) - requiring participants to open the file any time they want to look at it - or slightly more complicated (put it in Photobucket or some other image storage service) and the put the image file directly into the post. This way they can look at the image as they write their post.Some folks use MapTools - I've tinkered with it some, and like it OK but have never really sat down to learn how to use it well.There's also a site a lot of folks on MythWeavers use that actually allows individual players to move their own tokens around, but I can't remember the name of the site right off hand.And some of my friend actually use very simple Excel spreadsheets with the grid adjusted to square size. The use simple lines to make the maps "old style" without any fancy graphics, and letters to represent each player on the board. That way works quite well.For my current LPF game, I actually reproduced the map using Campaign Cartographer, and then printed it as a .png and am using the method described above. Mainly so I could get the aforementioned square grid . . .</blockquote>

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