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<blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5811498" data-attributes="member: 90804">I run my games online and in-person using MapTool. Online is obvious; in-person, I use a <a href="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?p=601" target="_blank">projector</a> to put the map on the table. I'm a big evangelist for this approach, but I know you want to go with printing.I do recommend MapTool for an easy-to-use map-drawing program, assuming we're talking about tactical battle maps and not world maps. My <a href="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?page_id=695" target="_blank">MapTool Education Central </a>can help here - especially the part about <a href="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?p=684" target="_blank">getting the images you need</a> for maps. This will give you all of the background textures and objects you're asking about.I like MapTool because of the price (free!) and the ease of use. The grid is fantastically helpful, and freely resizeable. You can have objects snap to grid or not. You can freely resize and rotate objects as you wish. There's just tons of awesomeness without being hard to use.As for printing these maps, what I do is <a href="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?p=1053" target="_blank">described here</a>. I'm resizing my maps to a one square = 50 pixels scale; you're going for one square = one inch. Same thing in the end, just do the math a little differently (go with inches instead of pixels in Paint.NET). Once you have the image sized the way you want it, use <a href="http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">PosteRazor</a> to create a PDF that's perfect for printing and assembling from normal letter-sized paper.Have fun!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OnlineDM, post: 5811498, member: 90804"] I run my games online and in-person using MapTool. Online is obvious; in-person, I use a [URL="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?p=601"]projector[/URL] to put the map on the table. I'm a big evangelist for this approach, but I know you want to go with printing. I do recommend MapTool for an easy-to-use map-drawing program, assuming we're talking about tactical battle maps and not world maps. My [URL="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?page_id=695"]MapTool Education Central [/URL]can help here - especially the part about [URL="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?p=684"]getting the images you need[/URL] for maps. This will give you all of the background textures and objects you're asking about. I like MapTool because of the price (free!) and the ease of use. The grid is fantastically helpful, and freely resizeable. You can have objects snap to grid or not. You can freely resize and rotate objects as you wish. There's just tons of awesomeness without being hard to use. As for printing these maps, what I do is [URL="http://onlinedungeonmaster.com/?p=1053"]described here[/URL]. I'm resizing my maps to a one square = 50 pixels scale; you're going for one square = one inch. Same thing in the end, just do the math a little differently (go with inches instead of pixels in Paint.NET). Once you have the image sized the way you want it, use [URL="http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/"]PosteRazor[/URL] to create a PDF that's perfect for printing and assembling from normal letter-sized paper. Have fun! [/QUOTE]

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