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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 4393748" data-attributes="member: 50895">It dependsAutorealm is not bad for a dungeon generating application that is free. Although I've never used and probably never will. There are many applications that create nice looking dungeon maps. But it really depends on you. For the free apps - Inkscape is an Open Source app much like Adobe Illustraor, though has somewhat of a learning curve. More complex than Autorealm, but then Inkscape is a full fledged desktop publishing application than just a simple map generator. For paid for applications, both ProFantasy Campaign Cartographer 3 with addon Dungeon Designer, and Fluid's Dundjinni make high quality dungeon maps - both are priced around $40 USD. While CC3 can create world maps, regional maps, city maps and dungeon maps at various scales, Dundjinni is ideal for tactical scale maps where 1 inch = 5 feet indoor/outdoor/dungeon maps. Both also hava huge community support with plenty of free map objects available. Many prefer the freedom of using a vector application like Inkscape or a raster image editor like GIMP, both are free and extremely powerful. I would highly recommend GIMP and visit the cartographersguild.com site tutorials forum and search for RobA's tutorial for a regional map with GIMP as a place to start. In the end it depends on you, what you're comfortable with and what you are willing to learn. I use a combination of GIMP, and mostly Xara Xtreme for my mapping tools. Visit cartographer's guild to see each of these apps in action throughout the various posts. Pick a style you like, ask questions about it and you will get some excellent advice. GP</blockquote>

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