Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andaran" data-source="post: 5881628" data-attributes="member: 6692727">map maker to create a land map?Since a long time I'm on my search for the right map maker. I stumbled over a lot of map makers and reduced the (probably) best map makers to:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">campaign cartographer 3</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">fractal mapper 8.0</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">dundjinni</li> </ul>Unfortunately I'm still as confused as I was when I started my search. I really hope you guys can help me finding the best map maker for me.[spoiler=short story why I need a map maker][/spoiler][spoiler=short story why I need a map maker]Some years ago I started a D&D campaign in an own world and created a small map of the kingdom and its sourroundings. (crayons and paper for the win!) My plan was to start the campaign in that kingdom and to fill the world, main events, et cetera with playing time, exploration of my groups characters and so on. I ever had a plan of the world in my head so I drew one sheet of paper after sheet of paper. It all started with a DIN A4 sheet, nowadays that map is larger than DIN A1 size. (I guess in north america you have other sizes? DIN A4 = 8.27 × 11.69 inches and DIN A1 = 23.4 x 33.1 inches or 2x "ledger") After years the paper is dirty and the adhesive tape on the map back is not very ornamental. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   I tried a map maker 2 or 3 years ago but my map looked awful and all other stuff I found was too complicated for a casual mapper like me. Now I found that programs above.[/spoiler]What I need the map maker for:I do not want to create dungeons or cities or floor tiles. I just need a map maker to re-draw my map, to expand that map and to print that map. (probably in a copy shop)At last it should be a good looking map (like at the campaign cartographer gallery).What is my skill level:basement to first floor. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I do not have much time to spend (sadly!) and I am far away from beeing an professional grafics artist. I'm just a casual user. So I do not want learn that map maker program for hours and hours before I can start to re-draw my map. (okay I would spend some hours but not days..)I ogle with the CC3, plus fractal terrains 3 and the fantasy overland addon but I'm not sure about the difficulty.So the last question is for you guys:what map maker would you advice me to buy? <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification