Want to create complex maps showing every detail you can think of and available from the assets?.Need to create something in the break in the middle of your D&D game because the players went in a totally different direction you thought they would?.Want to create a map in minutes, if not seconds?.Dungeon Alchemist™ – A new Era in Mapmaking So, this is where the new tool in the arena comes in… unless you get so carried away you end up taking hours to create a map. A lot more detail is now possible and does this distract from the creative imagination aspect of RPGs? Yes, I think so however this is not necessarily a debate for here, although it might be touched upon again.ĭigital mapmaking tools can be time saving, but time still has to be spent in creating maps, time many people don’t seem to have as much of these days. Included in this is the advent of online ‘virtual tabletops’ allowing for remote play, where map packs from creators can be purchased and use within the vtt, or upload your own maps. Twenty years on the world of map making has changed with the onset of digital tools in the last few years, such Wonderdraft, Dungeondraft, (other tools are available), and even my use of ArtRage, a painting software. As DM I then drew my maps, adding more detail, but rarely the intricasies of every item in a dungeon or room. First ever standalone session I played in there were no maps.įast forward ten years when I started playing regularly when pupils in the school library I manage taught me to play, simple maps were all we had plus our imagination. Much of what was done around the table was ‘theatre of the mind’ – players had to imagine what the DM was describing to them set within the bounds of the simple map, if there actually was one. When we think of Dungeons and Dragons (and other RPGs), we used to think of groups of people sitting round a table, snacks, dice (usually a huge number dice because, well… dice!), a hand drawn line map, or something more fancy, yet still home made, with a Dungeon (or Game) master leading and facilitating a party of imaginery adventurers through a dungeon or heading out on a quest.
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