I use Dungeon Alchemist. Excellent for quick maps, though you will find yourself spending many hours making the perfect map for your situation from time to time. There's also constant free updates with huge additions to assets, biomes, QoL and so on, with a -huge- update due in a month or so. The community is great too; thousands of user-made assets and maps are available free on steam workshop. Devs are very active and take community requests and ideas well. If you'd like examples of what sort of thing can be done, I have hundreds of free maps here that were made in DA. Answer from -SaC on reddit.com
Reddit
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r/DnD on Reddit: Steam map makers - experiences and recommendations?
May 1, 2024 -
There has been a surge of map maker "games" on Steam. I am curious about them, as I was never the biggest fan of Inkarnate for city maps in particular. Has anyone tried some of them?
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I use Dungeon Alchemist. Excellent for quick maps, though you will find yourself spending many hours making the perfect map for your situation from time to time. There's also constant free updates with huge additions to assets, biomes, QoL and so on, with a -huge- update due in a month or so. The community is great too; thousands of user-made assets and maps are available free on steam workshop. Devs are very active and take community requests and ideas well. If you'd like examples of what sort of thing can be done, I have hundreds of free maps here that were made in DA.
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for battle maps i use dungeondraft, for world maps i use inkarnate, and for city maps i draw them myself in firealpaca.
Steam
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Dungeon Alchemist
Dungeon Alchemist comes jam-packed full of exciting and inspiring objects and settings. Start your mapmaking adventure by picking one of our themes.
Price US$35.99
DUNGEONFOG
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DUNGEONFOG | Free RPG Battle map editor for D&D
Use DGNFOG for free. No purchases or credit card required! Create your own maps with Fantasy assets and textures or search our ever-growing public library to find the optimal map for your adventure.
DungeonAlchemist
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Dungeon Alchemist | Amazing Maps in Seconds
Dungeon Alchemist is a mapmaking application for tabletop RPG's that enables you to make amazing, high-quality maps in seconds!
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Dungeon Scrawl
dungeonscrawl.com
Free D&D Map Maker | Dungeon Scrawl
Free online mapmaking tool for tabletop rpgs like Dungeons & Dragons - no sign up required. Create battlemaps with ease, export as an image or PDF, use them in rpg adventures!
Reddit
reddit.com › r/dnd › there's a steam software for mapmaking, for those of you on roll20. they are also printable if you want to do that.
r/DnD on Reddit: There's a Steam software for mapmaking, for those of you on Roll20. They are also printable if you want to do that.
May 1, 2016 -
http://store.steampowered.com/app/630900/Illwinters_Floorplan_Generator/
Original poster here: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlemaps/comments/6j0cig/illwinters_floorplan_generator_steam_summer_sales/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Edit: It is also on the steam workshop so you can make your own tiles and whatnot for more specific maps. Hopefully, a lot of people start making packs for it.
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Gonna be totally honest, I've had a lot more success with Dungeon Painter studio with the Abundance of steam workshop support. It's files can be exported for roll20, fantasy grounds, and even as PDFs. I feel like it does a better job at presenting detailed maps than illwinter's
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Arcane Mapper and Dungeon Painter Studio are the two other map making software options.
Reddit
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r/DnD on Reddit: Free map makers
July 19, 2023 -
I’m running campaign in the desert and I’m having trouble finding a good map making software and I don’t want to find a map off the internet, any suggestions?
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It's not free, but it was worth every penny to me, Wonderdraft is a really easy to use map making software, and if you want battlemaps instead of world maps, their other product DungeonDraft is great too.
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I'm a pencil and paper kind of person. Get out some paper and start drawing, it doesn't need to be perfect, any discrepancies can be chalked up to the NPC map maker not knowing the terrain.
Pyromancers
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Dungeon maps for RPG. Create maps online, download as PDF and PNG.
Dungeon Painter is a powerful rpg map design tool. Scene Viewer is a free encounter mapping tool that you can embed into forum or blog posts
Chaotican Writer
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5 Awesome Fantasy Map-Making Tools on Steam - Chaotican Writer
December 18, 2024 - Subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a FREE 11-page Fantasy NPC Generator PDF! Release Date: April 2021 – Cost: $5.99 (Sept 2024) Platform: PC – Developer: Danial Rashidi · While this tool flew under the radar, and was unsupported shortly after launch, it’s a noteworthy addition to a worldbuilder and map makers digital toolbox.
Steam
store.steampowered.com › app › 592260 › Dungeon_Painter_Studio
Dungeon Painter Studio on Steam
Dungeon Painter Studio
Dungeon Painter Studio is a powerful encounter map design tool, with a lot of features: Layers and groups Easy import of custom art Easy export to roll20, FG, TS, and other VTT All objects are editable Filters (Drop Shadow, Glow, Bevel, Tint...)
Price US$14.99
Steam
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Canvas of Kings
It's not perfect and not finished yet, but I would be very happy if you use it and thus support my work. Your feedback is very welcome! You can find examples of maps built with Canvas of Kings in the Steam Workshop and on my Discord.
Price US$17.09
D&D Beyond
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Best map makers? - Dungeon Masters Only - Dungeons & Dragons Discussion - D&D Beyond Forums - D&D Beyond
It is limited on it's ability to do angled or curved walls (or was last I used it). However it is pretty dang good at providing lighting and and ambience and making some very very fun maps. It is not free but I don't regret the investment. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1588530/Dungeon...
Steam
store.steampowered.com › app › 2295940 › Master_of_Realms
Master of Realms on Steam
The full version will feature: Complete functionality across all modules Additional map themes and visual sets Expanded asset library for players to create detailed and diverse maps Further UI/UX improvements and performance optimization The full version will provide a comprehensive, polished toolset for end-to-end map creation, with all visual themes and creative options available.”
Inkarnate
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Inkarnate - Create Fantasy Maps Online
Create fantasy maps online. With Inkarnate you can create world maps, regional maps and city maps for dungeons & dragons, fantasy books and more! FREE SIGN-UP!
YouTube
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Talespire - A Fantasy Map Maker & Dungeon Builder
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
MapForge
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Links to map-making apps – MapForge
May 28, 2024 - Free demo available. https://www.dungeonfog.com/ Dungeon Tile Mapper http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20061121t · Illwinter’s Floorplan Generator Available on Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux http://www.illwinter.com/floorplan/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/630900/Illwinters_Floorplan_Generator/ Map Maker Free.
Wargamer
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Best DnD maps
March 18, 2024 - We rank the best free Dungeons and Dragons maps and premium DnD map maker tools - perfect for any 5e DM looking to upgrade their next campaign.
Dungeon Map Doodler
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Dungeon Map Doodler
Dungeon Map Doodler is a new, free to use drawing tool accessible from any web browser. Easily create maps for your favourite tabletop RPGs in minutes!
Dicebreaker
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10 best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds | Dicebreaker
March 15, 2023 - Though not browser-based, it’s a free product with incredibly fast response times and an intuitive user interface. For those that want a D&D map maker with none of the fuss, Dungeon Scrawl might be worth taking a look at.
Steam
store.steampowered.com › app › 598180 › Arcane_Mapper
Arcane Mapper on Steam
Arcane Mapper
Arcane Mapper is an easy to use tool for creating maps for roleplaying games. The tool can produce top down, forced perspective 3D looking environments that mesh well with simple images for objects - no modeling or 3D experience required.
Price US$9.99