Fantasy town maps1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() The simplest way to explore the maps is to click the plus/minus arrows to change the Seed. There are so many great novels that could become amazing RPGs! The top fantasy books on Goodreads, for example, are brilliant books that beg role-players to create more stories.This map generator creates volcanic island style maps. It won’t build full maps, but it’s similar to painting a scene that can help with the imagery of any story or game. It’s basically a 3D modeling program that creates animated scenes. There’s a free version, but it’s pretty limited compared to the paid subscriptions.įlowScape is a paid downloadable software that allows you to create your own landscapes. In simpler terms, it’s a tool that lets you create a story bible and attach it to your world’s map. Well, you can write about that war and attach it to said mountain. Let’s say your world had a terrible war below a lonely mountain. You can create timelines or family trees you can write and pin articles to specific points on a map. It lets you upload maps (it doesn’t create the maps) and add all the worldbuilding information you want to them. This is one of the best worldbuilding tools I’ve seen. Other Worldbuilding Tools World Anvil’s Interactive Maps What really shines through with Cartographer is that it has a lot - and I mean a lot - of styles you can choose from to match whatever aesthetic you want in your map. It has a lot of stamps, and other elements you can add to customize the map the software generates for you. It’s a one-time purchase and it lets you create detailed world and region maps. All in all, it gives you beautiful maps and is very intuitive.Ĭampaign Cartographer is a software very similar to Wonderdraft. You can add elements to your heart’s desire with this software, and the really cool thing is the use of a brush that lets you edit those elements even more (like making a lake bigger on one side). You could also use it to create region maps of specific continents, and maybe even city maps (though that’s more of a stretch). It’s used to create detailed continents - similar to Inkarnate, but easier to use and better-looking. This is a one-time purchase software that creates detailed maps reminiscent of Middle-earth. Even though it’s a world map, it’s very detailed, because it shows cities and other points of interest. ![]() What might be the coolest thing about this software is that it lets you populate your map and then run the history of your world forward to see how it changed (cultures spreading or forming states, for example). It generates a world for you that you can edit heavily you can customize anything from land masses to the world’s temperature. WorldSpinner is one of those free-for-30-days-but-you-have-to-pay-afterwards kinds of software. It’s pretty simple, there aren’t that many details you can add to the map, but it’s a nifty tool to generate continents or islands. You can edit the terrain, background, icons and text style once it generates your map and once you like it you can save it as a PNG on your computer. It creates simple maps with almost a hand-drawn style. Unlike other generators, this is a free software that you have to download on your computer. The point is, books and RPGs are closely related, bouncing off each other and creating more stories for anyone to enjoy. There are even books based on RPG campaigns. There have been RPGs from The Wheel of Time, Dune, H.P Lovecraft’s monsters, and even A Song of Ice and Fire. Others are classic table-top games similar to Dungeons and Dragons. ![]() Some of them are more like video games, such as The Lord of the Rings Online (a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG). There are several RPGs based on books, especially ones based on big fantasy series. Luckily there are many ways we can keep stories alive from fanfic to fanart and even to RPGs (role-playing games), there are many ways to explore our favorite worlds beyond the page. I think we as readers often want our favorite stories to live on, even when they’re finished. ![]() She's working on a few stories of her own, always accompanied by her trusty cat. Whether they're book shaped or you can see them on a screen, a story always hides in the corners of her mind. A daydreamer and a bit of a lost cause, Rey loves stories. ![]()
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