In our current RPG adventure, 'Trailsend,' the PCs need to do winter travel in the north and they also will be going into abandoned towns that are in a state of ruin. It's a large collections of mapping symbol and fill patterns designed mostly for making town and village maps as well as providing a sizeable collection of fill patterns for overland maps. The Vintyri Cartographic Collection Version 2.0 has been around for several years. It may be used for personal and commercial use free. Version 3.0 of the Vintyri Cartograhic Collection now is available for free downloading. But with this message we're announcing a somewhat bigger item. With that, we will be releasing our Jörðgarð Maps regularly again. We've been back at work since November, and starting today we'll be regularly releasing the results of that work.Įarlier this morning, we released Jörðgarð Map No. If I remember, I'll try to find and post some of the maps I made.I won't bore you with details, just say that an accumulation of things among our three members like illness, injury and an unplanned temporary business tour to Thailand caused us to make our annual two-month summer pause into a four-month affair. My suggestion is that, unless you're going to be making a lot of maps, you should find something cheaper/free and easier to use. Mostly I used this on encounter maps, for things like walls.įor source assets, I think I downloaded a giant zip file of objects from Cartographer's Guild.Īnyway, I haven't used it for a couple years now. I also like the ability to add layers and then apply effects to a layer.

The thing I really like about it is that everything is vector-based, so you can easily make adjustments to your map without having to erase something and redo it.

I ran that campaign on and off for over a year, and probably made about 40 encounter maps and a couple of overland maps of different areas of the setting. The control scheme and tool functions are far from being either intuitive or user friendly.Īfter that, I was able to churn out decent maps pretty quickly. It took a full weekend of tinkering to really get comfortable with using it. As it turns out, the only parts I ever used were the CC3 base (for overland maps) and Dungeon Designer (for encounters), so I probably could have saved myself some money. About 5 years back, when I was DMing a D&D 4e campaign, I bought their 'World Builder' value bundle.

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