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Originally Posted by General Pain
excellent map...
how did you make it?
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First I grabbed a random city generator that is good by itself:
http://www.stargazersworld.com/2009/...map-generator/
it's so quick and simple to use, and generates pretty good maps (exported to bmps etc) by itself. However, where it gets really good is that fractal mapper has a plugin which you can use to import a saved map from this programme. Once it's imported it looks better, and you can move things around etc. All I've done to the imported map is drag the roads and rivers out a touch, deleted a few dead-end roads from the random generation, and plopped in a building of my own (the barracks over the river) and the rubble etc. I selected a 20m (I think) hex-grid and we're good to go. I love it because I roll Village as a random encounter and while the pcs are discussing what they are doing I'm quickly generating a map, plus you can print a few for future use.
[edit] by the way the plugin works on the demo and I think the demo exports image files.