Debuting a New Free Web-Based Random City Map Generator

As you’re adventuring in your home-brewed world, there are often times where the characters go to a city or town you didn’t plan for.  Or maybe you’re fleshing out a campaign area and you’d like to quickly create a few maps for the various cities and towns in the area.

You could find some maps on-line and reuse them for your own use.  But they might not have a river where you need it, or you may have to take some time removing the names from the map, etc.  There is one tool I know of (even linked/hosted on this site) but it is Windows only, and the output is crude although it is very random and yet often organized semi-coherently.

In any case I’ve built a program to help.  I don’t have a lot of time at the moment to explain it all, but it works by placing layers of transparent images on top of eachother.  Expect another post discussing it in more detail, but for now I’m anxious for some reactions/comments. (Although please see the caveats on bottom of the linked page.  In particular, there will be more street layouts and they will be more random.  But despite that there are already thousands of combinations!)

Here’s the link: http://www.inkwellideas.com/roleplaying_tools/random_city/index.shtml