The number of city section layouts has expanded by one (a new west section that has a circular street layout) and there is also a new large-ish circular tower randomly added in the southern city section. Link: Random City Map …

Free City Maps: Random Fantasy City Map Generator Updated Read more »

“Morrus” (maintainer/admin/? of ENWorld) used my Hexographer project to put together a hex map of the RPG community.  The second link goes to a thread discussing it including a prominent link in the first message to the most current version. …

Hex Map of the RPG Community Read more »

The last Hexographer update from a month or so ago included a new line style: Railroads.  To try out the new feature, I thought I’d put together a large hex map of the United States based on a map from …

Updated Giant United States Hex Map w/Railroads, Circa 1870 Read more »

I’m pleased to announce the beginning of an open beta of Dungeonographer, a map-making program.  The free version is on the Dungeonographer website which is linked below. I’ve posted about the project a couple of times over the past few …

Dungeonographer Map Software Open Beta Begins Read more »

Last week I posted my own hex map of a late 1800s United States of America.  Yesterday, “MAK” posted a large hex map of ~1200AD Europe to the Hexographer forum.  It is beautiful!  The post in the Hexographer forum has …

Giant Hex Map of Europe, circa 1150AD Read more »

To test the latest beta of Hexographer I thought it would be a good exercise to base in on a real map.  I planned (and still do plan) to add in railroads using Hexographer’s new railroad icons, but that will …

Giant Hex Map of the United States, circa late 1800s Read more »

This is the 10th post in a series of map icons, with one key difference from the prior posts: these icons are already in the new beta version of Hexographer!  (Free and Pro.) Previous posts with new icons couldn’t be …

Grazing Land, Grassland Hills and Poor Grassland Icons Read more »

When you’re creating a world for your game or novel, it helps to have a bunch of facts about our world at your fingertips.  This serves two purposes: You get the dimensions of things on our world as a guide …

51 Facts About Our World To Remember When You’re Building Your World Read more »

This is the 9th post in a series of map icons. Because each icon is just a 250×250 pixel transparent PNG you should be able to use them with many map software programs or with general image editors. As mentioned …

Snowfield, Broken Lands and Underdark Broken Lands Map Icons Read more »

This is the 8th post in a series of map icons. Because each icon is just a 250×250 pixel transparent PNG you should be able to use them with many map software programs or with general image editors. As mentioned …

Ancient Soldier and Mounted Knight Map Icons Read more »