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beyonder Adventurer Keeberon Player Offline I'm so green. Posts: 196 Uptown Gender:	Makin' Maps May 12^th, 2010 at 7:41pm I need to make some maps for a game I'm starting. I found AutoREALM which looks useful, but the maps themselves are kind of ugly. I also found Campaign Cartographer, but I don't feel like paying the money. Wat do? Suggestions?
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hewhorocks Wyvern Offline " Posts: 498 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Makin' Maps Reply #1 - May 12^th, 2010 at 11:03pm Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Not as pretty as some but functional and free. The paid version is a little better but even the free one works
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Red Priest Adventurer Offline I'm after rebellion; I'll settle for lies. Posts: 134 Gender:	Re: Makin' Maps Reply #2 - May 16^th, 2010 at 5:09am Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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hewhorocks Wyvern Offline " Posts: 498 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Makin' Maps Reply #3 - May 16^th, 2010 at 6:19pm Priest, I had you pegged for a hex paper guy...learn something new everyday.
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Red Priest Adventurer Offline I'm after rebellion; I'll settle for lies. Posts: 134 Gender:	Re: Makin' Maps Reply #4 - May 17^th, 2010 at 2:17am LOL.. you were actually spot on, but I couldn't find a good image of a hex paper.
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Re: Makin' Maps
Reply #5 - May 17^th, 2010 at 2:22am

My suggestion, however, was only half tongue-in-cheek. After using CC for awhile, I went back to hand drawn maps, and discovered I actually get more enjoyment that way. Sometimes I use color pencils, but mostly, I stick with simple line drawings.

I'm not knocking CG maps, some of them look pretty good, but there's just more visceral appeal to using pencil and paper for me these days.

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Reply #6 - May 17^th, 2010 at 2:38pm

Hand drawn maps are good fun but have historically suffered from soda spills, cat attacks, and various other calamities. I like CC because it allows for easy replication, easy rescaling (to add more detail or zoom out) and i can email my self a copy so I always have access..even in the even of a 20ft high wall of water and debris crashing into my house...

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Re: Makin' Maps
Reply #7 - May 17^th, 2010 at 3:11pm

Priest: I ended up just busting out the graph paper. I took a look at Campaign Cartographer and found the art to be too slick-looking. I tried another app, AutoREALM, which was free but was a tremendous pain in the ass to use and the art was terrible. It was also just generally clunky. Interesting note: Apparently AutoREALM was written in Delphi using TurboPascal. Weird, right? I mean, who are these people?

All I want is something that allows me to quickly throw something together without it looking terrible. It'd also be nice to have click-able annotations. I'd write one myself if I wasn't so lazy.

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Selected-By: Tim Chew <twchew@mindspring.com>

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
> Are there any games harder than Nethack?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} Life is pretty tough, everyone I know ends up dying.

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Red Priest Adventurer Offline I'm after rebellion; I'll settle for lies. Posts: 134 Gender:	Re: Makin' Maps Reply #8 - May 20^th, 2010 at 5:21am hewhorocks wrote on May 17^th, 2010 at 2:38pm: Hand drawn maps are good fun but have historically suffered from soda spills, cat attacks, and various other calamities. Ahhhh .. that's called character.
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hewhorocks Wyvern Offline " Posts: 498 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Makin' Maps Reply #9 - May 20^th, 2010 at 11:18pm Well the nice thing about software created maps is no degrading of the source material due to character and personalized reproductions/ modifications are quick to do.
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