This is a thread for posting, sharing, discussing, giving advice, and sharing stories and experiences related to maps for RPGs. too scale maps and things that can be converted into maps for positioning tokens, as well as "setting maps" and in universe maps.
- maps with grids on them - things that can easily be fitted with a grid to make a map - tips and information on drawing maps, figuring out the scale of things on something you want to turn into a map, and other processes of map making - analog and digital tools for making maps - and more
Some digital tools for making maps or things you use with maps like tokens. RPtools rptools.net/toolbox/ (I mostly use token tool for making tokens to use in Roll20 but I installed maptool and am trying to learn how to use it. Apparently before Roll20 was a thing people not only used it to make maps but to host games. There are downloadable libraries of resources for maptools floating around on the internet) CS2d cs2d.com/ (the walls will be abnormally thick but it’s relatively easy to make maps to a consistent scale using this) Roll20 app.roll20.net/ (generates grids that you can adjust the size of as well as what one square or hex represents in length. This means that if you find a top down drawing done to scale and can work out the relative length of a standard measurement on it [say 5 feet] you can adjust grid settings on Roll20 to make a useful map out of it.) Please do feel free to share more advice or tools if you have them. It’s generally more difficult to find maps for modern or future settings then it is for fantasy settings. So any advice or sources you have on those would be greatly appreciated. For instance if you are looking for scale drawings of modern cargo ships to use as a map I’ve found “general arrangement and capacity plan” to be a useful term to search for.
>For instance if you are looking for scale drawings of modern cargo ships to use as a map I’ve found “general arrangement and capacity plan” to be a useful term to search for.
This is one of the drawings I found using that.
Since this plan is metric and the game system I'm using uses imperial, I needed to make a scale indicator for sizing a grid for it.
I did this by opening up the image in GIMP and using the rectangular select tool to measure the the pixels in one of the measured dimensions on the plan. (I used the distance between the AP [aft perpendicular] and FP [fore perpendicular])
GIMP can do measurements in pixels or imperial so after crunching some numbers I was able to figure out how many pixels tall or long 5 feet would be on the image and added a labeled 5 foot bar on to the map to help when scaling the grid in roll20.
For the OP pic map it was easier to convert since all I had to do was make a 5 foot bar in GIMP, shrink it to 1:200 scale, and paste it into the map since the Frasier apartment is labeled as being 1:200 scale.
Julian Lopez
Here is another.
James Sanders
Those are really nice
Jace Wood
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Dominic Sanchez
lol Europe turned 90 degrees.
Does anybody have advice on where to find floor plans or scale layouts of offshore oil rigs or at least their living quarters area?
Aaron Thompson
Any advice for making a map of a large museum would be greatly appreciated.
Austin Anderson
what kind of museum is it?
Do you want just the exhibits or do you want all the storage, work, and machinery spaces that the public don't get to see?
What subjects they cover and what exhibits and artifacts they are responsible for will effect how it is set up.
Levi Collins
It's intended to be a sort of omnidisciplinary museum. Some history, some science, some art and culture, lots of stuff. I know those aren't really a thing, but being locked in here is intended to be a multi-session event. The idea is three stories and a basement, with two offshoot buildings with corridors leading to them, probably with each floor/building being focused more on a certain field.
And just the exhibits, really: this is supposed to be in the same style as maps that visitors are shown in brochures or on signs, to help them find their destinations. The machinery and whatnot does exist, but it won't be on the maps.
Gavin Martin
then I would pull up some example floor plan maps and museum maps on google images and take cues from those. and make something similar in Photoshop or GIMP.
IRL museums tend to be limited in subject matter, even the multi story ones.
try searching for maps or floor plans of things like art museums, or maritime museums, air museums, military museums, ect.
Parker Cox
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Colton Torres
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Alexander Thomas
How do you store your maps to keep them from getting ruined when you don't have them out on the table?
Zachary Roberts
pvc pipe with slip caps
Great thread, don't die.
Jeremiah Morgan
Great thread, about ded.
Blake Lewis
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Owen Roberts
not on my watch
Hudson Edwards
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Luke Perry
Holy shit 4craft
I played on a different year than this though, I was /toy/
Aaron Barnes
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Juan Brown
Veeky Forums's plans to go full dorf ultimately failed.
Thomas Torres
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Thomas Cruz
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Andrew Thompson
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Luke Richardson
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Dominic Carter
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William Perry
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Jason Hill
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Jace Collins
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Thomas Ward
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Jaxon Flores
Ooh! i have my new counterstrike map!
Parker Ward
Someone made a hex map of the entire world from Avatar: The Last Airbender, anyone have it?
Gabriel Gray
oh and it wasn't the civ 5 map you get when googling it
Asher Peterson
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Cameron Morris
ooh this is a nice one
Logan Flores
TF2 concept map?
Isaiah Scott
Where are the other floors?
What was 4craft?
John Green
It was a minecraft server where each board was a faction with it's own island
Thomas Cox
>Alps >Protecting Italy lel
Ryan Long
That sounds cool, though potentially prone to problems.
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