My first foray into craft mapping was a simple as getting some rocks and stones from outside my apartment, cleaning them off and laying them down over some rocks I had placed on an Outdoor Forest Encounter map. I decided to start applying my many mediocre crafting talents to use and combine them with my maps. It was a game changer.Īlways looking to surprise and delight my players with an encounter, I took my mapping to the next step. My players have loved the colored maps, the assets and add-ons CC3+ give my players visuals they’ve only seen on virtual tabletop gaming not ACTUAL tabletop. I first set myself up with a guide for Dungeon Designer depending on what size map I had intended on printing out as several of the vendors I use print in different sizes (such as Staples, Office Max/Depot, and VistaPrint). I did this by hand for years until 2015 when I found ProFantasy’s Campaign Cartographer 3+ and started printing out my maps on poster.
This time I was our Dungeon Master and quickly took up my old habit of making up the maps. This went on for a few months … enter the Satanic Panic of the 80’s, combine that with Italian – very Roman Catholic- immigrant parents and my days of D&D were done.Ībout 10 years or so ago, one of my old middle school D&D friends and I started playing again. I, being the only female in the group, and the most artistic of the lot, usually was tasked with drawing out our GM’s map vision. Some of us, such as myself, needed the visuals for combat, so we graduated to some graph paper, we were luckily required to purchase for math class, some colored pencils (if we were even luckier), a ruler and one set of dice between us. When I first played tabletop roleplaying games our fledgling Game Master strictly used theater of the mind.
Mapping with ProFantasy’s Campaign Cartographer 3+ has brought my home games to life – especially from my humble beginnings. Ralf | J| battle maps, Christina Trani, dioramas, guest article
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