If you create your own maps digitally, what do you use as map-making software?
Personally, I am fond of Inkscape, as it gives me maximum flexibility and the vector-based approach is great for scaling and rotating things.
I use Gimp and just hand-draw everything. I’ve learned that players don’t really care too much about maps, so going above and beyond with high quality, ultra detailed stuff is wasted effort unless you derive joy from the creation process.
I settled on Campaign Cartographer 3+.
It has a steep learning curve, but seems to be the most powerful tool by far.
A couple years back I got illwinter floorplan [Link[(http://www.illwinter.com/floorplan/) on steam sales. Which for “indoor map” fits my need.
I don’t play D&D, in general do not use “battle map” but still sometimes like to take time to visualise/describe a situation (and because it can be fun to do)I’ve been using Wonderdraft. It’s resource heavy for my little laptop, but it’s easy to use.
Inkarnate works great and has a lot of usable styles and assets.
