#hexographer

[astracampaign]

“Mourning Ridge is... Exciting. Seeing a small town with that kind of tenacity out in the wild gives me hope for us fighting back the wild.”

The village of Mourning Ridge, flanked by the slow clean waters of the Palisades, sits nestled by the gentler, sparser forests southwest of the Rayne Valley ridge. It is a bustling but peaceful frontier town, eager to trade tales and wares with passers-by, and to house and feed strangers and adventurers alike.

[jakaltimes]

SO I’M USING HEXOGRAPHER TO MAP A MEGA MAP

basically, it’ll be a huge world setting for me to plop different D&D campaigns into.

This isn’t the final product. I randomized 21 80x60 hex maps, then stuck’em together. I’ll use the features on them to make the real one.I’ll keep yall posted on the progress!.

[astracampaign]

Rayne Valley

The complete map of our brave adventurers’ starting area, Rayne Valley, where they find their safety and home nestled behind the sparse forest and safe hills of the south. The guild hall and village may be safe, and it’s known there are secure ruins to the north... But what adventure lies nearby?

[bobothetalkingclown]

Heyo, your header looks pretty cool what program did you use to make a map like that?

Hexographer. A newer version of that program has also been released called Worldographer.

:)

[bobothetalkingclown]

Maps I made for the D&D game I’m running (Part 1)

This was the map to the region (the “Valemarch”) that the players got when they first entered it. It’s out of date and specifically incomplete!

This was the map the players got once they fully explored the region...

And this was the map that the players got once they had made strongholds for themselves in the region!

[sappho-official]

Thinkin about doing a hexographer tutorial for how to make dnd/tabletop hexmaps maps look good? Cause like my boyfriend gave me this:

and I turned it into this:

in under two hours

[somewhere-in-the-dungeon]

I recognize I’m getting greedy here but has anyone tried importing Hex Kit’s tiles into Hexographer? I’ve fallen for Hex Kit’s Fantasyland and Traveling Through Dangerous Scenery tilesets, but either Hex Kit is missing a lot of useful editing tools that I’m used to having in Hexographer or I’m going to have to bite a heck of a learning curve.

Right now what I really want is Hex Kit’s tiles and ability to do layers with Hexographer’s childmap function and ability to superimpose grid numbers over the hexgrid, and anyone who can give useful advice in achieving that wins the internet for today.

[vos-dnd-blog]

World/Starmap/Wilderness Map Creation Software

If you play in a sandbox style game world, involve a lot of overland travel in your game, or want to digitize your old school game maps then check out hexographer.

It’s my currently preferred map making program due it’s numerous helpful features. My favorite being the note tool it provides. This tool allows you to write several paragraphs of information tied to each hex you place on the map. Use it to detail locations, or record names, or list monster encounters, weather conditions, roll charts, etc... Due to this tool, I’m almost removed any need for a secondary note location. 

Also provided in hexographer is an understated useful tool which allows you to alter the dimensions of the grid at any time. Make your map too wide? Clip it up. Need to add a few more hexes to let a continent be longer? Add it in. It’s great. It may seem simple, but I’ve found that few other map design programs allow this.

I like hexographer as well because it really allow me as the DM to detail the world mile by mile, and keep track of exact distances in the world. I’ve used paper maps, photoshop maps, Inkarnate, and a few other map systems before, but none of them provide this micro management the way hexographer does.

Lastly, I like the program because it makes me feel like I’m immersed in an old school classic feel of the world map. The hexes are CLASSIC. I definitely found the program through Matt Colville, my D&D dad, and it’s the singular best tool I’ve added to my DM’ing in the last 5 years. (Most of my favorite things about the program require the “pro” version)