


Illwinter's Floorplan Generator ( ) - it's a pretty easy to use painter style dungeon builder. two are software applications you can purchase on Steam and the other is a website: Obviously, if you're looking for commercial use then be sure to ask the artist if they're okay with their map being used for that purpose and if they have any requirements such as being references as the original artist somewhere.įor making my own maps, I mostly use three different tools for building encounter maps.
Most of the artists that share their maps are happy for people to download and use their maps, a fair few people who sell maps through Patreon also share freebies of their work in that sub-reddit. Reddit is a really good place to find existing maps, there's whole sub-reddit communities that revolve around making and sharing maps such as r/Battlemaps ( ). i strongly suggest saving these in directories first divided by license type, otherwise you'll loose track - there's thousands of images (at least I did and had to redownload everything).Īlso, and definitely not the in vogue map style, but there's if you want to do regional old-school hex maps.

There's a mountain of free cc0 or attribution-required map assets on (along with many more that require purchase). My maps aren't really professional quality, but i just use gimp (although in the right hands, gimp can definitely be used to make professional- quality maps). dyson has a subset of maps he has released for commercial use.for dungeon maps you can also use random generators.there's a bunch, you just need to search and find the tool you like the most.look for mike's free map collections on dmsguild.below just discusses a few free options - there's a pile of other options that require purchases.įor premade maps you can use commercially: Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft CreaturesĪssuming this is for commercial purposes? if not, just google, there's worlds' worth out there.
