Tenkar's Tavern: Found Some More Free Mapping Resources

Friday, July 1, 2011

Found Some More Free Mapping Resources

Somehow, someway I stumbled across the blog grandexperiement over at LiveJournal. I must have read the link on someone else's blog, clicked it, left it on my iPad and restumbled across it this morning. Therein I found links to two nice mapping applications, the first tile based.

Pymapper looks to be an easy to learn, tile based mapper. I don't ask for much, but this looks like it might deliver.

The other is ditzie. It is web hosted, so your choice of OS shouldn't matter. This seems ideal for PbP games, as the map can be updated online. Pretty cool.

Adding the above to the map resources on the left...

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MikeJuly 1, 2011 at 10:25 AM
You are unto me like a god.

These mapping tools are great, and just what I needed for this weekend.
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TenkarJuly 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM
@mike - those that can, do. those that can't, find tools for those that can

pymaper looks really nice, just haven't figured how to get it working on my mac. i hate booting my pc these days ;)
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PadreJuly 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM
While not willing to acknowledge your divine status, I am willing to say you might be a demigod of all things free. I'm a big fan of Tenkar's Treasure Trove!
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Found Some More Free Mapping Resources

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