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by SubiculumCode 1189 days ago
Always love new TTRPG tools!! I would love a paragraph about what differentiates this tool from the well known online alternatives. For example: https://app.dungeonscrawl.com/
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So funny thing actually, me and him started working on our sites on almost the exact same day! We both saw some things on Twitter near the start of the pandemic that prompted us to begin these. I know he’s been working hard on a v2 of his site lately, but I took a long break from working on mine and haven’t really been following what others have been up to. Since I’ve been compared to Dungeon Scrawl quite a bit over time, I always said that his felt like it was trying to be a professional tool like Photoshop, with a really complex and powerful interface. I was trying to be more like Paint, a program that anybody can open up and figure out 90% of it just by poking around for a couple minutes.

Between the different drawing tools, the dynamic brushes, the style presets and texture options, you can create a pretty wide variety of maps with it. I know a lot of map making tools create maps with a very obvious style to them, but mine gives you a lot of flexibility while still taking just a few clicks to make it happen.

Hope you have fun playing around with it!