What games do you use ProFantasy to create maps for?
kevbeck43
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I have used it for...
Dungeons and Dragons 5e.
Blades in the Dark
Mongoose Traveller
Cyberpunk 2020 and Red
Harnmaster 3E
and a couple more I can't remember right now. :) Have you used the product for multiple genres of games or do you just use it for your fantasy maps?
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Ad&d 1e, tunnels and trolls, the fantasy trip, classic traveller, wizard's realm ( rpg from Biloxi, ms), people for the 1e site.
D&d 5e, Carbon 2185.
Almost exclusively AD&D 2nd ed, with a few cases of Warhammer RPG and Warhammer 40K RPG. Not that most of the maps are particularily system-heavy though.
I used to create the maps for the following games:
The below map is finished, but not the game. Design in progress since 2014.
The below is played with the Legion Games Battle of the Little Bighorn game, but I made a custom map for it to explore a tactic in which Custer might have tried to disperse the Pony Herd (ala Captain Biddles' (John Wayne in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" instead of trying to attack the Indians directly. (P.S. My wife wears a yellow ribbon for me sometimes and I give her yellow roses on our anniversery, because I am an armored cavalryman.)
This map is going to be used for a Hammer's Slammers Game (based on the the work of David Drake (and with his permission) if I can get the mercenary flavor done right. A portion of the same map will be used for another episode of Alien Invasion pitting the 116th Armored Cavalry Regiment against a Martian Invasion, partly inspired by a twilight zone episode.
I knew I would forget some. Star Frontiers, SPACE: 1889, The Expanse, GURPS Space.
Little bit of Wing Commander, little bit of Freelancer, both of which are pretty hideous.
Mostly Mythras and Classic Fantasy both published by the The Design Mechanism. Mythras was originally Runequest 6 but changed when the license reverted to Chaosium. Classic Fantasy, originally published as a monograph for BRP is Old School D&D D100 style using a modified version of Mythras.
No doubt I will be using it to create some 13th Age maps at some point...
D&D, homebrew RPG systems, Ars Magica, Call of Cthulhu, Erin (fantasy Irish-myth-based wargames), Laserburn (science-fiction skirmish wargames) and Hordes of the Things (fantasy tabletop wargames), in terms of specific game systems, though a lot of what I've used CC3 and CC3+ for has been to provide maps to illustrate published ancient military history factual articles. I have a lot of hand-drawn maps from other RPG systems going way back too which might be fun to convert into CC maps at some stage. However, the Community Atlas mapping takes up most of my mapping efforts presently!
The Atlas can become quite addictive.
Lets see; Traveller, Space 1889, .45 Adventure, Glorie. New maps for "Rails Across the Rockies", "In Search of the Nile", and "Belter". All of which are "crayon games" and their maps have worn out over the years.
I use ProFantasy products for worldbuilding my own world, as well as the Atlas and just for fun. I don't play RPG's anymore, sadly. I am in a small isolated community, hard to get to anywhere on the mainland (and expensive) and with slow internet - no streaming for me.
I've never played at all.
My interest in mapping is from the angle of being a writer. No published novels as yet, but the mapping is fun :)
You could always start!
AD&D various editions, RoleMaster various, and GURPS.
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Cal
Precisely! Jump on IN, Ms. Sue, the water's fine
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Cal
Sue, there is something called solo roleplaying that might be fun for a writer like you. I know a few writers myself that have used it to break down writer's block when they get it. Its kind of like brainstorming but using the ques created by whatever system you are using to create situations for the character you are trying to unblock so to speak.
Hello and apologies for necro-threading. I am starting to use CC3+ for Cyberpunk maps: I seemed to remember that in previous iterations (CC3?) it was pretty straightforward while now I am having few issues with finding symbols to use. Would you suggest something from previous Annuals?
Thanks in advance! 😊
Interesting thread :)
I use Profantasy software to create maps for Splittermond and occasionally World of Darkness Second Edition.
I've previously also created maps for DSA ("Das Schwarze Auge" - "The Dark Eye" in English).
I've used it for Chivalry & Sorcery games, and Covert Ops, and will be using it quite a bit for Frontier Space.
I used it mainly for Trudvang Chronicles... But also D&D and Warhammer FB, I think. 🙄
I use it to do maps for my worldbuilding project
I've only used it for Cyberpunk Red and Call of Cthulhu.
An addenda to my above comment; I have been using CC3+ to make 18xx game maps. Most notably 1825 and 18Namibia.
Same here, Dalton ;)
I've only created 4 maps for games so it is pretty rare that I bother with that. In fact, I have recently just been drawing maps by hand for game use because the players are going to see them.