However, in the Style menu, I will select Heightmap and pick Light for the Colour Scheme. It’s even possible to render the map with a sepia filter, which is tempting, but the effect doesn’t quite work for me in this instance. It is possible to filter this fantasy map to put it into grayscale, make it look dingy or have it tinted. When I hit New Map again I get to see my changes.

In this nameless fantasy world humans dominate, a single empire rules, and so there a fare fewer distinct ways of life. The last thing I tinker with in this round is decreasing the Culture Count. Counter-intuitively this decreases the amount of space between countries which has the effect of making seas less common. Now, to get that Warhammer fear I ramp up the Neutral Distance by about 200%.

This change will mean fewer countries but encourage them to be about the same size. I reduce both the States Count and States Disbalance by a little. That’ll add more cities and towns to the map. I increase the number of Burgs by about 30%. Besides, I can always zoom in on just a corner and only share that version of the map later with my players. However, there are still some options to explore to make a map base that better reflects the vast empire I’m after. We’ll always get whole continents, islands or atolls. Some fantasy RPGs like to have their ‘world map’ as nothing more than a peninsula with unknown lands around the edge, or deserts, but that isn’t possible here. Clicking into Options I can see that my map loaded with ‘Heightmap template’ Archipelago. Map maker: Turning islands into continents Clicking on that lets me tinker with the map. In the top left of the fantasy map generator, there’s an arrow icon. It looks I’ve got a bit of work to do with my fantasy map as I’ve generated a collection of medium-sized islands and I want more of a formidable land mass. As I’m currently resisting the urge to buy Cubicle 7’s Warhammer 4e, let’s try and create a fantasy world map that feels more like that one. I’m going to take things a little further and see just how adaptable Azgaar’s map maker is. If you want you can stop work there, if the site has loaded then you have successfully generated a fantasy atlas. There’s nothing to do except wait for the site to load before you get your first map. There’s a strong candidate in the form of Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator, so let’s take a look. There are a few software downloads that contain map makers or which are dedicated map makers but after discovering this excellent fantasy city map generator which runs entirely in the browser. In this post, we’ll look at a map maker that’s capable of generating an entire fantasy world. Let’s say you don’t want to spend a penny, don’t want to download any software, that you are in a hurry and you need to generate a fantasy map for your RPG campaign.

Fantasy world creator map