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Roleplaying City Map Generator

Some time ago I read about an awesome freeware city map generator for Windows. But alas the creator’s site is down for quite some time now and it’s pretty hard to find a copy of the map generator on the web. So when I finally found a copy, I decided to host a copy of the latest version of the Roleplaying City Map Generator at my Google Sites site for your convenience.

RPG City Map Generator (.MSI) 1788k (Download)
RPG City Map Generator (.ZIP) 1605k (Download)

City Map - Small Town with town wall
By the way, if you know some interesting (and preferrably free) map creator software, please let us know in the comment section of this post! Thanks!
Update: Several people reported that the zip file got somehow corrupted. I reuploaded it and added the unzipped version.
Update #2: I uploaded the latest version of the software (v5.40) and removed the ZIP download. Thanks to Di for providing me with the latest version.

This entry was posted by Stargazer on February 27, 2009 at 13:09, and is filed under Advice, RPG, RPG tools. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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#1 written by Lurkinggherkin 2 years ago

Awesome indeed. Thanks!

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#2 written by bonemaster 2 years ago

Glad you found what you were looking for. I'll have to check on this application when I get some time today. I'm always in the mood for something to take away from what I have to do.

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#3 written by Joe 2 years ago

For random generators, you may want to look at the 7 random dungeon generators I reviewed recently:
http://www.inkwellideas.com/?page_id=125

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#4 written by xero 2 years ago

'can not open roleplaying_city_map_generator.zip as an archive'

bummer.

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#5 written by Stargazer 2 years ago

Try downloading it again. This obviously happens once in a while. The Google Sites pages seem to be under quite some stress at the moment.

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#6 written by RuminDange 2 years ago

Can not open the roleplaying_city_map_generator.zip as it is not an archive.

Tried multiples times from both links above.

RD

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#7 written by Stargazer 2 years ago

The file indeed got corrupted, so I reuploaded it and even added an unzipped version. I hope it works for you guys now.

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#8 written by RuminDange 2 years ago

Thanks, that worked.

Thanks for finding and hosting this. This will come in handy.

RD

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#9 written by Fragilicious 2 years ago

Man, I love you. Seriously I have spent hours looking for this and you have done me a great service. Seriously, I love you ^_^

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#10 written by Di 2 years ago

Hi!

I kinda stumbled on your post while looking for updates on this city map generator and it seems to me that the version you posted is outdated. It's possible to download the version 5.40 from a couple of sites, but i uploaded it to http://drop.io/rpgcitymapgen# just in case.

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- #11 written by Stargazer 2 years ago
  
  Thanks a lot! Hehe, I actually didn't know there was a newer version available. I will upload the latest one to my site ASAP.
  
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#12 written by Ole Christiansen 2 years ago

Thank you very much for your kindly effort in creating a new download availability, of the RPG City Map Generator.

Happy Greetings Ole

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#13 written by tsavatar 2 years ago

you sir, deserve a medal of honour, the nobel peace prize and a lifetime pass to the playboy mansion.

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- #14 written by Stargazer 2 years ago
  
  Thanks!
  
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#15 written by Jupes 2 years ago

You good sir, are a legend. I take my hat off to thee.

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- #16 written by Stargazer 2 years ago
  
  Thanks! And I am just providing a public service here. The creator's site has been down for quite some time now, so I thougt he probably doesn't mind when I host the file here.
  
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#17 written by MJ Harnish 2 years ago

I know I'm coming very late to the party but I figured you might be interested in this tutorial which shows you how to take the maps generated by the program and turn them in to really great looking maps using photoshop.

http://forum.cartographersguild.com/showthread.ph…
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#18 written by Stargazer 2 years ago

Hey, that's cool! Thanks for that link! It's much appreciated!

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#19 written by drow 2 years ago

out of curiousity, what is/was the creator's website?

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#20 written by Stargazer 2 years ago

http://www.drachenzahn.de but it's down now

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#21 written by Simon Rogers 2 years ago

Do you know how to contact the author? We'd really like to do a version of this for CC3.

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- #22 written by Stargazer 2 years ago
  
  Sorry, I have no idea. I even did some research using the Archive.org web archive. I found the name of the site owner. But alas I found no phone number and no working email adress. Since the author was obviously a German, I would have even called him to help to get you in contact, but alas my google fu lost me.
  It's a shame really. But perhaps you can do something similiar without the author's help.
  
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#23 written by Alpo Leppänen 2 years ago

Thank's a ton! I've been searching for ages for a program to do just what this does.

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#24 written by Buzzwulf 1 year ago

actually, I've been using the free source AUTOrealm for a while, but it's not really supported anymore. It is great for fractal lines and coasts, though. It also has a grid that can scale to the miles you input, and I personally think that's invaluable.

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#25 written by Youkim 1 year ago

oh thanks! I was looking for this for days!

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#26 written by Grippy Gecko 1 year ago

I like this application. but am i right in thinking i cant make coastal towns and cities with it, only ones on a river?

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- #27 written by Stargazer 1 year ago
  
  I think so.
  
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- #28 written by dungeons and dragons advice 7 months ago
  
  You could always generate one on a river, then just Photoshop it into an Oceanside town
  
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#29 written by Lee 1 year ago

Thank you for hosting this. I love this little program, it's so useful when you need to create any kind of city/town/village map for rpgs, stories, or whatever.

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#30 written by alireza khodakarami 1 year ago

hey man

thanks for great effort

if it's possible, i may ask if you can develop a character generator program for http://www.narutod20.com
with the ability to print character sheets?

thanks

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- #31 written by Stargazer 1 year ago
  
  As I wrote in the post, I didn't develop that program. I am merely hosting it after the original creator's site went offline.
  
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#32 written by Anon 1 year ago

This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much!

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#33 written by Chris 5 months ago

Hi I have a question. How do I save the image as .gif or .bmp or whatever? Sorry to not be clear it just won’t save the image in a way my computer can read

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- #34 written by Stargazer 5 months ago
  
  Below the City Map Preview you find a button labelled “Export selection as image(s) …”. You can click on this button to export the map as BMP file.
  
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#35 written by Barles 2 months ago

Here’s a link to a free browser rpg encounter map creator, it’s beast:

http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/

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