u/Warpig_Gaming

Hi there. I'm working on a location crawl and I'm looking to find some app or program I can use to render dungeons/towns/outdoor spaces for mapping. It wouldn't be seen by the players, more of a behind the screen way of me to keep track of locations and their contents. I'm not super talented, though I can use a straight edge and graph paper, and I want something relatively easy for a novice. NO AI is an absolute must, and cheap to free would be best.

What do you recommend?

Hi all. I was thinking about how one could go about running a game of CoC off the cuff, with little to no prep time. Is it possible? What tricks do Keepers employ for such situations? Are there any good resources for this? Is there like a dungeon crawl esque type game for CoC (investigation crawl, maybe?).

Edit: Thank you for all your insights on this. The general concensus seems to be that, conceptually, it doesn't work well to play a game off the cuff. I was posing this question as a sort of meta-analysis on the nature of investigative games and how they fundamentally differed from more action/combat oriented type ttrpgs.

I'm actually surprised nobody mentioned solo play as a potential starting point for a spontaneous game. CoC was the first system I ever solo played consistently (I preferred the percentile system as it felt harder to "cheat" by giving myself easy DCs). Of course, solo resources make for a fairly randomized game, which probably feels a lot different from a traditional session.