u/lucasvhooi

Made this homebrew D&D map a while ago for the campaign I’m currently running and thought I’d share it!

We’ve been playing in this world for around 2 years now, so the map has slowly grown alongside the campaign. Each country has numbered points of interest with icons representing what each location is.

I am aware that Elysium is on there twice.
Only noticed it after the map had already been printed, so I just ruled it into the lore as an extra colony of the country.

For a school project I started building a web tool to help DMs run and prepare smoother DnD sessions. I’ve reached a point where I’d love to get feedback from both DMs and players before continuing development.

The tool mainly focuses on campaign management and session flow.

Current features include:
Interactive world and city maps with discoverable points of interest that live update so you can reveal locations on the fly.

NPC management with large race-based name generation

Tavern and shop systems with dynamic visitors, rooms, food, and drinks based on the race of the region,

A combat tracker with initiative sorting, status effects, loot tables, and combat logs

Full 5e spell and item lists with custom additions

Player inventories, attunement tracking, and spell favorites that the DM can live manipulate meaning adding and removing items from the inventory of your players and this updating for them instantly.

One feature I’ve personally enjoyed building is the town system. You can import a city map, place taverns, shops, and landmarks, then populate them automatically with NPCs from the area or random travelers. Taverns also change activity between day and night.

I’m mainly looking for feedback on:
Features you feel are missing in current DM tools

Things that feel unnecessarily complicated in existing tools

Features you would personally use the most

UI/UX feedback from the screenshots

This is still heavily work in progress, but I’d really love to hear what other DMs and players would want from something like this.

For a school project I have started working on a web tool to help DMs run and prepare a smoother session. I have reached a point where i want to show some screenshots and ask DMs and players for feedback on any other features or changes they would like.

There are a few main features the program focuses on. First of all a way to quickly import your map and create points of interest. These can be shown to the party or be hidden if they didn’t visit it yet. The second slide is what a city could look like. Import a map of the town or place and add waypoints for shops, taverns and other points of interest. There is also a huge list of npc names. The DM can add npcs himself or generate a list of up to 1000 npcs that are named based on the main race of that area.

Shops and taverns can be easily setup and get auto populated with food and drinks from the race menu, guests that are present in the town npc list and about 5% traveler characters. Switch the tavern from day to night to get a higher visitor rate. In here you can also set the available room a tavern has. The price of these dynamically changes based on how busy it is.

Next a pretty straightforward combat tracker where you can add a creature from the DnD 5e list or create a custom one yourself. Add players to the mix and let the list auto sort. Pressing start combat starts the combat round where you can double click on a player to make them attack a enemy from the list. There is a simple log that shows all turns and a loot table that you can setup per enemy if you like. There is also the ability to add status effect for a set amount of rounds so you can easily see when a effect ends.

There’s also the full spell list of 5e with tool tips if a spell does some sort of status effect. Player can favorite spells to quickly see then in their inventory. There also is a 5e item list where you can of course add fully custom items if you need and add these to your players inventory as you like. Here players can also see what they are attuned to.

There are some more small features but these are the main ones. My question is what do you miss, don’t like or like about the current state of the tool. I will continue working on this for the time to come. Would like what other DMs and players think and miss in other tools currently on the market.

This post is no promotion but purely for receiving feedback and gathering more ideas.

Thanks for reading!