r/wonderdraft

Made in Wonderdraft. More details in the comments.

I would like some tips to help me improve my map-making skills for my DnD Campaigns. I am not the most creative person, so I think the maps I make look good, but I also know they can be improved upon. Any help is appreciated.

A tiny Island with only one settlement and ruins. For my Daggerheart OneShot :)

Somewhat a northern Island, lots of rain, pine trees, hills and cliffs.

Wonderdraft formed the basis of the map for my indie strategy RPG, Withering State, which is inspired by Suzerain and Paradox strategy games. I had played around with the program for personal stuff before, and then I realized that I could use it alongside some photoshop tricks I picked up from making CK3 mods to create the main map for my game. Great program! I just wish you could copy&paste between maps.

Hi, I’m back with another version of my continent map. I added more rivers and mountains, changed the map theme, and the colors got a bit messed up, but after a few adjustments I still think they look good. So, what do you think?

Thanks for all the comments.

Before you comment on the "Tutorial Map" yes, I know it fits perfectly in a square canvas. That is intentional. 😄

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Dotty Creatures Bundle 2 is focusing on classic animals.

The bundle gives you custom colorable Wonderdraft assets for farm animals (horses, cows, chickens), wild animals (elephants, lions, bears), and aquatic animals (whales, dolphins, fish)

The bundle: https://readyartz.com/animals-bundle-dotty?route=product/product&language=en-gb

Happy mapping!

A land divided by perpetual sunshine in the Day (North) and eternal darkness in the Night (South) is further riddled by unyielding natural cataclysms. High above the chaos, the plateau of Ebede-Dur serves as a sanctuary from the forces of nature. For centuries, fierce fights among those who tried to claim a piece of it led to much bloodshed, until the humans of the Altaii scaled its sheer cliffs and allied with the Owlfolk to establish their republic. Yet peace on the plateau remains fragile: resentment against the humans still festers alongside the nearly one-millennia-old dying places of the old gods. Here, the frontier city of Kaburi stands as a vanguard, guarding the realms of the Altaii against the relentless spillovers of the Charnel Sides.

Estoy diseñando todos los mapas de mi mundo de nuevo. Antes lo hacía de una manera más arcaica, ahora estoy usando el programa, pero quiero que me ayuden con críticas constructivas para mejorar el mapa, ya que soy nuevo en este programa y considero que hay muchos puntos en los que pudiera mejorar, pero no sé por dónde iniciar. Así que espero que tengan críticas sin ningún problema hacia mi obra.

Painting (color picked from nearby land)

Erasing Color

Terrain that I added with the Raise Landmass brush can't match other terrain, despite use of Manual Color/color picker. Issue persists even through erasing the color on the land in question.

Anyone else run into this/find a solution?

SOLVED: Thanks to u\StevenTrustrum, switching to the "black and white" ground texture gave me a clearer image of what happened. I had made this as a Detail Map from a larger world map, and it looks like Wonderdraft made the heightmap near the river way lower than the rest (but still above water level).

When I use Raise Landmass in the black and white texture mode, I saw more clearly that the terrain would change to match what was further inland, so I just have to go in and level out the heightmap at the river shore.

Does this look off to you? I kinda wanted to have a line (second image) of mountains with a small, surrounded valley on the side. Then I thought that the land between mountains and the south sea could also be a bit mountainous. But now it all kinda looks like a giant blob and I can't tell anymore, whether it looks good or not, and where I went wrong, if at all