Game Master Tools

To create a simple game module you need quite a bit: a bit of paper, a pen and your own imagination. Many skilled craftsmen have enough of this for large modules for several game days or even entire lines. Despite this, there are a diverse number of different tools that help to significantly simplify the work of the Game master and give him the opportunity to focus on the main thing. In this article I tried to collect the most useful programs and online services that facilitate our lives.

Card generator.
Many years ago, I got a free copy of the Fractal World Explorer . Since then, to create global maps, I use it only. Allows you to build a geographical map of the planet, create an atmosphere, calculate the river. Allows you to edit the created map by changing the heights, precipitation, temperature, sea level, erosion of winds and rains.
Advantages:
Convenience and simplicity.
The necessary settings are present.
Disadvantages:
Pay. Explorer is included in the Fractal Mapper package and is a paid program. (However, generous people with redundant copies have not yet been translated on the Internet).
The results must be “dopilivat” hands, especially the river. In general, I highly recommend creating a copy of the card before each action, since there is no return, which is another disadvantage

Generator maps of the village.
The best solution for generating a city ​​map for me was the RPG city map generator.
An unknown friend turned out to be a very excellent program designed to create a map of any settlement, from the village to the big city. The abundance of templates on the one hand and precise settings on the other allow you to create exactly the place you need.
Benefits:
The presence of templates.
Very wide field for setting the settlement.
Disadvantage: Yes, you have to spend a little time on what to figure out.

Dungeon Generator
Very convenient service with the right amount of settings. Not only creates a dungeon map, but also sets traps, secret doors, difficulty levels to detect them (d & d 3 and higher), and so on.
Advantages:
Convenient interface.
Availability of useful settings.
Pleasant result output.
Disadvantages:
The service is posted on the website, you can not drag it to your bag.

Real Name Generator
Despite the enormous abundance of various generators of names, I stopped at thisThe service provides a choice of twenty different nationalities, and also provides additional settings when generating Russian names.
Benefits:
Wide selection of nationalities.
Simplicity and convenience.
Disadvantages:
There is no possibility of generating a stream of names, and, accordingly, output to a file.
Service posted on the site, you can not drag to yourself.
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Generator fantasy names.
The generators of fantasy names are even larger than the generators of ordinary ones and everyone will find for themselves what they like best. I also likedIt generates more or less decent names, a normal choice of races, there is an output of up to 1000 names in a row.
Benefits:
Display a large list of names in one stream.
Disadvantages:
Not the widest choice of races.

By the way, I recommend to take a look at this name generator at least for the sake of creating a name for the race of transformers. But a lot of other nationalities are also present there.

With all due respect,

ADF: Information supplemented by habro users:
Hub users craimez , tsvetkovpa , Tiendil offered

The user AllexIn offered a paid program for generating textures, a free program for generating 3D tree models (link leads to a review), a free program for creating 3D character models.

Alternatively, the RPG user suggested the following product: Filter Forge, MaPZone, Substance Designer, .werkkzeug.

User Firsto suggested using Terragen (link leads to Wikipedia) to create different backgrounds.

And user ZatriX added

1. Campaign Cartographer. Paid, but very good map editor.
2. Maptool, Tokentool and their ilk from rptools.net. Favorite set of tools for fighting cards and small settlements. A lot of graphic textures are fastened with a couple of clicks. Able to drive online. Free.

for which he, like everyone, also thanks. Hope not forgot anyone.

With all due respect.