- What does this page make?
- One original hand-drawn map from a written description, styled as an antique parchment chart: ink linework, hand-stippled relief, restrained colour washes, a compass rose and a ribbon banner carrying the name. It draws kingdoms, continents, coastlines and island chains, walled cities as district plans, and single dungeon levels cut into rock.
- Is it a VTT-ready battle map with a grid?
- No, and it is better to know that up front. What you get is a picture of a map, not a virtual tabletop file: there is no .dd2vtt export, no guaranteed squares-per-inch grid pitch, and no scene data for Roll20, Foundry or Fantasy Grounds. You can drop the image onto a tabletop as a background and lay that software's own grid over it, but the alignment is yours to set, not ours to promise.
- Will the place names be spelled correctly?
- Usually, and the page is designed around it - names are asked for in the drawing instruction and lettered in a serif hand clear of the linework. But the lettering is drawn by an image model, not typeset, so it is not guaranteed. In our own testing 33 of 34 requested names came out correct; the one that failed was a long hyphenated name, which came back broken across the map. Short plain names in capitals are the most reliable, and a name written twice in two places happens occasionally on busy maps.
- Can I map a published setting like the Forgotten Realms?
- No. The generator will not reproduce an existing published setting, adventure, module or copyrighted map, so asking for a named commercial world returns an original place instead. Describe your own geography and it will draw that - the names you invent are drawn exactly as you write them.
- How many credits does one map cost?
- 8 credits for one map at 1K, whichever kind you ask for. A re-roll with a different coastline or a different set of names costs the same 8 credits again.