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This video is part of a continuing series on creating a long term conflict for your player characters. The village of Rodenburr has been harassed by night attacks by mysterious figures in robes and hoods. No one yet knows that these are orcs led by the brilliant chieftain Kurok, using tactics to divide and conquer the village. The players will investigate and discover this large conflict that is about to erupt.

Using Dungeondraft software to create the village, I show how to use the trace feature to get a sense of proportion and scale from an existing map that I download from the internet. My goal is to create the map quickly, and using another map as a guide helps this process.

I show how using the free drawing software GIMP you can scale the downloaded image so that the scale of the map matches the grid in Dungeondraft. This way the players can interact with the map in a digital platform such as Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds.

First I lay out the roadmap of the town, then add structures around the village square using objects that I got from 2 Minute Tabletop. They are very affordable and work well when scaled.

I then create two other areas of structures, then give some atmosphere to the map by making it literally carved from the rocks which form the nearby Barren Hills. I use the scatter tool to quickly develop the surrounding countryside.

When the map is finished I export it as a JPG image, then bring it into Fantasy Grounds and match the grid size. The map is ready to use in my campaign!

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Here are the software packages and assets that I use in this video:

Dungeondraft
dungeondraft.net

2-Minute Tabletop
https://2minutetabletop.com/

Gimp Image Manipulation Software
https://www.gimp.org/

Fantasy Grounds
fantasygrounds.com