Trying to fix a lack of Sci-Fi battlemaps on the web

andrewrgross, 10 months ago

These are great. What kind of system do you run for these?

Also, is it possible to get any of these without grids or with hexgrids?

techingtenor, 10 months ago

All of these maps were made with Stars without Number revised edition, or dark heresy first edition in mind. They aren’t super intentionally designed to cater to either of those systems though.

I can certainly try. If I still have the dungeon draft files still I can load the original projects and make both clean and hex versions without much issue

andrewrgross, 10 months ago

That’d be awesome!

I think gridless would be best, so I can size the hex grids appropriately to my use case.

Ziggurat, 10 months ago

Thanks a lot.

We need more people to share their map. Even though, I rarely use battle map, it’s always helping building the ambience and avoid misunderstandings.

It’s great to have professional grade map, but even amateur maps are a nice addition to the community.

techingtenor, 10 months ago

Yeah exactly! I especially find this true for sci-fi. There are some great battlemaps for sci-fi out there, but they tend to depict very similar places in similar settings, as another commenter mentioned, or just be a recreation of something from star wars for the umpteenth time. There’s a place for maps of wildly different locales in sci-fi games. Alien planets have backwater towns too! Not every map needs to be a space station, a hangar, or a cyberpunk city.

Hopefully I’ve helped make a teeny tiny dent in the sci fi map variety issue.

entropicdrift, 10 months ago

Thank you! I’m running a dimension-hopping combo sci-fi/fantasy game and it’s honestly painful to find sci-fi maps other than “space station” and “cyberpunk cityscape”.

Most of the time I just do theater of the mind or draw a tactical blueprint-style map on a white grid

jodawznev, 10 months ago

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!