Tools of the trade

many writers who write fantasy find themselves producing maps

Well I have more cartography programs than I care to admit on my computer, some of them considered the "industry standard" yet I keep coming back to Autorealm

This is a FREE mapping program that with some practice can produce serviceable maps

With some more practice it actually produces publishable maps

So for your downloading pleasure, here you go

Links

http://www.deistgames.com/downloads.htm

http://www.gryc.ws/autorealm.htm

I am giving you both my site (where it is available for download)

As well as the official download site.

And yes, I do consider it an important tool. In the coming days I will be unveiling the Dungeons and Dragons setting of Kir, and will post some maps produced with this program

I've downloaded and installed it. I don't know when I'll have a chance to play with it, but I look forward to doing so.

Somewhere on my list of books-to-complete is a fantasy novel for which I drew my own crappy map. This should help a lot.

perfect for fantasy and even sci fi

http://www.geocities.com/blood_tyger/