The map library

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Seriously, how can I skip up to 2028?

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It really pisses me off when physicists go on and on about alternate dimensions and universes, but never tell us how to get there!

Vicious Heartless

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Go to Ongā€™s Hat, New Jersey and get a copy of Incunabula Catalog.

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I never should have sold my time tunnel.

do-you-remember-the-time-tunnel-tv-series-1966-67-v0-0gdnfpdqaz9c1

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Remember to take a break in 2026 to vote in the mid-term elections!

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Will do. Iā€™m in Virginia so I need to vote in the gubernatorial election this Fall too.

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Utah UK?

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Connecticut Germany?

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'Slong as they arenā€™t exporting mormonism. Canā€™t imagine that crap selling well in the UK. ā€œNo coffee or booze? Fuck that for a game of soldiers!ā€

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Iā€™m trying to find map-making software.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mapmaking/comments/1in7nhe/easy_and_animationfree_hex_mapping_software/?

https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1imrc4y/alternatives_to_hex_kit_and_worldographer_easier/?

I used to draw maps in LibreOffice.

I am looking for an easier alternative. I have coordination problems which made it hard to align everything in LibreOffice, and I have chronic migraines which make it important to avoid animation.

I have Hex Kit, but itā€™s not working out. I may be missing something, but Iā€™m having a lot of trouble using it, at every point. If I try to scroll, it zooms. If I carefully pick one hex to edit, it edits the next one over. If I slip, it zooms. I am sensitive to animation, and the zooming has left me with a migraine and severe nausea.

I only have the demo for Worldographer, but I donā€™t know if it would work out either. It has an option to stop the accursed zooming, but it has a lot of other animation.

I also looked at Hex Friend, and it had even more animation.

I havenā€™t tried Campaign Cartographer, but itā€™s only available for Windows.

Can anyone suggest other options that might work better?

What Iā€™m looking for:

  1. An easy way to draw maps.
  2. I need to be able to avoid animation.
  3. I need to share and may want to republish some maps, for both roleplaying and wargaming. I already bought some free-to-reuse tilesets.
  4. I need to be able to include coastlines, which wonā€™t always line up with the edges and corners of the hexes. As well as clearly-drawn roads and/or railroads, cities of varying sizes, etc.
  5. I also need to be able to include hex-side features if I want.
  6. I need this to run on Linux.

If thereā€™s a way to block the animation in Hex Kit and/or in Worldographer, and if thereā€™s a set of coastal tiles that sometimes line up with the middles of the hexsides, that would help.

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I havenā€™t used any of these but i have over time posted some of these to my D&D groupā€™s discord in case anyone found them useful:

Hereā€™s a resource for old maps

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ETA

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Unfortunately, all of those websites have animation. Inkarnate is supposed to have a hex mapping option, but I canā€™t try it, because of the cookie animation.

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Thatā€™s annoying :neutral_face: i wonder if there are folks on relevant reddit communities (or another place) that could point you in the right direction.

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Apparently itā€™s Inkscape. @#$% Inkscape. Always Inkscape. I hate Inkscape. I know it has manuals to explain everything, and itā€™s supposed to be possible to draw a line in Inkscape, but I canā€™t read the @#$% interface, or the preferences, or the manuals.

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I suppose a potential solution might be to get a hex grid printed on some sheets and manually draw your map, get it scanned or take a good picture of it. Thereā€™s some obvious headaches with that but i think considering some of the issues youā€™ve been having with software, maybe drawing it out IRL might be a reasonable alternative.

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