Advice RPG RPG tools Stargazer February 27, 2009 50 Comments

Roleplaying City Map Generator

Some time ago I read about an awesome freeware city map generator for Windows. But alas the creator’s site is down for quite some time now and it’s pretty hard to find a copy of the map generator on the web. So when I finally found a copy, I decided to host a copy of the latest version of the Roleplaying City Map Generator at my Google Sites site for your convenience.

RPG City Map Generator (.MSI) 1788k (Download)
RPG City Map Generator (.ZIP) 1605k (Download)

City Map - Small Town with town wall
By the way, if you know some interesting (and preferrably free) map creator software, please let us know in the comment section of this post! Thanks!
Update: Several people reported that the zip file got somehow corrupted. I reuploaded it and added the unzipped version.
Update #2: I uploaded the latest version of the software (v5.40) and removed the ZIP download. Thanks to Di for providing me with the latest version.

Stargazer

Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

50 comments

Lurkinggherkin February 27, 2009 17:44

Awesome indeed. Thanks!

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bonemaster February 27, 2009 19:49

Glad you found what you were looking for. I'll have to check on this application when I get some time today. I'm always in the mood for something to take away from what I have to do.

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Joe February 27, 2009 22:52

For random generators, you may want to look at the 7 random dungeon generators I reviewed recently:
http://www.inkwellideas.com/?page_id=125

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xero February 28, 2009 19:13

'can not open roleplaying_city_map_generator.zip as an archive'

bummer.

Stargazer February 28, 2009 19:15

Try downloading it again. This obviously happens once in a while. The Google Sites pages seem to be under quite some stress at the moment.

RuminDange March 4, 2009 04:54

Can not open the roleplaying_city_map_generator.zip as it is not an archive.

Tried multiples times from both links above.

Stargazer March 4, 2009 08:37

The file indeed got corrupted, so I reuploaded it and even added an unzipped version. I hope it works for you guys now.

RuminDange March 4, 2009 23:28

Thanks, that worked.

Thanks for finding and hosting this. This will come in handy.

Fragilicious March 16, 2009 14:50

Man, I love you. Seriously I have spent hours looking for this and you have done me a great service. Seriously, I love you ^_^

Di April 10, 2009 13:48

Hi!

I kinda stumbled on your post while looking for updates on this city map generator and it seems to me that the version you posted is outdated. It's possible to download the version 5.40 from a couple of sites, but i uploaded it to http://drop.io/rpgcitymapgen# just in case.

Stargazer April 10, 2009 14:15

Thanks a lot! Hehe, I actually didn't know there was a newer version available. I will upload the latest one to my site ASAP.

Ole Christiansen April 22, 2009 11:00

Thank you very much for your kindly effort in creating a new download availability, of the RPG City Map Generator.

Happy Greetings Ole

tsavatar June 22, 2009 14:30

you sir, deserve a medal of honour, the nobel peace prize and a lifetime pass to the playboy mansion.

Stargazer June 22, 2009 14:52

Thanks! 🙂

Jupes July 9, 2009 12:20

You good sir, are a legend. I take my hat off to thee.

Stargazer July 9, 2009 12:26

Thanks! And I am just providing a public service here. The creator's site has been down for quite some time now, so I thougt he probably doesn't mind when I host the file here.

MJ Harnish October 5, 2009 22:18

I know I'm coming very late to the party but I figured you might be interested in this tutorial which shows you how to take the maps generated by the program and turn them in to really great looking maps using photoshop.

http://forum.cartographersguild.com/showthread.ph…
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Stargazer October 5, 2009 22:20

Hey, that's cool! 🙂 Thanks for that link! It's much appreciated!

drow October 12, 2009 18:52

out of curiousity, what is/was the creator's website?

Stargazer October 12, 2009 18:59

http://www.drachenzahn.de but it's down now 🙁

Simon Rogers October 27, 2009 15:43

Do you know how to contact the author? We'd really like to do a version of this for CC3.

Stargazer October 27, 2009 17:21

Sorry, I have no idea. I even did some research using the Archive.org web archive. I found the name of the site owner. But alas I found no phone number and no working email adress. Since the author was obviously a German, I would have even called him to help to get you in contact, but alas my google fu lost me.
It's a shame really. But perhaps you can do something similiar without the author's help.

Alpo Leppänen November 25, 2009 16:50

Thank's a ton! I've been searching for ages for a program to do just what this does. 🙂

Buzzwulf March 6, 2010 09:45

actually, I've been using the free source AUTOrealm for a while, but it's not really supported anymore. It is great for fractal lines and coasts, though. It also has a grid that can scale to the miles you input, and I personally think that's invaluable.

Youkim April 21, 2010 06:39

oh thanks! I was looking for this for days!

Grippy Gecko May 27, 2010 18:36

I like this application. but am i right in thinking i cant make coastal towns and cities with it, only ones on a river?

Stargazer May 27, 2010 18:37

I think so.

dungeons and dragons advice June 29, 2011 17:24

You could always generate one on a river, then just Photoshop it into an Oceanside town 🙂

Lee June 6, 2010 19:56

Thank you for hosting this. I love this little program, it's so useful when you need to create any kind of city/town/village map for rpgs, stories, or whatever.

alireza khodakarami August 3, 2010 08:49

hey man

thanks for great effort

if it's possible, i may ask if you can develop a character generator program for http://www.narutod20.com
with the ability to print character sheets?

thanks

Stargazer August 4, 2010 12:41

As I wrote in the post, I didn't develop that program. I am merely hosting it after the original creator's site went offline.

Anon January 6, 2011 09:15

This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much!

Chris September 5, 2011 02:31

Hi I have a question. How do I save the image as .gif or .bmp or whatever? Sorry to not be clear it just won’t save the image in a way my computer can read

Stargazer September 5, 2011 06:40

Below the City Map Preview you find a button labelled “Export selection as image(s) …”. You can click on this button to export the map as BMP file.

Barles December 1, 2011 06:57

Here’s a link to a free browser rpg encounter map creator, it’s beast:

http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/

Ambientdust February 13, 2012 23:30

Is there a legend? I can’t find one in the program and I can’t figure out what certain things are (ie. green circles, brown lines, black lines)

Stargazer February 14, 2012 06:34

As far as I remember there is no legend. The site of the original creator is long gone and I am just hosting the file. Alas I can’t really provide support.

Mark May 31, 2012 00:59

This is an OLD version of the Roleplaying City Map Generator, being version 4.5 instead of 5.4. Features are missing, like the export image button that should be at the bottom. I’ve looked around on the web a lot and could not find a proper updated version!

Could you please update this to 5.4?

Stargazer May 31, 2012 06:33

I have stated this several times before: This is the only version I have and I am not affiliated with the creator of this fine program in any form. If someone can provide me with an updated version I will gladly host it, but as long as that doesn’t happen, you’ll have to be content with this version. Sorry.

Ed Jones June 13, 2012 21:08

Try this link for version 5.40:

http://www.rpglibrary.org/software/rpg_city_map_generator/

Stargazer June 14, 2012 08:11

Thanks. I also updated the file I hosted here. It now should be the same as the one at rpglibrary.org.

Stacey November 25, 2012 18:37

You are literally wonderful Sir! I’ve been looking for something like this since I can’t afford big fancy software and this is perfect. Thanks kindly <3

levallon May 26, 2014 04:05

Time marches on. In 2014, I find that this program which I used to love is not working so well with all the updated software and OS versions available. The online version look very romper room to me. I so wish that the creator would publish an updated version.

Jorge González (@steinkelz) August 26, 2015 02:14

I’ve created this tool some time ago as a toy project http://rpgtables.com where you can create your own tables and share… Hope you find it useful.

Laila September 16, 2017 14:41

I just found this one, which I think is really cool as well:
https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator

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