City Map Generator Dnd
Create detailed fantasy city maps for your Dungeons & Dragons campaigns with unique layouts and imaginative designs
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How to Get Started
Simple steps to create amazing results
Describe Your City
Enter your city's name, size, and setting. Choose from medieval towns, port cities, desert outposts, or create your own unique urban landscape.
Customize Your Map
Adjust details like wall layouts, district types, landmarks, and architectural style to match your campaign's aesthetic and needs.
Generate & Download
Create your map instantly and download in high resolution. Use it immediately in your DnD sessions, both digital and print.
Main Features
Powerful capabilities at your fingertips
AI-Powered Generation
Advanced algorithms create detailed, realistic city maps with intricate street layouts, districts, and landmarks tailored to your specifications.
Multiple Fantasy Themes
Generate maps for any setting including medieval, steampunk, coastal, desert, or frozen cities with theme-specific architecture and features.
Customizable Scale
Create anything from small villages to sprawling metropolises with accurate scaling for tactical combat and exploration encounters.
DnD-Ready Layouts
Maps designed with grid overlays and clear districts perfect for running campaigns, plotting encounters, and storytelling.
High-Resolution Export
Download your maps in print-ready quality, perfect for virtual tabletops, physical handouts, or campaign documentation.
Strategic Locations
Automatically includes taverns, temples, markets, guard towers, and other key locations essential for immersive city adventures.
Interesting Things You Might Not Know About City Map DnD
Medieval Inspiration
The earliest D&D city maps from the 1970s were directly influenced by medieval town planning diagrams from the 12th-14th centuries, particularly the circular fortified designs of European walled cities like Carcassonne.
Isometric Revolution
The isometric city map style became the D&D standard in 1983 with the release of the Expert Set's Grand Duchy of Karameikos map, establishing the iconic 30-degree angle view still used today.
Grid Systems Matter
Professional D&D cartographers typically use a 5-foot-per-square grid for street-level maps, but district-wide city maps employ a 100-foot scale to maintain playable detail across areas spanning 2-10 square miles.
Waterdeep's Complexity
The most detailed official D&D city map, Waterdeep, contains over 1,200 individually named locations across multiple vertical layers, requiring more than 47 separate map sheets in its complete published form.
Color-Coding Heritage
Traditional D&D city maps use a specific color palette: blue for water, green for parks, brown for buildings, and red for important locations—a convention established by TSR's cartography department in 1981.
The Dyson Influence
Hand-drawn city maps experienced a renaissance in 2009 when cartographer Dyson Logos popularized the crosshatching technique, inspiring over 60% of independent D&D cartographers to adopt analog methods according to a 2019 community survey.
Vertical Urbanism
The most dimensionally complex D&D city map is Sharn from Eberron, featuring 18 distinct vertical districts stacked in towers reaching heights of 1,500 feet, requiring specialized vertical cross-section mapping techniques.
Symbol Standardization
The Modern Cartographer's Guild established 127 standardized symbols for D&D city maps in 2015, including distinct icons for taverns, temples, shops, and guildhalls to ensure universal readability across campaigns.
Historical Accuracy
Authentic D&D city maps incorporate medieval street width ratios where main thoroughfares are 15-20 feet wide while alleys measure just 4-6 feet, matching archaeological data from 13th-century European urban centers.
Scale Challenges
Creating a complete city map for a D&D metropolis of 25,000+ inhabitants at playable battle-map scale would require a physical map measuring approximately 40 feet by 40 feet if printed at standard tabletop dimensions.
Ravnica's Record
The 2018 Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica features the largest single-planet city ever mapped for D&D, depicting an ecumenopolis covering an entire world with 10 distinct urban districts, each the size of a continent.
Defensive Design
Over 80% of official D&D city maps incorporate historically accurate defensive features like kill zones, barbicans, and overlapping fields of fire, based on consultation with medieval military architecture experts during TSR's golden age.
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