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MapMaking - A Map Making community for DND/TTRPG

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Welcome to the TTRPG/DND/D&D/Fantasy Map Makers Community!

We're thrilled to have you here! This community is all about the art and craft of creating TTRPG maps. Whether you're a seasoned cartographer or just beginning, this is the perfect place to delve into the world of map making. Here, we exchange knowledge, seek advice, explore techniques, and bring our imaginary worlds to life.

Our Main Focus: Map Making Discussions

Primarily, our community thrives on open discussions about all aspects of map-making. Topics can range from tools, techniques, and asset sharing to queries about scaling and more. This open forum is where we share knowledge, learn from one another, and celebrate the process of map creation.

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Map Making Prompts: Feel free to post prompts that others can interpret through their unique artistic perspectives. Create maps inspired by these prompts and share your process!

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Artist's 'Make a Request' Posts: Artists in our community can start a thread inviting others to make requests, which they can then attempt to fulfill. This keeps the requests contained and easy to follow. This section also doesn't cater to paid services, and the policy may change in the future.

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I shared one of my battle-maps in some places just now (first time for that, really) and got the request to maybe share the full uncompressed version.

My battle-maps tend to be on the larger side and can easily go beyond 15-20mb at times.

I have two issues, mainly where I could use some pointers and input:

  1. I don't want to lose all my rights (not even implicitly due to some vague TOS or EULA shenanigans) where I upload to and I am not willing to use any Google or Microsoft related services (nor any of the other large IT related companies, really - hence why I use the fediverse).
  2. I'd like to be sure I'm not just clogging someones server up with huge files like lemmy for example. Feels wrong to upload such huge files to a free service.

Got any advice? Should I use something like a (free) Patreon maybe?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's okay to say, "No," to that sort of request. Source files are something most graphic designers keep behind a paywall or under lock and key.

That being said, an expiring Dropbox link works pretty well.

[–] Imperor 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think they meant the source files, just a higher resolution (non-compressed) version of the image.

[–] spicecastle 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Imperor 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Good suggestion, thank you!

[–] spicecastle 1 points 1 year ago

You‘re welcome!

[–] TheAmishMan 2 points 1 year ago

Yea probably a cloud storage site like mega or Google drive like others have said. The good thing with those is it's much easier for people to bulk download your maps if you have them in the same folder