Fans of the genre " Fantasy » are often fans of cartography. And for good reason, travel and adventure in distant lands are often at the heart of the stories of this literary genre. Immersion comes through the discovery of new worlds and to find your way around, authors often include detailed maps of the lands traveled through in their works. Indeed, how can you find your way around JRR Tolkien's stories without a good map of Middle Earth?
In short, all this to say that a beautiful, well-drawn map can make fans of the genre happy! And precisely, inkarnate is an online tool with a free version that allows you to create and manage maps that use all the codes of the “Fantasy” universe.
Inkarnate: A Powerful Fantasy Map Generator
Inkarnate has many features powerful enough to make a map to your liking: world maps, regional map or city map. Start with choose your card style among 7 available styles (3 in the free version of the site).
Then choose the resolution of your map as well as the dimensions of the document and finally access the map editor.
The editor has many tools that will allow you, if you are talented, to create very beautiful maps. Draw the contours of the lands of your world, choose the ground textures, add elements (mountains, trees, cities, etc.), put place names, add a grid... in short, build your map! A certain number of elements are nevertheless reserved for the paid version of the tool, but the free version still allows you to achieve a more than correct result and which should be enough for most users.
Once you are satisfied with the result, you can export your creation to JPG format.
And here is the map of Western Byothe that I made in a few minutes using the free version of the tool:
All your maps are saved in your personal space on Inkarnate… which means, as you will have understood, that if you wish to use the tool, you will have to create an account.
The free version allows you to create up to ten maps for personal use, which can be exported in 2K and has over 200 creation elements at your disposal. That's really not bad, but for those who want to make something truly perfect, you'll have to pay and opt for the paid version.
In short, Inkarnate is really a very nice tool that will please role-playing game players (and especially game masters), fantasy book authors (to illustrate their work), board game designers and artists who are fans of the genre!
Article updated on February 23, 2023 by Byothe
