GM Friend Alternatives

GM Friend is described as 'A free online hex map maker tool for RPG or DnD hexcrawls and Westmarches style campaigns' and is an website. There are more than 10 alternatives to GM Friend, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, Windows, Mac and iPhone apps. The best GM Friend alternative is Mipui, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to GM Friend are Eigengrau's Generator, Dungeon Maker Sketch, Dungeon Map Doodler and Gridmapper.

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  1. Mipui icon
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    Mipui is an online, grid-based map editor, with focus on simplicity and collaboration - all edits appear in real-time to other viewers.

    36 Mipui alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Mipui is the most popular Web-based alternative to GM Friend.

    • Mipui is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GM Friend.

    • Mipui is Free and Open SourceGM Friend is Free and Proprietary
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    Eigengrau's Essential Establishment Generator is a tabletop procedural generation tool for towns, NPCs and much more. It creates paragraphs of text suitable to be read directly to players during a game.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Eigengrau's Generator is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to GM Friend.

    • Eigengrau's Generator is Free and Open SourceGM Friend is Free and Proprietary
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    Make your own maps in a hand drawn style for your favourite tabletop rpg games like Dungeons and Dragons (DnD). Save your time by using this tool to create maps effortlessly instead of drawning them from scratch. You can even export, edit and print them!

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Dungeon Maker Sketch is the most popular Windows alternative to GM Friend.

    • Dungeon Maker Sketch is the most popular commercial alternative to GM Friend.

    • Dungeon Maker Sketch is Paid and ProprietaryGM Friend is Free and Proprietary
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    Dungeon Map Doodler is a free to use drawing tool accessible from any web browser. Easily create maps for your favourite tabletop RPGs in minutes!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Gridmapper icon
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    A little Javascript/SVG application to create dungeon maps for role-playing games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. donjon.bin.sh icon
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    donjon.bin.sh is a freely accessible, online collection of random generators and other tools for pen-and-paper role-playing games. The collection provides a comprehensive range of advanced generators for creating names, demographics, maps, adventures and even entire worlds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Dungeon Mapper is a map-making tool to easily create grid based maps for your computer games (dungeon-crawler,rpg) in browser and online publishing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    RPG Map Editor is the new version of ANAmap, an online grid-based map editor for role-playing games with emphasis on simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Hextml icon
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    Hextml is a web-based map maker and campaign manager. It uses the best of HTML5 to let you make beautiful hexagonal maps. Maps can be linked together with submaps to design some location with more details. Custom tiles can be imported into the software.

    18 Hextml alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Dungeon Sketch is a lo-fi tactical combat map for tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons. This is meant to replace the whiteboard or graph paper that sits in the middle of a gaming table.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
    • Dungeon Sketch is the most popular Android alternative to GM Friend.

    • Dungeon Sketch is Free and Open SourceGM Friend is Free and Proprietary
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    Throw away that graph paper, Ye Olde Map Maker is the way to creating quick and easy maps for your RPG adventures. Design and print RPG game maps on any device with thousands of maps instantly available for your use. An incredible resource for your next campaign!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
    • Ye Olde Map Maker is the most popular iPhone alternative to GM Friend.

    • Ye Olde Map Maker is Paid and ProprietaryGM Friend is Free and Proprietary
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    PaperDungeonMaker is a simple, free online tool to randomly generate tiled, dungeon maps for use with tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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