Free RPG Day: Create maps for your Dungeons & Dragons game with Mipui Seth Kenlon Sat, 06/25/2022 - 03:00
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It's Free RPG Day again, and there's no better to play a free roleplaying game than with free and open source software. In this digital era of pen-and-paper gaming, it's still relatively unusual for adventures to include digital maps. In fact, it's also unusual for paper adventures to include maps that are sized correctly for miniatures, and many that do have colourful and richly textured maps that look great in a glossy book but look murky when photocopied and enlarged for the tabletop. Long story short: a tabletop gamer is often in need of a quick and convenient way to produce maps. Mipui is an open source web app that enables you to create grid-based maps for role-playing games, and it works great for virtual and physical tabletops alike.

No installation required

Mipui is primarily a hosted web app. If you use it and enjoy it, you can make a donation to help with operational costs at Mipui's ko-fi page.

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Installation

Alternately, you can install your own Mipui instance, because it's distributed with an MIT license. It's a Node.js application, and as long as you've got experience running a web server, it's

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