Watabou Generators

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Watabou's generators are a collection of free, browser-based tools that create beautiful fantasy maps in a single click. The best known is the Medieval Fantasy City Generator, joined by generators for villages, neighbourhoods, dwellings, one-page dungeons, caves and glades, mansions, taverns and whole fantasy regions. They are a go-to resource for tabletop RPG game masters, worldbuilders, writers and game developers who need a convincing map right now. The tools are made by the independent developer known as watabou, and they grew out of experiments in procedural generation: the first city generator was built for a monthly challenge on the proceduralgeneration subreddit. Today they share a recognizable, hand-drawn look and fall under the Procgen Arcana umbrella. The city generator alone has thousands of ratings on itch.io, averaging 4.8 out of 5. Watabou is generous with licensing too: maps can be copied, modified and used in commercial RPG adventures, with attribution appreciated but not required, and the city generator's source code is published. Highlights: • Medieval Fantasy City Generator for walled cities of any size • Village, Neighbourhood and Urban Places generators for smaller settlements • One Page Dungeon, Cave/Glade and Procgen Mansion generators for adventure sites • Dwellings and Taverns generators for multi-storey building floor plans • Perilous Shores for whole fantasy regions and coastlines • Style presets, context-menu options and keyboard shortcuts • JSON export of cities, viewable in 3D with the companion City Viewer All of the generators are free to use in the browser, and development is supported through Patreon. Maps can be used commercially without a fee. The tools run in modern web browsers on Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile devices.

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