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Hey everyone

So I did a search and couldn't find what I was looking for, also checked out the FFG resources thread and the random dungeon generator that was there, and while it was good it wasn't quite what i was looking for.

Now i picked up Rogue Trader at the weekend and played a few hours of it with a couple of friends, but now I'm thinking about working on my own campaign based loosely on the missions in the book. Now the writing of the campaign and all that is going OK, just getting my head around the rules etc, but where I'm tripping up is actually creating the world.

I was wondering if anyone new of a good map creating facility for 40k (or generic sci fi) that exists? I searched on the Googles and found plenty for fantasy but not really anything for a sci fi setting. A free one would be good but I'm willing to pay for one if there's one that's worth it.

Also a friend of mine showed me a video of some people on youtube playing rogue trader and they had this whole program that they were using to run the game, I have been unable to find anything about this program, may be they made it themselves but I was wondering if anyone could point me in a general direction to find something like this?

Thanks in advance

I think Dunjinni has some sci-fi themed 'map packs' but is more for doing maps of key locations.

Otherwise, you can definitely make-do with either sketching on paper or using any paint/illustration program like Photoshop, MSPaint, GIMP, Illustrator, etc.

There's several online tabletop tools. I used to use one called KloogeWerks which worked,m but was a bit iffy. Look for things like 'virtual tabletop' possibly with 'Rogue Trader' added to automate support.

I use Maptool, which works pretty well, and is free. It can do dice rolling, restricted vision, fog of war and all that good stuff. It can do square grids or hexes, or completely gridless play.

You can make simple maps with the basic software, but the more images and textures you download for yourself from various resource sites, the more versitile the tool becomes.

For sci fi specific stuff, the website RPG Map Share has a huge library of maps including sci fi maps that you can browse through.

It can be a pain to network though, as it sometimes needs port forwarding for it to work. If you're running it on just one laptop or something, it should be no problem at all to set up and run.