Battle Map Studio

Decent map maker considering the fact that it's early access. Would love a way to make custom assets. And an option for steam remote play would be amazing as my players have no need to make maps, only play on them. OR make a heavily discounted version of the program that only allows playing. The UI is garbage as of now, hopefuly it improves over time. Will probably just use it to make custom top down 2d maps until it gets usable. Will rewrite the review when/if i test this thing out a bit more.

If a game requires internet to be played please disclose that information. Initially the game would not work without internet. It appears to be offline capable now!!

This game is a really good DnD application that sadly does not have many people I see using it. Tons of great potential, adding more features for DnD and making the lives of DND players and DMs much easier.

The best map maker I've used to date, Battle Map Studio lets you make your 2D maps become 3D! I especially love the terrain tool and how easy it is to elevate and flatten terrain. I also love the building tool, it is super easy to make buildings, even with hex grids. It does take a little bit to get the controls down, but the tutorials help a lot. The only thing that I think this game could improve on is adding different genres of blocks to the game. I know this game is centered around D&D games, but I would LOVE if the developer was able to add Sci-Fi or post apocalyptic buildings and decorations. My friends play a lot of Fallout, and they would love a map maker that catered to their genre. The price is a bit steep for an early access game, but I think it is worth the price. All in all, I would give this game an 8/10. Update: So I stopped playing Battle Map Studio a few months ago. There just wasn't enough content. I loved building terrain and hexes, the base system is good. There needs to be more assets that you can add to the game. More character models and different types of decorations. That sort of thing.

In less than 2 hours I was able to learn the interface and build a pretty detailed landscape map. I like it. It looks great on the Tilt Five.

its fun for a person whit a creative mind so theres that, this game is still on the works to get like more options on what you want to see in your building, so expect to see more in the future, but even now you got many options too choose from

So as with most of these tabletiop "sandboxes" the playable part of it is extremely limited and the 3d maps you make aren't usable in any known systems. I like the base of it, there is something to build on here but it crashes so much! Even the demo is running badly. I feel like this generator would be better of as a asset for game creation(which it is) than any ttrpg running Note to dev: You are missing a d100 in dice choices.

This has all the tools I need to run my online TTRPG my way.

Really impressive map builder from Solo indie dev! Must buy if Tilt Five owner For Tilt Five AR Headset owners: Well its the only Tilt Five Virtual Tabletop available, so by default it is the best! Honestly its so impressive just to move around in the headset around a map built on your computer, that I can totally see a group of motivated folks using it as a hologram battlemap. I never got the hang of using the wand but its totally possible to use a wireless keyboard and mouse instead with the T5 and once you learn a few hotkeys, you can build maps in the headset. IMO you really only need to be able to pan/zoom/rotate with headset, and click a character to move/attack. I'd rather there be a wand setting for players who won't build in order to facilitate easy pickup (IE - trigger click creature, press button x for move, press button y for attack, other buttons/functions are for easiest camera movement) For Non-Headset owners: The actual act of map-building is really smooth, especially if you take time to set up a palette of cohesive items/props. It can literally just be paint random props in an area, set some interesting elevations, and boom - you've got a pretty interesting completely 3D navigable map in a few minutes. Much much quicker than something like Talespire (which the same process would take hours, although it might end up prettier). The VTT features are still a little lacking - moving and attacking works just fine, and the built-in assets are pretty good, especially for a wilderness campaign. The asset importer is great, especially easy with heroforge. Character sheets are there but not as good as you'll find with D&D Beyond, and still a work in progress. Maybe a ruler or some AOE props would help here, but it does everything a pen & paper would do so its still ok

Still quite a few problems with crashing, especially when trying to use weather tools, but I'm sure that will get fixed with patches. So far I love all the various options for assets, and love the fact that you can import Hero Forge figures into the maps. One thing I would like to see in the future (if it isn't already implemented and I just missed it) is the ability to export the maps you make into JPG's or PNG's so they can be physically printed out onto paper and posters for real world use. So far this studio is looking super promising and I'm stoked to see how the devs improve it over time!