Fantasy battle map generator for D&D, Pathfinder, and every fantasy table

Describe the scene the way you’d tell your players. A top-down, gridless map comes back in under a minute.

Whatever your table runs, and any other fantasy system

NeedAMap makes fantasy battle maps from a written description. Type the gatehouse, the cavern, or the marsh the way it reads in your notes, and the map comes back drawn from directly above, with the cover, terrain, and objects you named, ready to drop onto Roll20, Foundry VTT, or Owlbear Rodeo, or to print for the table.

Every map is encounter scale: one gatehouse, one cavern, one camp, drawn at the size where five-foot squares matter. Fantasy is the widest genre a table can run, and one description box covers all of it.

Made from a description, word for word

Five maps from the library, each with the exact words that made it.

Castle gatehouse under siege: fantasy battle map with a half-raised drawbridge, moat, burning ladders, barracks, and armory seen from above

Castle gatehouse under siege

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Castle gatehouse under siege, drawbridge half raised, burning ladders, murder holes”

Underdark fungus cavern: fantasy battle map with glowing mushrooms, stalagmites, and a rope bridge over a black lake

Underdark fungus cavern

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Underdark fungus cavern, glowing mushrooms, a rope bridge over a black lake”

Hag’s hut on stilts in a misty marsh: fantasy battle map with a bone fence, boardwalks, dead trees, and a rotting rowboat

Hag’s hut in the marsh

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Hag’s hut on stilts in a misty marsh, bone fence, rotting rowboat”

Desert caravan camp at dusk: fantasy battle map with tents around a dry well, palms, rocks, and tethered camels

Desert caravan camp

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Desert caravan camp at dusk, tents around a dry well, palms, tethered camels”

Sunken elven shrine: fantasy battle map with a waterfall through the broken roof, mossy statues, columns, and a mosaic floor

Sunken elven shrine

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Sunken elven shrine, waterfall pouring through the broken roof, mossy statues”

See all examples →

The scenes a fantasy campaign runs into

Castles, keeps, and gatehouses

The wall the party has to get over, the gate they have to hold, the barracks behind it. Name the towers and the drawbridge and they land where you said.

Caverns and the Underdark

Fungus forests, rope bridges over black water, stalagmites for cover. Say where the light comes from and the map carries it.

Marshes, swamps, and witches’ huts

Stilt houses, rotting boardwalks, bone fences, and the one solid path through the mud. Difficult terrain is the whole fight, and you decide where it sits.

Ruins, shrines, and lost temples

Toppled columns, altars under open sky, statues that might be more than statues. Say what still stands and the fight gets its cover.

Deserts, roads, and wilderness camps

Caravan camps around a dry well, dune ridges, a ruined waystation on the trade road. A few tents and palms turn open ground into a position worth defending.

Dungeons, taverns, and towns

The staples every campaign returns to. The D&D map generator page covers crypts, taverns, streets, ships, and boss arenas, with six more maps.

How it works

1

Describe the scene

Write it the way you’d narrate it: the gatehouse, what’s burning, where the drawbridge sits. One sentence made each map above. More detail gives you more control.

2

Pick the shape, resolution, and style

Square for a chamber, Wide for a road, Cinematic for the set piece. 1K for quick prep, 2K when players zoom in, 4K for print. Painted, Gritty, or Ink to match the campaign.

3

Download and drop it in

Under a minute later the map is in your library as a standard image. Drag it onto your VTT page, or print it.

The first description on this page, exactly as typed

“Castle gatehouse under siege, drawbridge half raised, burning ladders, murder holes”

The full walkthrough →

An engine built for one thing

Every map runs through rules written for the table, so what comes back is something you can play on.

Drawn straight down

Flat and overhead, no tilt, so tokens sit square on the floor.

Empty of figures

No people or creatures baked in. Your tokens are the only ones on the map.

Edge to edge

No borders, titles, or compass roses to crop away. What you download goes straight on the table.

Faithful to your words

What you describe wins: the content, the lighting, the layout. Painted, Gritty, and Ink change how it’s drawn, and the scene stays yours.

Under the hood: current frontier image models, wrapped in map rules refined scene by scene since the first tavern.

5 free maps

when you sign up, no credit card

Under a minute

from description to finished map

Credits come back

automatically if a generation fails

Commercial use

allowed on every tier, including free

Related pages

Common questions

Any of them. A map is an image with no rules attached, so the same gatehouse works for D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, Daggerheart, Shadowdark, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Old-School Essentials, Dragonbane, Forbidden Lands, 13th Age, Savage Worlds, or your homebrew. Your VTT supplies the grid and your system supplies the rules.

No grid lines are drawn on the image. Roll20, Foundry VTT, and Owlbear Rodeo each overlay their own grid on an imported map, so you set the square size once in the VTT and nothing on the image fights the alignment.

Yes. The D&D map generator page shows six of them with their descriptions. This page covers the rest of the genre: castles, caverns, marshes, ruins, deserts, and the road between them.

Your first 5 maps are free at 1K resolution, with no credit card. After that, a 1K map costs 1 credit, 2K costs 2, and 4K costs 4. The monthly plan is $4 for 15 credits, rolling over up to 30, and a $3 pack adds 10 credits that never expire.

Yes. Commercial use is allowed on every tier, including the free one. Run paid sessions with them, put them in a module you sell, or print them for a convention table.

Castle gatehouse battle map, shown behind the sign-up call to action

Your fantasy encounter, mapped in under a minute

5 free maps, no credit card required.

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