Modern battle map generator for the present-day scenes your table walks into

Brief the team on the building. A top-down, gridless map comes back in under a minute.

Delta Green, Monster of the Week, or any present-day table

Modern scenes are the places you drove past today. Describe the garage, the gas station, or the office floor the way the team would case it, and NeedAMap draws it from above with the crashed cars, the pumps, and the cubicles in place, ready for Roll20, Foundry VTT, Owlbear Rodeo, or print.

Each map is one building or one lot at encounter scale, where a five-foot square is a parking space or a cubicle. Concrete and glass give a firefight its lanes, and the same description box handles a rooftop at night, an emergency room, and a diner off the highway.

Made from a description, word for word

Five modern maps from the library, with the description each one was made from.

Rooftop parking garage at night: modern battle map with flickering lights, crashed cars, and a stairwell door seen from above

Rooftop parking garage

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Rooftop parking garage at night, flickering lights, crashed cars, a stairwell door”

Rain-soaked gas station at midnight: modern battle map with pumps, a convenience store, and an overturned truck

Gas station at midnight

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Rain-soaked gas station at midnight, pumps, convenience store, an overturned truck”

Corporate office floor after a shootout: modern battle map with cubicles, a glass conference room, and a server closet

Office floor after a shootout

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Corporate office floor after a shootout, cubicles, glass conference room, server closet”

Modern hospital emergency room: battle map with curtained bays, overturned gurneys, and fluorescent-lit corridors

Hospital emergency room

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Modern hospital emergency room, curtained bays, overturned gurneys, flickering fluorescents”

Highway rest stop diner at night: modern battle map with parked semi trucks, dumpsters, and a dark tree line

Highway rest stop diner

  • Square
  • 1K
  • Painted

The description

“Highway rest stop diner at night, parked semi trucks, dumpsters, a dark tree line”

See all examples →

The scenes a modern campaign runs into

Parking garages and rooftops

Flickering lights, crashed cars, one stairwell door. Concrete gives a fight its lanes, so say where the cars ended up.

Gas stations and roadside

Pumps, a convenience store, a truck on its side in the rain. Describe the time of night and the map carries the weather.

Offices and corporate floors

Cubicles, a glass conference room, the server closet everyone forgets. Name what got shot and the aftermath is drawn in.

Hospitals and clinics

Curtained bays, overturned gurneys, a corridor under fluorescent light. Say which bay the patient was in.

Diners, rest stops, and highways

Semi trucks in a row, dumpsters, a tree line that is too dark. Roadside scenes need the parking lot as much as the building, so describe both.

Warehouses, motels, and subways

The staples. The example gallery shows a warehouse under broken skylights, a roadside motel, and a subway platform with the descriptions that made them.

How it works

1

Describe the scene

Write it the way you’d narrate it: the garage, which lights still work, where the cars ended up. One sentence made each map above. More detail gives you more control.

2

Pick the shape, resolution, and style

Square for a room, 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

“Rooftop parking garage at night, flickering lights, crashed cars, a stairwell door”

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

Describe the layout and the objects: “two-pump gas station, convenience store with a back office, ice chest by the door.” The map follows the layout you give it, and the engine works to keep logos and lettering off the map unless your description asks for a sign.

Yes, when you describe them. Crashed cars, a row of semi trucks, an overturned truck all appear where you put them. They are scenery, so the people inside them are your tokens.

One map at a time. Describe the parking lot for the approach and the office floor for the fight, and both stay in your library for the session.

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.

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.

Office floor battle map, shown behind the sign-up call to action

Your next scene, mapped in under a minute

5 free maps, no credit card required.

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