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Build tabletop RPG battle maps with digital versions of RPG Stencil symbols. Learn how to customize a layout, generate ideas, save your work, and print a map for your next session.
Start with the introduction below, or open the free tool and try it yourself.
Create, customize, generate, save, and print tabletop battle maps with the free RPG Stencils Map Maker.
Tutorials, stencil workflows, and tips to draw crisp encounter maps fast.
A stencil-first guide to drawing clean dungeon rooms, consistent corridors, and crystal-clear doors using wall and door stencils. Includes 3 fast layouts you can reuse forever.
Use fence and spike wall stencils with grass/cobble floors and signposts to shape courtyards, gardens, and compounds that play fast—clear boundaries, smart chokepoints, and stealth routes. Includes a reusable guildhouse/manor compound map.
Build fortified camp encounter maps that feel different from open fights: spike walls, fence lines, gate doors, and torch cues that create chokepoints, breach points, and siege-style decisions.
Draw graveyards and ruined outdoor fights that stay readable at night: gravestones as cover, ruined walls as line-of-sight blockers, cracked/stone floors as difficult terrain cues, and torch placement that creates tension.
Compare battle map stencil sizes, grid alignment, tracing-tool fit, and symbol selection to choose a kit for your tabletop RPG maps.
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Stencils give you speed, consistent icons, readable silhouettes, and repeatable layouts. Here's how they help at the table.