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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.
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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.
Build travel encounter maps that run fast: a clear crossroads, a signpost objective, and just enough loot/cover to create choices. Includes 3 drop-in crossroads scenes: safe, suspicious, and deadly.
A stencil-first guide to building undercity hideouts that feel lived-in and playable: wood/stone walls, small doors, crates/chests/bags, and torch cues. Includes contraband and stash room patterns you can reuse.
A stencil-first guide to tavern battle maps that run smoothly: readable lanes, clear sightlines, and props that imply tables and chaos. Includes 3 ready-to-draw tavern layouts.
Make noble spaces instantly feel ‘higher status’ with throne, fancy/tile floors, large doors, and wall torch symmetry. Includes three throne room templates: ceremony, ambush, and secret meeting.
Build town squares that run fast at the table: readable intersections, market stalls, patrol routes, and clear ‘where combat breaks out’ lanes—using signpost, fence wall, cobble/grass floors, and simple prop clusters.
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Stencils give you speed, consistent icons, readable silhouettes, and repeatable layouts. Here's how they help at the table.