
Adding neighbor colorĬoolors lets you quickly add a new color column beside an existing one. Coolors has a convenient shades features to let you quickly see those options, and pick one. I often want a darker or lighter version of a color. If your world has a certain overall tone to it, this would be a great way to set a base color you want to work off of. After that, keeping hitting SPACE to get other options that pair well with that color. When you see a color you like you can lock it in place. There are too many options in this tool to cover today, but I'll highlight a couple of my personal favorites. This tool has solid color theory baked into its algorithm. The magic here is that all the color palettes will look professionally composed by default. Navigate to the Coolors website, click on 'Generate' in the menu bar, then start pressing your SPACE bar. I've used more than 20 color palette creators throughout my career, and nothing has ever come close to Coolors. Thankfully, there are generators to help us with this!

The default color scheme is quite nice! But we will make it our own by adding a delightful color palette.ĭesigning your own color palette from scratch is a big job (we will save the color theory discussions for a future newsletter). Step 2: Generate a color paletteĪt this point you could select "Export as PNG" and walk away with a really nice looking village map. Go to "Trees" and try some of those options. In my opinion, the villages look much better with some tree cover (assuming you don't want a desert-like village). You can also add trees using the settings dialogue. Click on "Show Title" and it will go away. If you want to hide the name of the town, you can right-click to make the settings dialogue appear. Navigate to the generator, click on the map, then start pressing ENTER to generate maps. Today, we will start with the village generator. The village generator is the perfect tool to build your own D&D town map in just a few minutes.


Watabou is one of the best generator developers out there! They have a number of generators you can use for free.

Random generators are an indispensable tool for busy worldbuilders. We will then use the map settings and a color scheme generator to add our own flair. In today's newsletter we are going to use Watabou's village generator to create a map in seconds.
