Battle Map Studio Reviews

Really impressive map builder from Solo indie dev! Must buy if Tilt Five owner For Tilt Five AR Headset owners: Well its the only Tilt Five Virtual Tabletop available, so by default it is the best! Honestly its so impressive just to move around in the headset around a map built on your computer, that I can totally see a group of motivated folks using it as a hologram battlemap. I never got the hang of using the wand but its totally possible to use a wireless keyboard and mouse instead with the T5 and once you learn a few hotkeys, you can build maps in the headset. IMO you really only need to be able to pan/zoom/rotate with headset, and click a character to move/attack. I'd rather there be a wand setting for players who won't build in order to facilitate easy pickup (IE - trigger click creature, press button x for move, press button y for attack, other buttons/functions are for easiest camera movement) For Non-Headset owners: The actual act of map-building is really smooth, especially if you take time to set up a palette of cohesive items/props. It can literally just be paint random props in an area, set some interesting elevations, and boom - you've got a pretty interesting completely 3D navigable map in a few minutes. Much much quicker than something like Talespire (which the same process would take hours, although it might end up prettier). The VTT features are still a little lacking - moving and attacking works just fine, and the built-in assets are pretty good, especially for a wilderness campaign. The asset importer is great, especially easy with heroforge. Character sheets are there but not as good as you'll find with D&D Beyond, and still a work in progress. Maybe a ruler or some AOE props would help here, but it does everything a pen & paper would do so its still ok

So as with most of these tabletiop "sandboxes" the playable part of it is extremely limited and the 3d maps you make aren't usable in any known systems. I like the base of it, there is something to build on here but it crashes so much! Even the demo is running badly. I feel like this generator would be better of as a asset for game creation(which it is) than any ttrpg running Note to dev: You are missing a d100 in dice choices.