If you aren't bothered about quality? Want something rough and ready?

1) Open a new spreadsheet in Excel. Click top left corner to select all cells and change the size to make square (click and drag on a column to shrink it)

2) Open graphics program of choice. Capture screen/area on the excel sheet you just made (it's your graph paper)

3) In graphics program of choice, create a new raster layer on your picture. Flood fill it with colour.

4) Use eraser tool to draw corridors. Use shape tool (or freehand select) shapes for rooms and press the delete key to get rid of the colour.

5) add boxes for doors, furniture symbols etc by hand or copy from old module whatever.

6) Merge all in your graphics program of choice.

Print.



It won't win 'best map ever' but it took 2 minutes.

There's open office for spreadsheets, I use Paintshop Pro, an ancient graphics package for the rest. Gimp etc, whatever is out there will have their own way of doing things, but all just about the same.

If you want a step by step breakdown I can show you (when I get back from work) but so long as you have and roughly know your way round a graphics program you'll be fine.

Thx a lot but i've found a working DC download and i think i'll stick to DungeonCrafter using the TSR blue tilesets which just looks gorgeous but takes quite some time but is rewarding nonetheless.  


btw.: Does anyone of you have or know where to get some nice tilesets for DungeonCrafter?

http://www.pbegames.com/print/

This guy has some stuff, don't know if it is exactly what you are looking for, but it is the old blue tiles style.

Not even remotely what i was looking for.
DungeonCrafter uses tilesets to generate dungeons.

If you want the most flexible tool then go with Inkscape. It is free to download.

http://www.inkscape.org

Probably the easier way to use it would be to use Inkscape and import in dungeon tiles like the ones found for Pymapper.

http://pymapper.com/downloads/