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AI battle map generator for tabletop RPGs. Type a scene, get a top-down map on a square grid at up to 4K. Exports PNG or .dd2vtt for Foundry, with walls, doors, and lights. 3 free tokens to start, no card needed. Commercial use allowed.

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Text to Tabletop is an AI battle map generator for tabletop RPGs. Describe a scene in plain words, such as "a roadside inn at night with a burning hearth and a small kitchen", and get a top-down map on a square grid, ready for your table or your virtual tabletop. Built around the grid...
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It does one thing: battle maps for tabletop RPGs, built around the grid.
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Game masters who run tabletop RPGs such as 5e, Pathfinder, and other fantasy systems, especially:
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I play D&D, and our group kept running into the same moment: the players head somewhere we have no map for, or come up with a plan nobody saw coming, and the fight happens on a blank table. It is much more fun to play with something you can see than with nothing.
So I built Text to Tabletop to make a map in the time it takes to describe one. You type the scene, pick the size in squares, and get a top-down map on a grid you can put on the table or drop into a virtual tabletop, often while the players are still deciding what to do. Map editors make beautiful maps but take hours, and general AI image tools make pictures that do not line up with a grid, so the tool was built around the grid from the start. Since then, it has grown with what GMs asked for: editing one area of a map, 4K output, and a .dd2vtt export with walls and doors for Foundry.
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Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago
I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago
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