Dungeons & Dragons: 10 Best Websites For D&D Players & DMs

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Although playing is some of the most fun a group of friends can have, it can also be a lot of hard work, especially for Dungeon Masters looking to run the best sessions they can. For players, there can often be notes to keep, plot threads to track, and a wealth of NPCs to remember as they attempt to survive the rigors their DM is bound to put them through. Note-taking can end up being a major part of any campaign on top of the math required when making calculations whenever a die is rolled.

All of this tracking comes to the forefront when playing the game entirely analog, with the table being quickly filled with stacks of paper, especially behind the DM's screen, and DMs can often be caught running through folders trying to find the one piece of information about a random goblin stuck in a well. This goes doubly for online play, which is infamous for being difficult to run compared to in-person play despite growing in popularity during Covid and lockdown.

Although probably not a tool most would think of when preparing for a session, Rasterbator is perfect for printing battle maps for an in-person session. It allows players to put in an image of their battle map and then choose how many A4 sheets it would be in size. Rasterbator can then separate the image into those A4 sheets as PDFs so that they can be printed individually, which is perfect for many household printers and is a good way of printing massive maps without hiring external services.

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Rasterbator can use JPEG or PNG files that are below 20 MBs in size, and states on its website that any image more than 8192 pixels wide or high will be downsized. For battle maps, or any TTRPG battle maps for that matter, this should be more than enough, especially because most maps won't be larger than A2 or A1 if the group is using official minis or similar minis at the same