Dave's Mapper

[Lazybones]

http://davesmapper.com/

An interesting Map Making tool.

[Mr. Analog]

Cool!

[Darren Dirt]

almost an Easter Egg: uncheck all the tile sets, read the message

Cool!

even more cool: what genius will come out of this contest? http://www.thefreerpgblog.com/2011/02/24-hour-rpg-movie-mashup-competition.html

[Thorin]

The only downside to all these random mappers is there's no _story_ created for why the dungeon is the way it is.  When I DMed, I always thought up the plotline and at least part of the story first, then drew a dungeon that matched that general theme.  Sometimes it took a while to discover the theme, but there was always a theme or reason for the dungeon to exist.

[Mr. Analog]

I kinda like generating a dungeon and then thinking of what the rooms were for and then tweaking it a bit to make it work.

Though as I'm sure a few of you recall this sometimes didn't work out so well haha