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Etch - Dungeon Editor

Introducing Etch — a simple browser-based dungeon map editor from Tavern of Azoth. Quickly generate and draw grid-based dungeons, drag creatures onto the map as tokens, and print your map page creature sheets in one go.

Introducing Etch - A Simple Dungeon Map Editor

Tavern of Azoth is building a browser-based dungeon map editor designed to be extremely fast and easy to use. As a GM, it enables you to rapidly generate a dungeons and tweak them to suit your campaign's needs.

Draw a Dungeon in Seconds

Etch dungeon map canvas showing a drawn dungeon layout with rooms, corridors, and grid overlay

Etch gives you a selection of simple, focused drawing tools — allowing you to quickly carve out rooms or draw with the cavern brush, which produces natural, winding cave walls. The grid and snapping system allow for some flexibility while generally keeping that classic graph-paper feel.

Populate Your Dungeon with Creatures

Creature tokens placed on an Etch dungeon map with illustrated portraits and size-accurate grid placement

Browse creatures from the Tavern's Compendium or from your personal collections and drag them directly onto the map as tokens.

Designed to Be Printed

Etch print preview showing a dungeon map automatically tiled across multiple printable sheets

When you're ready to bring your dungeon to the physical table, the print preview automatically tiles your map for easy printing.

Creature Sheets, Right Alongside Your Map

Printable creature stat sheets with illustrated portraits generated from Etch dungeon map

Every creature you've placed on the map can have its full stat sheet printed as a companion page to your dungeon. Select the ones you need, and they get appended right after your map pages in a single print job.

Etch is available now at the Tavern of Azoth. We're building these tools for you, so if you have any ideas or suggestions we'd love to hear from you. This is still early days, and the roadmap is shaped by everyone here. Happy mapping! 🗺️ ⚔️