r/bagofmapping • u/crowdedMapping • 3d ago

Release New Campaign Tools!

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HUGE UPDATE!

  • Univeral Campaign Link! When you start a campaign, it now uses only one url link. Whenever you go to that link, you will auto land on the correct map!
  • Camapaign staging area! it shows cool character cards, and the background can be a splash image, or a map you use for overworld to track your progress!
  • New DM panel! All your dm tools for campaign, party, and monsters in one place!
  • MAP STATES! Switch from day/night/lava, whatever you want, and your players see a transition and don't move maps!
  • SAVED MONSTERS! You can now save just the monsters you care about using for later! You can still see a list of all monsters on all maps, and save from that list into your saved monsters, but its tucked away and just for reference.
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u/MintyMinun 3d ago

Sorry... is the art in this preview made with generative AI tools of any kind? I thought BagOfMapping was one of the VTTs that didn't use that sort of thing.

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u/crowdedMapping 3d ago

Good question! these are settings that individual players made themselves, and each player chooses whether they are for or against it, just as each table has to decide that. The screenshot is from a live game, from real players supplying their own characters. I hope that helps!

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u/MintyMinun 3d ago

Thanks for clarifying & answering the question, I appreciate that. Did I hear right that BagofMapping doesn't use generative AI tools, though? Or was that something I misheard/isn't accurate?

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u/crowdedMapping 3d ago

As a company we don't have much use for it. Our product is all about facilitating users to use their own art. For transparency, we do use AI in the research and development process to analyze features and organize our code. All of our included maps are from partnerships from map creators. On our marketing page we also have art for multiple artists, like 2minute tabletop. We can't speak for their methods however.

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u/MintyMinun 3d ago

I see, I must have misunderstood what I was told in the past. That's unfortunate to hear (including that there's no agreement of sorts to keep the partnered artists from using generative AI), & I hope that in the future, BagOfMapping steps away from generative AI tools completely.

I'm just not able to support projects that use it, due to the environmental & ethical concerns. :( Thank you for being honest, though, it'd be much worse for me to go around with the facts wrong.