Maps, maps, maps!

[Metal Head Bard]

So this "Tablet" you guys speak of, is it basically a high tech pencil and paper for your computer? And GIMP, is that he software? And where can I buy this "Tablet"?

[Ishmayl-Retired]

You can find them at amazon, I recommend the Grapphire for a good price and good quality.

[Ninja D!]

You can find them all over these sticky intarwebs...and the ones that they have at Best Buy are pretty nice (my girlfriend bought one) but very expensive.

[Jürgen Hubert]

There are a bunch of digital cartography tutorials here. They are for GIMP and Inkscape - both freely downloadable Open Source programs.

[Kaptn'Lath]

tablet is not neccessary, you just use it instead of a mouse. I dony use one, they are faster and easyer to draw with (obviously). I just use GIMP for mapping and inkscape for labling (and eventually rivers too).