thank you for the suggestions, everyone.

As cool as all these big maps the folks here are making, right now I'm just trying to make some visually interesting battle maps for virtual table top dnd. Right now, I've been making them in Dundjinni's trial version, zooming way in and screenshotting and stitching them together in paint!

I downloaded Fractal Mapper's demo and was all confuzzled, so I think something simple, at least for now, is the way to go for me!