World's Largest Dungeon?

[thundershot]

Malfunction. Need input.



Chris

 

[Cergorach]

2 square miles => 5,179,976.22 square meters
25 square feet (5'x5') => 2.322576 square meters
5,179,976.22/2.322576=2,230,272 5'x5' squares
2,230,272/16(maps)=139,392 squares per map
~314x444 5'x5' squares per map
~less than 2mm per 5'x5' square

Either the maps are bigger than 24"x34", there are a lot of maps in the book that are not on the foldout maps, the maps are two sided, the maps don't feature 5' squares, or the 2 square mile balpark was way off.

 

[DaveMage]

What if the squares are 10' x 10'?

4 mm per square?

 

[Beard in the Sky]

Bump

 

[jim pinto]

been quiet

sorry for being out of touch for so long

i promise to have 3 new encounters to post on friday
to make up for my absence

 

[DaveMage]

Looking forward to it...

I do have a question, though. Are you working on the Accordlands books as well? If so, how in the world are you going to edit/write 2400 pages by the Fall?

 

[Goobermunch]

/bump

 

[Cergorach]

What if the squares are 10' x 10'?

4 mm per square?

that could be a possibility, but that way i could produce the world's biggest dungeon without a hitch, with just drawing a dungeon and saying that the squares are 100' x 100'

Nah, if they use a bigger square scale than 5' x 5' i would feel that they where cheating just to get to use the name biggest dungeon...

 

[Cergorach]

I do have a question, though. Are you working on the Accordlands books as well? If so, how in the world are you going to edit/write 2400 pages by the Fall?

~14 weeks left, => ~100 days
2400/100=24 pages per day
A healthy 8 hours a day of sleep leaves a nice 16 hours a day for writing and editing.
24/16=1.5 pages per hour
Thus around a page per 40 minutes sounds about right ;-)

 

[jim pinto]

~14 weeks left, => ~100 days
2400/100=24 pages per day
A healthy 8 hours a day of sleep leaves a nice 16 hours a day for writing and editing.
24/16=1.5 pages per hour
Thus around a page per 40 minutes sounds about right ;-)

oh crap

that's good.

i am not in charge of the accordlands.
i'm helping with mechanics and format where i can, but
that's someone else's game. not mine. besides, writing/editing
the WLD is already killing me, so i don't think i need to die twice.

you guys do know i'm the art director for the company, right?
which is already a 40 hour a week job?

squares are 10 x 10, with the DM having the option of making them 5 x 5 if he likes or 20 x 20. scale is scale. this dungeon is the LARGEST, because it contains the most encounters and covers the most wall space in your room,
not because it takes a fleet of custodians to clean it

btw... we redid the math, yesterday.

at 10 x 10 its 1.5 square miles

and since square miles are exponential, 5 x 5 would be a .5 square miles (still pretty big) and at 20 x 20 its the size of rhode island.