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I like urban campaigns. This gives me plenty of fun wallowing in the seedy underbelly of my fantasies. I like a small, limited scope...

The OD&D variant Seven Voyages of Zylarthen suggests using dominoes to lay out a room ( removing them after the PCs have left), up to...

What did you think of the Magic Square dungeon idea?* Doesn't that sound like fun? * I'm making myself vulnerable here so be gentle.

This looks to be boiling down to We-Like-Puzzles Players versus We-Hate-Puzzles Players. And I think we lean toward, er...topple over to...

The DM giving them an accurate map one room at a time is far easier on a VTT than it is in person because the VTT very neatly preserves...

Cool! What...happens...after...that...?

I get it. But what happens when we fail our mapping/memory skill checks?

Word.

Have you ever heard of HärnWorld? If maps are your fetish then Härn is your pornography. The Continental and regional maps are great...

Of course it corresponds to a character activity. It’s just that any map the character could make is also imaginary and therefore not...

Emulation doesn’t matter. What matters is whether or not navigating the space is meant to be part of the gameplay challenge. If it is...

The Characters aren't doing anything, the Players are doing everything. And the Players aren't just playing the game, they're spilling...

It's funny. These sorts of threads always cause me to be a lot more self-reflective on my experiences. And thinking about this, I've...

We got really sidetracked didn't we. After Lanefan's comment I was like, "Oh yeah, that is what we're supposed to be talking about."

I'm not an artist so I use word maps This is of a continent with the main kingdoms and other spaces shown. The distance apart is very...