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Lakesidefantasy reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with
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For me the best map designer and artist is Heroic Maps. It doesn’t hurt that they are always beautiful maps but the quality of the... -
Lakesidefantasy reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
One other impression I've gotten is that at somepoint in the history of dungeon design, the default grid size went from 10 feet to 5...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
A lot of the things that are often brought up as good aspects of dungeon maps are things that I think are great about 90% of the time...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad.I think the dungeons should make some sense rather than the most sense. It's a nuanced difference, but one I think we both are in...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad.I try to make sure that there are multiple ways to make our way through a dungeon, but all of the ways bring us through the same number...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
I have tried to use real world castles in play and they just don't work well for what D&D is trying to do. I don't think realism in...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Stormonu's post in the thread D&D General Lets Make a 5e 2024 Setting - World Structure with Like.
I think if I were to do this, I'd start with a central "metropolis" like kingdom where all the various races congregate and that is...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.Yes! 👍
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Blue's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
As a generality (and not true of all groups), there are other uses of session time that bring more joy then players mapping. So in...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Lets Make a 5e 2024 Setting - World Structure with Like.
Big continent, points of light, urban sprawl. World-hopping is kind of "Whatever" to me. Yeah it makes the fantasy "Bigger" but you can...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to M_Natas's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
Outside of VTTs it is quite time consuming to either draw a more or less detailed map at the table as the PCs explore the Dungeon or...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Lets Make a 5e 2024 Setting - World Structure.I like urban campaigns. This gives me plenty of fun wallowing in the seedy underbelly of my fantasies. I like a small, limited scope...
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Lakesidefantasy reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
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...
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.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.
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Lakesidefantasy replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.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...