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I like 1/4 inch or 5 mm because I wear glasses. I think we should err on the side of accessibility.

Or discovering the back of a secret door. Not all secret doors are secret from both sides.

Another good one is having the bodies of guards or whatever the PCs have already killed disappear, with the only clue being a drag mark...

Clues to secret doors come in different forms; leaving them open is a clue and it also makes the dungeon seem alive, so to speak. I...

Yeah. I also like the device of having a trap or secret door early in the dungeon left open/fired, maybe with a body lying in it, as a...

Yeah, but I remember that part of older adventures as not being fun. It was not fun searching every wall for secret doors and every door...

We should talk a bit about secret doors in dungeon maps. Secret doors are better if they're not really secret. Indeed, they're...

The whole fantasy genre is based around nostalgia for an imaginary past. And the D&D game was built by pastiching classic fantasy...

One of the things I really dislike that has come out of the rise of popularity of D&D (and to some degree other RPGs; but let's be...

If you're talking strictly about maps, the main things seem to be multiple entrances, multiple possible paths as often as possible...

Yeah. I got a pad of 14 x 17 inch graph paper (quarter inch boxes) for redrawing maps for this reason.

I love dungeons. Yes I do. :D Probably the biggest addition you can make to dungeon design is verticality. So many dungeon maps are...

Ah, verisimilitude in setting vs game play - the conflict of the ages within D&D. Do the monsters (or lord of the castle) live in a...

I think we would need to use a 10-ft map scale in order to get larger chambers because these maps are likely* to be confined to a 8.5 x...