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I'll freely admit to bias as my degree is in geography, but without the "what is where" piece the other type of exploration can at best... -
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It corresponds to the character forming a good-enough memory of the venue to be able to draw a map afterwards. I can draw sketch-maps... -
Exploration is about both "what is here" (knowledge) and "where is what" (geography). The latter is where mapping comes in. There's no...
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M_Natas replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.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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Of course it corresponds to a character activity. It’s just that any map the character could make is also imaginary and therefore not...
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My preference is to show the on-graph-paper maps to the players, but if they want to draw their own, they have to use plain paper. I...
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No worries! Just curious. Regardless, I think you have some compelling thoughts about dungeon design!
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It definitely is a set of principles that specifically aims to make a dungeon easier to map for the players’ benefit. While it doesn’t...
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M_Natas replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.Sadly not - Life happens and two kids later I struggle to post anything at all on my blog ^^.
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M_Natas replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.It is more acknowledging that we are people playing pretend elf sitting at a table in someone's kitchen or dinning room. It needs to be...
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VTT tokens I made for players in my first DM'd game, started 2 months ago! VTT tokens for summons from an ongoing campaign (Summon...
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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...
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M_Natas replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.For mapping - Players don't really need to put down more than a general shape of the room (not even that, a bubble is okay 'flowcharting...
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M_Natas replied to the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It?.This. My group maps. I as a player do that and as a DM I encourage it. But the "dungeon" needs to be mappable. Like, I started playing...
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M_Natas reacted to Basic Expert's post in the thread D&D General Mapping: How Do You Do It? with Like.
As a player, if I feel the need to map a dungeon, I use little boxes for rooms/areas with a descriptive label (such as "Statue" or...