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Finished reading The Story of the Glittering Plain by William Morris, continuing my tour of his fantasy works. I can see why JRR Tolkien... -
so the book i did an iil on finally showed up,so i'll dig into it this weekend. The Man from the Train is a 2017 true crime book...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad.My groups started using a 5' grid (though usually hexes) in the 90s too, during 2nd ed. We were happy with how battlemats cut down on...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad.Agreed. Thankfully most of his are designed to be a 10' square map scale.
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Mannahnin reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with
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My only issue with that map, if the squares are meant to be 5 foot squares, there would be far, far too many combats or encounters where... -
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I thought we might look at a map (that I think is a really good design) just as a way to discuss some specifics: This is, of course, a...
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Mannahnin reacted to Hussar's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
Heh. Now yes. There's a GREAT point. The OOTA maps are truly attrocious. FAR, FAR too large. Like, pointlessly large. Take the...
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Secret areas, and secret doors (possibly between known areas, but enhancing manueverability). Jennell Jaquays' Borshak's Lair, I'm... -
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I forgot to mention that when prepping 10 foot square maps for Owlbear Rodeo, I pop the map into photoshop and erase the interior grid...
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Yeah. I got a pad of 14 x 17 inch graph paper (quarter inch boxes) for redrawing maps for this reason.
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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...
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Mannahnin reacted to THEMNGMNT's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
I take your point. But choke points are fairly common, big rooms are not. I'd prefer to see that flipped.
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I cannot emphasize this enough: Maps are too dang small! In my group, I have 5 players. Sometimes they have allies, henchmen, pets...
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Mannahnin reacted to timbannock's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
Seconding all of this. One great example is a lot of Caverns of Thracia (talk about going back to the founding and finding good...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad.The first core D&D book to suggest a 5' grid for tactical use with miniatures was 1981 Moldvay Basic. But when "Standard" dungeon...