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I dunno, I wish! It seems like there's a lot more going on in a small space than most dungeons you see (just going by the map, ignoring...

Secret areas, and secret doors (possibly between known areas, but enhancing manueverability). Jennell Jaquays' Borshak's Lair, I'm...

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

I used a lot of gridded maps back in 1E & B/X, having gotten miniatures literally the day after I got my first D&D books. Though the...

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...

I don't do this nearly often enough. I will make myself a note! Yeah, I was speaking of castles specifically. There are tons of very...

Yes, that change happened in 3e. 3e introduced a 5-foot grid as the standard scale for combat, but some dungeon maps still used a...

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...

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...

To me, simulation is simply the idea of modeling the game's setting as realistically as possible within the practical limits of play...

I think that is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of simulation and of heroism in the context of D&D. The big misunderstanding...

Thanks! To be honest, I'm a little less enthusiastic about it now. Dominos - even nice heavy dominos - aren't really heavy enough. They...

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...