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Message: <blockquote data-quote="weem" data-source="post: 4099375" data-attributes="member: 9470">First of all, I apologize for the lack of participation (my last post here as far as I can tell was December, 2002).So with that said and done, I have been out of the industry loop since around then when I was doing various cartography work here and there in a few PDF's, etc (even did some EN World logo stuff long long ago <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).I recently started playing D&D again (haven't played since 3E was quite new) but I had been playing a long time before that (started when I was 12, am 31 now).And that would take care of my pointless background info <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My question to you is this - how frequently do you, your group or groups you know take advantage of dungeon layouts (tiles), maps and things like that - for example, maps from Map-A-Week at Wizards, etc?I have been considering making maps again for general use (providing them for free, etc) since that was fun for me, but I'm curious about their popularity nowadays. To give you an example of things I did in the past, you can see some here...<a href="http://www.mikewiemholt.com/mikewiemholt-cartography.php" target="_blank">http://www.mikewiemholt.com/mikewiemholt-cartography.php</a>(These are from a while back - 2001-2003-ish)Anyway, like I said (in too many words already), I'm just curious if people are still using them, interested in them, etc. As a DM, I like to look at them (and create them), but in general do not use them in-game. I know there are some sites out there now doing similar stuff, but it's still fun for me and it would be nice to know if people would be interested in using them.If you use them in some fashion what do you like about them and what would you have changed/added to them? for example, would it help if they came with a description of the inhabitants/surrounding area in a general sense (so as to remain campaign setting neutral) or does that just get in the way?If you don't use them or think they are pointless for one reason or another is there anything that could be done to them to make them more appealing?That's about it - sorry for the length - I'm typing this out quickly at work and don't have a lot of time to trim it down to the point <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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