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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6288143" data-attributes="member: 4937">Defining dungeon as 'enclosed, with a map, and an encounter key', I'd say roughly 50%.Less than that would feel lazy.&nbsp; More than that would be desirable, but in an urban setting its just not possible to always put in the work to define a building concretely, especially if the chance that it will be used as a dungeon as small.&nbsp; If almost all the potential encounters are expected to be friendly, I typically don't produce a map or an encounter key.&nbsp; Nonetheless, it always bothers me when I don't because if a building doesn't have an explicit map, it's a railroad.&nbsp; If you don't have a map, you've implicitly given the players only one way to interact with the evironment and you've shut down free exploration as an option.&nbsp; By not having a map, I'm essentially deciding the correct way to enteract with the scenario.More than 60-70% would feel like I'm not using all the options available to me.&nbsp; Less than 30-40% tend to be, if they aren't wilderness sandboxes (with a different kind of map and encounter key), pure 'open world' games.&nbsp; I find that a bit too railroady for my taste.&nbsp; I'm really uncomfortable high improv games as a player as not only are they almost all railroads, but the DMs tend to not even be conscious of their role as railroad conductors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6288143, member: 4937"] Defining dungeon as 'enclosed, with a map, and an encounter key', I'd say roughly 50%. Less than that would feel lazy. More than that would be desirable, but in an urban setting its just not possible to always put in the work to define a building concretely, especially if the chance that it will be used as a dungeon as small. If almost all the potential encounters are expected to be friendly, I typically don't produce a map or an encounter key. Nonetheless, it always bothers me when I don't because if a building doesn't have an explicit map, it's a railroad. If you don't have a map, you've implicitly given the players only one way to interact with the evironment and you've shut down free exploration as an option. By not having a map, I'm essentially deciding the correct way to enteract with the scenario. More than 60-70% would feel like I'm not using all the options available to me. Less than 30-40% tend to be, if they aren't wilderness sandboxes (with a different kind of map and encounter key), pure 'open world' games. I find that a bit too railroady for my taste. I'm really uncomfortable high improv games as a player as not only are they almost all railroads, but the DMs tend to not even be conscious of their role as railroad conductors. [/QUOTE]

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