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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 2728877" data-attributes="member: 771">My editing pet peeve is when descriptions in the text don't match the maps.  A recent example that suffered from some map/text disconnect was "Murder in Oakbridge" in the last issue of Dungeon.  It was clear that after they had Rob Lazretti redraw the neighborhood, the various locations were all assigned spots on the map by someone who wasn't even looking at the text.  For example, if I remember correctly, a few locations are described in the text as free-standing buildings, or having courtyards, or whatever, but on the map, each appears to be part of one Sharn's giant towers.A related problem is giving the wrong directions.  Mixing up east and west is very common, and in the 2e days, it seemed like there was about a 50% chance it would be wrong.  Things are better now, but there are still problems.  This seems to happen especially frequently when maps are not oriented with North at the top, which is always a mistake in my opinion.  Dungeon seems to be doing this with increasing frequency lately.Despite the fact that I cite Dungeon in both halfs of the complaint, I don't mean to single them out.  In fact, I think that overall they do an excellent job.  If anything, the reason I'm catching more mistakes there is because that's where I'm doing most of my adventure reading these days.</blockquote>