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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 4414291" data-attributes="member: 870">As a player or a DM, do you prefer "accurate" maps as play accessories, or do you like maps done up as if "in character" to someone/thing in the world, possibly complete with "Here There Be Dragons" unmarked lands?Do you like details picked out (ie, every ruin gets a name), or just hinted at (perhaps observant players notice a tower sticking out of a forest's canopy and wonder what it is)?Do you prefer maps with minimal text (numbered locations/symbols with a legend off to the side) or fanciful text denoting each mountain range, river, and fortress?As a player, do you ever look at the DM's maps and have your PC wonder... what's over there?Traditionally, I've always done the "accurate", overhead maps, measuring rough distances between communities for realism and more or less explicitly stated using a corner situated scale, with few surprises if any (mostly just a theme behind community names that no players have ever mentioned to me about catching).However, I've been experimenting with various "perspective" based maps that I'm getting a kick out of. Well, I guess they're less maps and more pictures, as if drawn by someone flying low over the country side, close enough to the action that I don't use symbols to mark communities, but far enough away that a good field of view is possible. Of course, I have yet to use them in game proper (I'm actually getting a break from DMing for a while and being a player, but taking advantage of the time to prep for my next game).Still, it's my hope that these maps might spark a bit more exploration in my players, wondering why there's a clearing over here, or what that ruined tower on the far side of the rice field was, etc.If I ever get my scanner working, I'd love to post some of them in the Cartography/Art Gallery forum.</blockquote>

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