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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7145149" data-attributes="member: 71699">Two of players in my campaign took Cartography. Everyone looks to them to produce maps. RAW renders their choice valueless by specifying that you do not make an ability check to map. RAW indicates that a map helps stay on track... *somehow*. Offering players a choice that has no value risks disappointment, and when all players strongly believe that cartography does something, it also risks dissonance.I like this. It is streamlined and satisfies a reasonable definition of the word &quot;helps&quot;. The effect is identical to another character helping the navigator so that a map simply frees up a character to do something else, like forage. One downside is that if all a map does is give advantage, then it doesn't connect well for me with the idea of a location that can be found only with the map. I'd like to fix that.I chose clarify rather than draw, because of the RAW that anyone can draw a map. I agree that pace could be one factor in setting the DC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7145149, member: 71699"] Two of players in my campaign took Cartography. Everyone looks to them to produce maps. RAW renders their choice valueless by specifying that you do not make an ability check to map. RAW indicates that a map helps stay on track... *somehow*. Offering players a choice that has no value risks disappointment, and when all players strongly believe that cartography does something, it also risks dissonance. I like this. It is streamlined and satisfies a reasonable definition of the word "helps". The effect is identical to another character helping the navigator so that a map simply frees up a character to do something else, like forage. One downside is that if all a map does is give advantage, then it doesn't connect well for me with the idea of a location that can be found only with the map. I'd like to fix that. I chose clarify rather than draw, because of the RAW that anyone can draw a map. I agree that pace could be one factor in setting the DC. [/QUOTE]

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