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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6177625" data-attributes="member: 42582">Correct! - I thought you might remember, because you seem to have a pretty good memory for actual play posts.I was meaning the size of the map, but that's also related to the importance in the story, at least in the sense that I wouldn't prepare a big map for something that wasn't going to have a fair bit of story heft.The biggest I can think of are the one I linked to (41 x 35 - I'm relying on memory there for the bit that's outside the bottom of the photo frame), though as you can see a lot of that rectangle would be solid stone, and the drow temple from P2, which I drew up on multiple sheets and was about 40 x 24. (Those are squares, not inches - I print my grids about 1.6 cm to a side.)I've also used the poster maps that come in the WotC modules and are 30 x 21.But not everything that is story big has to be map big. Sometime tight spaces can be dramatic (eg they make targeting of non-party-friendly AoEs more challenging, and make it harder for ranged PCs to keep out of the melee). I've drawn up (not yet used) a map for an encounter with Blibdoolpoolp (an aberrant primordial of water, revered by the kuo-toa) that fits on one of my 17 x 12 sheets.Probably from time to time, but if it's every session then I'd be surprised.To be honest what you're saying in these recent posts is making me quite happy with my paper sheet approach, because I don't have this big mat in the middle of the table exercising a dominance that's not warranted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6177625, member: 42582"] Correct! - I thought you might remember, because you seem to have a pretty good memory for actual play posts. I was meaning the size of the map, but that's also related to the importance in the story, at least in the sense that I wouldn't prepare a big map for something that wasn't going to have a fair bit of story heft. The biggest I can think of are the one I linked to (41 x 35 - I'm relying on memory there for the bit that's outside the bottom of the photo frame), though as you can see a lot of that rectangle would be solid stone, and the drow temple from P2, which I drew up on multiple sheets and was about 40 x 24. (Those are squares, not inches - I print my grids about 1.6 cm to a side.) I've also used the poster maps that come in the WotC modules and are 30 x 21. But not everything that is story big has to be map big. Sometime tight spaces can be dramatic (eg they make targeting of non-party-friendly AoEs more challenging, and make it harder for ranged PCs to keep out of the melee). I've drawn up (not yet used) a map for an encounter with Blibdoolpoolp (an aberrant primordial of water, revered by the kuo-toa) that fits on one of my 17 x 12 sheets. Probably from time to time, but if it's every session then [I]I'd[/I] be surprised. To be honest what you're saying in these recent posts is making me quite happy with my paper sheet approach, because I don't have this big mat in the middle of the table exercising a dominance that's not warranted. [/QUOTE]

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