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<blockquote data-quote="Andvari" data-source="post: 9285867" data-attributes="member: 7036523">The player in my current group who knew how to map unfortunately moved far away. The other players seem unable to map, and I'm not sure how to teach them, having tried multiple approaches, each of them giving up in turn.For example, I'll describe one room something like this: &quot;To make it easier on yourself, each square should be 10 by 10 feet. You enter the room through a door in the west. From the entrance, the wall goes 10 feet north and 20 feet east. Here's a door in the east wall, after which the wall goes 10 feet further south, then 20 feet west, connecting by the entrance.&quot;They then proceed east into the next room, which I describe something like this: &quot;From the entrance, the wall goes 20 feet north, 20 feet east, 30 feet south. At the south wall is a door, after which the all goes 10 feet west, connecting to the entrance.&quot;The old mapper would correctly draw it like this:<img src="https://i.imgur.com/6hXJM5w.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="width: 216px" />But the new mappers draw it like this:<img src="https://i.imgur.com/cGsCbQX.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="width: 224px" />Suddenly there are hallways where none existed, the rooms are placed wrong in relation to each other, a third room has appeared out of nowhere, on top of another room, and the doors seem placed randomly.I'm kind of suspecting they are drawing it wrong on purpose to push the mapping duties to the remaining players, because how is this even possible?What would you do? I'm thinking of drawing each room myself on the whiteboard behind me so they can just copy it, as I have no idea how to unpack that thing, which now appears in my nightmares on a regular basis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andvari, post: 9285867, member: 7036523"] The player in my current group who knew how to map unfortunately moved far away. The other players seem unable to map, and I'm not sure how to teach them, having tried multiple approaches, each of them giving up in turn. For example, I'll describe one room something like this: "To make it easier on yourself, each square should be 10 by 10 feet. You enter the room through a door in the west. From the entrance, the wall goes 10 feet north and 20 feet east. Here's a door in the east wall, after which the wall goes 10 feet further south, then 20 feet west, connecting by the entrance." They then proceed east into the next room, which I describe something like this: "From the entrance, the wall goes 20 feet north, 20 feet east, 30 feet south. At the south wall is a door, after which the all goes 10 feet west, connecting to the entrance." The old mapper would correctly draw it like this: [IMG width="216px"]https://i.imgur.com/6hXJM5w.png[/IMG] But the new mappers draw it like this: [IMG width="224px"]https://i.imgur.com/cGsCbQX.png[/IMG] Suddenly there are hallways where none existed, the rooms are placed wrong in relation to each other, a third room has appeared out of nowhere, on top of another room, and the doors seem placed randomly. I'm kind of suspecting they are drawing it wrong on purpose to push the mapping duties to the remaining players, because how is this even possible? What would you do? I'm thinking of drawing each room myself on the whiteboard behind me so they can just copy it, as I have no idea how to unpack that thing, which now appears in my nightmares on a regular basis. [/QUOTE]

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