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<blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 5851235" data-attributes="member: 18017">I'm playing in a game run by Michael Mornard - RPG.net's &quot;Old Geezer&quot;, who was part of both Arneson and Gygax's original groups. We're exploring a dungeon I know on a meta-level to be the AD&amp;D DMG sample dungeon, but since wandering&nbsp; monsters are brutally frequent and (despite rumors to the contrary) I don't have AD&amp;D memorized, making a map so that we can describe where we go at each turning is vitally important. At one point we chased some goblins off the map and Michael just gave us very brief descriptions - &quot;you run through a room and down a hall, passing some doors and around a corner&quot;. Finding our way back to areas where we knew where we were was extremely tense and exciting.When I run games, I often use a wipe-erase board to speed up the process of describing complex areas but then erase it when the party has moved on. Smart parties will make their own map;&nbsp; <a href="http://muleabides.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/blackmoor-dungeons-what-mapping-is-good-for/" target="_blank">here's a report on a situation in which using the map thus created was also very nail-biting</a>.As a player I always look to make a map these days. I find that it is very immersive to be doing myself the thing I imagine my character to be doing as the mapper, and it helps make the environment real for me. I'm not very good at directions, so it's often good to have someone else mapping as well and compare notes afterward, but even so I find that it inspires better play because in the course of making the map I have thought more deeply about what is going on, how areas might connect, taken notes on the map about points of interest, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tav_Behemoth, post: 5851235, member: 18017"] I'm playing in a game run by Michael Mornard - RPG.net's "Old Geezer", who was part of both Arneson and Gygax's original groups. We're exploring a dungeon I know on a meta-level to be the AD&D DMG sample dungeon, but since wandering monsters are brutally frequent and (despite rumors to the contrary) I don't have AD&D memorized, making a map so that we can describe where we go at each turning is vitally important. At one point we chased some goblins off the map and Michael just gave us very brief descriptions - "you run through a room and down a hall, passing some doors and around a corner". Finding our way back to areas where we knew where we were was extremely tense and exciting. When I run games, I often use a wipe-erase board to speed up the process of describing complex areas but then erase it when the party has moved on. Smart parties will make their own map; [url=http://muleabides.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/blackmoor-dungeons-what-mapping-is-good-for/]here's a report on a situation in which using the map thus created was also very nail-biting[/url]. As a player I always look to make a map these days. I find that it is very immersive to be doing myself the thing I imagine my character to be doing as the mapper, and it helps make the environment real for me. I'm not very good at directions, so it's often good to have someone else mapping as well and compare notes afterward, but even so I find that it inspires better play because in the course of making the map I have thought more deeply about what is going on, how areas might connect, taken notes on the map about points of interest, etc. [/QUOTE]

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