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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8935898" data-attributes="member: 42582">A map is a type of visual diagram, typically as if from an aerial view, used to represent architecture, geography, topography etc. If you have a smartphone, it probably has a map app that will give you some examples of a map.I think the word &quot;key&quot; is one I picked up from either Gygax or Moldvay. I've just looked in my DMG, and see on p 96 Gygax saying:Before you [the GM] are three maps: a large-scale map which shows the village and surrounding territory . . . a small-scale (1 square to 10' might be in order) map of the ruined monastery . . . and a numbered key for description and encounters; lastly you have the small scale map of the storage chambers and crypts beneath the upper works of the place . . . likewise keyed by numbers for descriptions and encounters.So my recollection seems to be correct.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8935898, member: 42582"] A map is a type of visual diagram, typically as if from an aerial view, used to represent architecture, geography, topography etc. If you have a smartphone, it probably has a map app that will give you some examples of a map. I think the word "key" is one I picked up from either Gygax or Moldvay. I've just looked in my DMG, and see on p 96 Gygax saying: [indent]Before you [the GM] are three maps: a large-scale map which shows the village and surrounding territory . . . a small-scale (1 square to 10' might be in order) map of the ruined monastery . . . and a numbered key for description and encounters; lastly you have the small scale map of the storage chambers and crypts beneath the upper works of the place . . . likewise keyed by numbers for descriptions and encounters.[/indent] So my recollection seems to be correct. [/QUOTE]

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