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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8936079" data-attributes="member: 29398">I agree with you up to here.&nbsp; The whole point of map and key play is investigation and exploration of the pre-set map*, which as you say can then be changed through both short-term and long-term nteraction.&nbsp; All is good.* - here I use 'map' to indicate the whole setting including its people, history, cosmology etc. as well as simple geography.But then you say this, which IMO isn't true at all.&nbsp; The primary process of revealing the map is investigation and exploration, either directly (e.g. looking around the next corner or over the next hill) or - far more often - indirectly (gathering information through asking questions and getting answers, if those answers aren't already provided in the setting write-up).Unless things are intentionally supposed to be confusing, if the players/PCs find themselves reduced to simple guesswork that means either something's gone wrong with their info-gathering process or they just haven't been using it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8936079, member: 29398"] I agree with you up to here. The whole point of map and key play is investigation and exploration of the pre-set map*, which as you say can then be changed through both short-term and long-term nteraction. All is good. * - here I use 'map' to indicate the whole setting including its people, history, cosmology etc. as well as simple geography. But then you say this, which IMO isn't true at all. The primary process of revealing the map is investigation and exploration, either directly (e.g. looking around the next corner or over the next hill) or - far more often - indirectly (gathering information through asking questions and getting answers, if those answers aren't already provided in the setting write-up). Unless things are intentionally supposed to be confusing, if the players/PCs find themselves reduced to simple guesswork that means either something's gone wrong with their info-gathering process or they just haven't been using it. [/QUOTE]

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