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<blockquote data-quote="Hejdun" data-source="post: 3694478" data-attributes="member: 839">In our game, a player maps as long as the rooms are relatively simple.&nbsp; I'm usually the player that maps because our DM and I have gotten into a good rhythm.&nbsp; We've come up with a sort of system that works out well for maps that conform to squares and has roughly normal shaped rooms.&nbsp; If there's an important room that's oddly shaped, he grabs my pencil and sketches it out himself on our graph paper.I think it's important for the players to have a clear visual representation of what they've explored before and what's been left unexplored.&nbsp; I don't notice that it takes too much time, since exploring is really part of the fun in DnD.&nbsp; I don't really map out rooms on the big map (that's for battlemats), but I'll label a room if it fits into an easily category (libraries, for instance, are easy to spot).The DM has to describe everything anyways, you mine as well sketch it out while he's doing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hejdun, post: 3694478, member: 839"] In our game, a player maps as long as the rooms are relatively simple. I'm usually the player that maps because our DM and I have gotten into a good rhythm. We've come up with a sort of system that works out well for maps that conform to squares and has roughly normal shaped rooms. If there's an important room that's oddly shaped, he grabs my pencil and sketches it out himself on our graph paper. I think it's important for the players to have a clear visual representation of what they've explored before and what's been left unexplored. I don't notice that it takes too much time, since exploring is really part of the fun in DnD. I don't really map out rooms on the big map (that's for battlemats), but I'll label a room if it fits into an easily category (libraries, for instance, are easy to spot). The DM has to describe everything anyways, you mine as well sketch it out while he's doing it. [/QUOTE]

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