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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 5871363" data-attributes="member: 277">I dropped having a player be a mapper due how badly they listen/I describe a room. So I keep two copies or more of a map. My master version which had room numbers  and secret doors, traps etc. And another that just was blank copy with regular doors and any set scenery penciled in.A caller was player who decide if the group would go left or right but it was player making the decision not his pc. Depends on the group if you need one.Time. I defaulted to the regular 365 calendar, (stole the 20 year calendar out the yellow pages). A persons pc birthday was on his birthday because I did enforce aging/max age on the pcs. Had a pc dropped dead from a ghost once. The ghost aged him 1 mth over his max age.  In combat rounds  time is = 1 minute /6 seconds depending on which version. As to checking for secret doors/traps/etc I used whatever the dmg suggested time was. If the players were bs at the table in character I used real time. I would track this on post it note using hash marks as time ticked away. Came in handy sometimes as spell duration would run out during some combats.I would freeze/pause the game at the end of game session. So it does not matter if we pick up the game in two weeks or tomorrow night. It is 11:59 PM  April 1, Shaggy and Scooby are still just turning the knob on the secret door. Wandering monsters checks very with location and level of group. It does not have to be a monster. Could be a cold icy wind blowing down the corridor or a bird (roll a d8 ignoring 8. Oh a 7) pooping on Kesselzero hobbit. You may want to change the frequency in published adventures. Using published modules/adventures. If you have an established group I removed one third to one half of magic items. But is magic item is plot point don’t remove it.  The Judges Guild city state modules are great.  Just reading some of encounters invoke old school thinking. Is that a bum, a mad wizard or gawd in disguised going thru my trash can?Maps/dungeons you can find maps of actual castles or the Paris underground. Or use the dungeon generator in the DMG. You don’t have stock each room with a monster. Map sizes per hex. On my world map 1 hex = 20 or 24 miles. As I fleshed out parts I used a bigger hex grid with grid being between 1 or 5 miles. The biggest hex grid with grid being 1 inch across, those were either 1 mile, a half mile or a few yards depending on how detail I was going for.</blockquote>

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