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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8852226" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>That's genuinely really interesting. Despite being pretty good at art (and particularly drawing stuff in front of me, esp. people), I definitely conjure the world in my mind very easily with words/mental images without needing that stuff, in fact I find detailed colour maps to be an actual problem/distraction (!!!).</p><p></p><p>I feel like if we really want to make people better at DMing and teach DMing better we're probably going to need someone academic to actually study this kind of thing! WotC's got the money to back studies like that, maybe they should think about it.</p><p></p><p>Because I suspect we're both decent DMs, but in very different ways, and when learning to DM, very different skills and so on would have benefited us.</p><p></p><p>I do remember that even when I was brand-new in 1989, I was already better at improvisational DMing than the more experienced DMs I was playing with (which is part of why I ended up as the "main" DM), which suggests maybe an element of talent rather than skill.</p><p></p><p>Now that guy make some maps I can get along with. Beautiful black and white and not overdetailed but also they do have real vibes to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8852226, member: 18"] That's genuinely really interesting. Despite being pretty good at art (and particularly drawing stuff in front of me, esp. people), I definitely conjure the world in my mind very easily with words/mental images without needing that stuff, in fact I find detailed colour maps to be an actual problem/distraction (!!!). I feel like if we really want to make people better at DMing and teach DMing better we're probably going to need someone academic to actually study this kind of thing! WotC's got the money to back studies like that, maybe they should think about it. Because I suspect we're both decent DMs, but in very different ways, and when learning to DM, very different skills and so on would have benefited us. I do remember that even when I was brand-new in 1989, I was already better at improvisational DMing than the more experienced DMs I was playing with (which is part of why I ended up as the "main" DM), which suggests maybe an element of talent rather than skill. Now that guy make some maps I can get along with. Beautiful black and white and not overdetailed but also they do have real vibes to them. [/QUOTE]
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