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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7960434" data-attributes="member: 29398">'Investigation' involves, among other things, making a decent map of the place and looking for oddities.Sorry, but whether something will fit on a particular map or surface simply isn't a consideration if-when I'm designing a dungeon.Not everyone uses battlemats.&nbsp; Some use graph paper*, some (like us) use gridded chalkboards, some use dungeon tiles or some other constructed representation, and some don't use anything.&nbsp; All of those are different in what they will 'fit' or contain, and thus designing to fit any particular one (other than TotM which can handle anything) is never going to please everyone anyway.* - which comes in different sizes. I once designed an adventure that barely fit on a gridded page; and when the players tried to map it the paper they used was 4 squares to the inch...and mine had been 5 to the inch.&nbsp; Their map went four squares off the page on each side, and much clear tape met its end. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7960434, member: 29398"] 'Investigation' involves, among other things, making a decent map of the place and looking for oddities. Sorry, but whether something will fit on a particular map or surface simply isn't a consideration if-when I'm designing a dungeon. Not everyone uses battlemats. Some use graph paper*, some (like us) use gridded chalkboards, some use dungeon tiles or some other constructed representation, and some don't use anything. All of those are different in what they will 'fit' or contain, and thus designing to fit any particular one (other than TotM which can handle anything) is never going to please everyone anyway. * - which comes in different sizes. I once designed an adventure that barely fit on a gridded page; and when the players tried to map it the paper they used was 4 squares to the inch...and mine had been 5 to the inch. Their map went four squares off the page on each side, and much clear tape met its end. :) [/QUOTE]

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