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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7960460" data-attributes="member: 29398">For me it depends on why I'm looking at the map.If I'm looking at it purely for its aesthetic appeal then sure, make it a work of art.If I'm looking at it seeking accurate information quickly (the usual situation for a DM), I don't give a flip about anything other than whether it gives me that info in the most efficient manner possible.Which, by the way, the [USER=16077]@3catcircus[/USER] map does not.  What is where is clear enough but:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-  constantly having to refer to the little scale in the corner, rather than just have a grid underlying the whole thing, would be a nuisance.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-  it violates the general convention of having north be at the top</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">- as with so many maps, what the stairs are doing is anything but clear.  Do the little triangles point up or down? What's the vertical rise or elevation difference between floors?</li> </ul>Further to stairs, as a side note: I was checking out some free online modules last night and found an example of another mapping glitch: inconsistent elevation changes within a dungeon map.This map's stairs were very clear as to which way was up.  Part of the map consisted of more or less a loop; you'd enter at the bottom (A) and going either left or right would funnel you to a chokepoint hallway (B) later, after which it opened out again.Problem was, if you went right you'd reach B by a series of level halls and rooms and then going down a series of short flights of stairs (maybe 20 linear feet worth of stairs in total) while if you went left the passages and rooms were all shown as level thus the corresponding elevation loss wasn't accounted for.The distances involved were short enough that any sloping of the left path would have been rather obvious.Things like this drive me nuts! <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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