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Message: <blockquote data-quote="machineelf" data-source="post: 7711799" data-attributes="member: 6774924">I think both of them are amazing artists. Have you seen Blando's book on cartography and adventure maps? It's pretty great.Having said that, I don't like the art style from either of them when it comes to D&D maps and dungeon layouts. I loved the old Deasel maps. Schleys' maps are beautiful to look at, but I use maps as tools to help my players easily understand the area. All the swirls that Schley puts everywhere distract from things and make it difficult for new people to quickly find a location.Diesel's maps were clean, simple, and useful, and I love them. If Mike got rid of all his swirls they would be many times better in my opinion.The old blue dungeon maps were also great. Again I use them as a tool to help me DM. If you make them too pretty and intricate, it makes them a bit more clunky to use as a tool. Those old maps were clean and simple and easy too understand. Again, just one person's opinion.</blockquote>