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When do you consider a scene important enough to warrant a battlemap? [closed]
I was thinking about the act of looking for battlemaps, and was wondering when, in pre-planning, did you ever decide that a scene was important enough for a battlemap?
Example 1: A room where you ...
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Setting up a Dungeon Map
So I don't know if anyone on here has used the 4E Keep on the Shadowfell but when you get to interlude 2 the PCs enter the dungeon, but the map is huge. When we play, I have the characters move over ...
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How do I balance detailed encounter maps with not wanting to give away my dungeon layout?
I'm in the process of designing a Megadungeon, and it seems like people run large dungeons like this using the theater of the mind to avoid giving the layout away and allow players to explore, get ...
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How best to progressively reveal the layout of a location to players?
I have been gamemastering tabletop RPGs for years now, but I'm still wondering what is the best way to deal with this.
Specifically: how to graphically describe to your players their surroundings ...
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How do you transition from 1-page dungeon map to battle mat?
I have a bunch of different ways I use to make maps for my tabletop game. Sometimes I draw one on graph paper. Sometimes I use Dungeonographer. Sometimes I copy a map from a published adventure or ...
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