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#1 LadyNeferRa May 17, 2009 0:38:21	I don't play as much as I'd like, but somewhere along the line I've become the mapmaker of the adventure. I'm mostly designing maps for my DM's other players adventures, but nothing complex like the hex or square maps of yore. Our DM does mostly homemade adventures (is that a "homebrew"?) but everyone in the group always seemed to play easier if we just have a general landscape layout, then a detailed one of the cave, palace, crypt or gnoll stronghold that is the mission focus. I've found that mapmaking is really fun for me, and I just wonder if anyone else here does this or not.
#2 dirtyfrank May 17, 2009 1:04:41	Do you use a map making program or some such, or do you doodle your own maps? And yes, homemade adventures are usually called homebrew.
#3 Reg06 May 17, 2009 7:24:46	I dabble, but these guys don't mess around.
#4 LadyNeferRa May 17, 2009 16:11:03	Do you use a map making program or some such, or do you doodle your own maps? Doodle all the way. The DM tells me enough of the layout (usually a town) then I do a couple of specifics for the action.
#5 LadyNeferRa May 17, 2009 16:15:04	I dabble, but these guys don't mess around. Thank you for the link Reg.
#6 dirtyfrank May 17, 2009 16:15:20	Cool. I don't doodle too much of my maps out ahead of time. I think I'm too lazy. I did doodle the KotS maps out (the ones that were not provided in the adventure) and it was kind of interesting as far as making and using them. I do doddle world maps for my campaign setting. I however haven't done any of those in a while. It's because of laziness so I'm going to blame it on school. Damn you college! *shakes fist*
#7 Mad_Jack May 17, 2009 20:17:38	When I was younger and had huge amounts of spare time, I used to do tons of maps, even for things that had nothing to do with any game. I had a group of teenaged mutants that lived in an abandoned warehouse, and taped together about 25 sheets of graph paper to draw up an entire floor plan for all three levels of the building - it was about 4 feet by three feet by the time I finished it. Back in 1st/2nd I had a 14th level druid who had his own castle with a dryad in the garden. I mapped out the whole damn thing down to the last window. I've mapped out whole worlds for no other reason than just to create them.
#8 LadyNeferRa May 18, 2009 10:23:51	I've mapped out whole worlds for no other reason than just to create them. EXACTLY!! Your dryad garden sounds sounds like a cool idea Mad Jack. Castles & huge buildings are so much fun to map out. I love finding a spot to put the wizard's gizmos or labs. When I did my first major city just for the heck of it I thought I made the demi-human quarter too large. Now I look back on it and say it's MY city - no such thing as "too large". I play in an Egyptian style campaign, one of the first villages I settled in is still my favorite map. For a little place I think I made it very stylish yet functional.
#9 terronus May 18, 2009 13:22:57	Not the party mapmaker, but whenever I'm one of the players, I'm usually the party "scribe" recording important names, places, and historical stuff (not to mention the loot we pick up). I really enjoy that player role, as well, because writing stuff down helps as a mnemonic device for me, letting me roleplay more fluidly. Kinda like having a map laid out so you get a more in-depth feel for the environment.
#10 calronmoonflower May 28, 2009 1:59:53	deleted
#11 spellwyrm May 28, 2009 2:07:11	I frequently build maps for no other reason then I can, then I do not folly myself into believing their topnotch or anything special. Several sheets of graph paper, some pencils, erasers and a bit of imagination. No colour, though I do shade now and then. Nothing extravagant, just enough to get the basic point across.
#12 E._Ravenwood May 28, 2009 2:23:53	I love making maps for campaigns. But as a cartographer, I like making maps for anything. I've actually been paid to make maps for other's campaigns at my local gaming store.