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I went through the blog’s contents for the last month and updated the Downloads and Maps pages. The Maps page in particular is getting a bit… out of hand. Readers – do you find the Maps page useful? And if so, should I just leave it alone, adding new maps to it as I add them to the blog (like I’m doing now)? Is this format becoming overwhelming? Should I break it into multiple sub-pages – Big Dungeons, Small Dungeons, Caves, Cities, Regional? What sub-pages should I break it into?
I like it all big and sprawling and unreasonable for grazing. But if you do subdivide, that’s cool too. I’m just glad it’s available.
I second what Andrew says.
I don’t often use the maps page, I typically copy&paste from the blog to Word and store on a flash drive for future use…
Maybe you could arrange the Maps page with all thumbnail images that lauch full-size images.
I very much appreciate the content!!!
I came back to D&D after 15+ years of no RPGing and I love the stuff you come up with.
Maybe put them in a worpress gallery? Subsections are too much, I like it all on the same Page.
I can never have too many geomorphs, but I look at the list of maps and my head swims. I don’t know where to start.
I’d love it if you wrote an article to address the question of “What should we do when we have more maps than we can ever play?”
I have to third that. Part of the fun is just meandering through to see what strikes your fancy on any given day. Don’t make another project for yourself, Dyson. You need to focus on getting out issues of Dodecahedron!
I love the maps. Subdividing them would make it easier for me, but not enough that I’m sure it would be worth the work for you.
IF you need to sub-divide I would understand but otherwise yes I use your maps if for nothing else, ideas for my scattered brain!
It would be nice to have “One Big Pdf Map Compendium” to download
Thumbnails and organization by type of map would be awesome. But, the fact that they are up here at all is fine and dandy with me. Keeping putting your inspiration up for us to marvel at.
I second the suggestion of pdf compilations for download. If you do so I recommend using the VERY useful Judges Guild model with publications like Villages, Treasure Maps, Islands, Castles, etc.
A collection of “Cities & Villages” and one of “Dungeons & Treasure Maps” would be very useful at the table for the DM.
Thanks again for your great work.
I like the idea of a map compendium, but all separated into categories would be fine with me too.
I love your maps; they’re nice to look at and I’ve spent some time just scrolling down the page to see what’s there. I’ve also downloaded several for my (hexcrawl-type) campaign.
It would help a lot as the collection grows to have the maps page supplied with a table of contents of sorts… I’d say it’d be fine to keep everything on one page, with maps of similar theme grouped together and a link, wiki-style, to the top of each section. It would probably also help to keep the bottom and middle of the page from falling into obscurity.
Since you asked, I’d suggest the categories Overland (e.g. “A Regional Map”), Settlements (“Granite Pass”), Structures (“Temple of the Heresy”), and Dungeons in some number of size categories. I don’t really make much distinction between natural caves and other kinds of dungeons — the two probably often blend, especially for the bigger dungeons — but dividing them into Large and Small or Mega-, Medium and Mini would be really helpful. (Perhaps The Cavern of Nuhdra-Varn would be the upper limit on number of rooms for a “mini” dungeon?) It might also be helpful to have another category for Complexes, e.g. Erdea Manor and other large sites that, unlike (say) the “Mapper’s Challenge,” are spread out over several maps.