Maps

This is one of several thoughts/suggestions regarding the upcoming fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons (5e). Relevant news items: nytimes and wizards.

This is one of my pet peeves. Hey… these are my suggestions, so you get to hear about my pet peeves. Everybody else can tell you about theirs.

Stop changing the maps.

I’m looking at you, people-who-did-the-3e-FR-map. Expand and improve, but don’t move things around just so it will fit better on the page. I’m not a cartographer, so I can’t tell you in technical terms what a huge screwup that is, but I can tell you as a gamer… and based on what I saw on the forums, I wasn’t alone in my reaction.

You pissed me off, by giving me a map which is superficially appealing but which forces me to decide which version of the Realms I want to play in and renders either the earlier or later maps completely useless. This was compounded by 4e, when you changed the map again. I sense a pattern developing, and I don’t like it.

If you released updates of the 1e/2e maps with each new edition, the ship of my objection would lose a lot of the wind in its sails. However, you did not, which means avast, ye scurvy knave! Walk the plank!

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