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How do you use maps?

Started by Xuc Xac, August 06, 2015, 10:56:58 AM

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Phillip

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October 17, 2015, 11:40:28 PM
On an expedition in weird and perilous caves, when we're working our way through darkness with just a little nimbus of dim and flickering light beyond which are lurking horrible monsters, mapping like surveyors is not a top priority. A map that gets us back out is what counts.

The uncertainties of verbal description, like the vagaries of atmospheric cinema, convey a sense of the mysteries and confusions arising in that circumstance. Techniques employing careful maps tend not only to undermine that but to slow the pace of action and so distract more than contribute to the thrills.
And we are here as on a darkling plain  ~ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, ~ Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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