A whole lot of you have asked how I actually use maps at the table how I keep that sense of exploration and discovery of everything’s already drawn out essentially how to do fog of war and I’ve got three tricks I’m gonna show you first up is the classic method just Cover your map with paper and reveal it as the characters explore the key is to make your paper overlay not match with your dungeon structure that way your players can’t metagame the layout of the dungeon just by looking at the coverings the problem is if you have A dungeon Beyond just a few rooms it takes a big map to draw it out for combat so the second tip is to use exploration scale Maps instead of a five foot grid you can have each Square be 10 15 or even 30 feet each I’ll use a Single token to represent the party as they explore then bust out another map for combats and switch to our regular minis third trick is to partition your map drawing do some ahead of time and some at the table for instance you could draw the outline of a building but none Of the room contents until a character walks in or for a cavern system you could draw out some of the famous rooms and the shrine you’re looking for but none of the connecting tunnels Video Information
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