Should Dungeon World adventures have maps?

15 thoughts on “Should Dungeon World adventures have maps?”

1. Draw maps

   Leave blanks

2. Tim Franzke – can this kind of content be a good substitute for a drawn map? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/641218/Idontusemaps.jpg – if not, why?

3. Yes

4. I’d go with “sure, if the author or GM think its cool & helps.” Maps can communicate a lot of things very quickly & little details can inspire, but they’re certainly not necessary all the time.

5. The answer is: whatever works for you and your group.

6. A set of dungeon tiles, that players or the GM use to build the environment in play, might be better than a pre-drawn map.

7. I think so. like Tim said, just leave blanks

8. Sometimes!

9. For a while, our world map was names and simple drawings on index cards. Then we upgraded to a voroni map with some regions, roads, coastline. For dungeons, I like to map it out for myself beforehand, as this helps me keep my bearings and describe what they see so they can draw their own map as they explore. I feel all of this fits into the “draw maps, leave blanks” guidance.

10. They need to have areas and connections between. Actual maps – optional. 

11. “Draw maps, leave blanks” seems to be the mantra.

12. Mark Tygart It’s GM Principle #1 in the book.

13. Benjamin Kramer And the Tavern agrees.

14. So no Draw blanks, use maps?

15. Rasmus wernersen Indeed

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