<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Xaeyruudh&#039;s Index]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Xaeyruudh]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/author/xaeyruudh/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Maps]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>This is one of several thoughts/suggestions regarding the upcoming fifth edition of Dungeons &amp; Dragons (5e).  Relevant news items: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/video-games/dungeons-dragons-remake-uses-players-input.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all" target="_blank">nytimes</a> and <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20120109" target="_blank">wizards</a>.</p>
<p>This is one of my pet peeves.  Hey… these are <strong>my</strong> suggestions, so you get to hear about <strong>my</strong> pet peeves.  Everybody else can tell you about theirs.</p>
<blockquote><p>Stop changing the maps.</p></blockquote>
<p>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&#8217;m not a cartographer, so I can&#8217;t tell you in technical terms what a huge screwup that is, but I can tell you as a gamer&#8230; and based on what I saw on the forums, I wasn&#8217;t alone in my reaction.</p>
<p>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&#8217;t like it.</p>
<p>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!</p>
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