Re: How big are maps...

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:11:20 +0000

>>The designs are very different, and hard to compare.  But a Dungeonworld
character can see hundreds of spaces at once.  An Olympia character can
only see one space at a time.  So, effectively, an Olympia location is
hundreds of times bigger than a Dungeonworld location, for game
purposes.<<

Vision really doesn't have anything to do with it.  A DungeonWorld character
can only see 7 squares in one direction, normally, but they only get
information about the ones they visit.  Seeing squares of a map is not the same
as visiting and exploring them.

Certainly, they can see a large area of squares, but thats just information. To
visit all the squares in a 14 x 14 grid would take dozens and dozens of turns,
and to fully explore them potentially much longer.  Especially given that one
square can have an unlimited amount of additional explorable information upon
it.

In space, most games essentially allow you to see thousands of miles on a turn,
but that doesn't make the maps 'bigger' or 'smaller'.  What scale you call a
square, and how many squares you can see, are just about information offered.

The discussion was based on pure, explorable, locations, thus far.  I've
already acknowledged theres a lot more *to* it than just explorable squares,
and that its difficult  to ascertain size from that, but based on explorable
locations my point was simply to illustrate how many there presently are.

Steve T.

References

Re: How big are maps...
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Tue, 14 May 2002 21:26:24 +0000