Do your players draw maps?

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

Dude, you're getting married on a hexgrid.

One of my players tells the story of a time he was playing in a Call of Cthulhu campaign, and the Keeper told the players that the floor of the room their characters had entered was tiled in octagons. One of the players said, "It's not possible to tile a floor in octagons," and the Keeper answered, "That's right! Roll for SAN loss."

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by whswhs

One of my players tells the story of a time he was playing in a Call of Cthulhu campaign, and the Keeper told the players that the floor of the room their characters had entered was tiled in octagons. One of the players said, "It's not possible to tile a floor in octagons," and the Keeper answered, "That's right! Roll for SAN loss."

Hm. I wonder if you can uniformly tile a hyperbolic surface with octagons.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Hm. I wonder if you can uniformly tile a hyperbolic surface with octagons.

I think you'd need a specific size of octogon for a specific hyperbolic curvature. But ultimately, yes.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

Among my group's war stories:

This uninhabited wasteland forest must be important -- it has a map.



Dude, you're getting married on a hexgrid.

I once had a player obsess about a potted plant I put on the map for some reason.

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I once had a player obsess about a potted plant I put on the map for some reason.

This is on a par with the parties that spend ages digging up dead ends in dungeons because they won't accept that there isn't a secret door there.
If don't put it there, your players complain they are fighting spherical cows in a perfect vacuum, if you do, they apply the rule of Chekov's Gun and assume that it has significance.

[Black Leviathan]

None of my players play cartographers so there's no real reason for them to be in charge of maps. They do request maps from time to time to get a good visual and they'll jot on a scrap paper to show me where they are or what they're setting up.