Thanks

Thanks

What you say makes total sense. I'm glad you bring this up

Normally we cartographers get a draft from our commissioner and usually we have to follow it to the letter, thou sometimes we get some freedom to twist a little the elements. Fantasy writter or us fantasy mappers are rarely architects, so common architectural sense is usually not applied, like proper lighting, wall foundations, correct column placement, proper door swinging, etc, ect. Most of this is common sense, but believe me that few fantasy writers are thinking "A column needs to be here or else the roof would colapse; or, a window needs to be here or else the room would be dark and torch/candle lighting would suffocate the place", so that sometimes is left to us to add, since we are supposed to have a little more knowledge/awareness about it, but then again most of the time we are not able to modify the writer's map draft and we have to illustrate it verbatim... regardless of any architectural "errors" it may have. An important point, sometimes these "errors" are intentional, see below.

In this particular case, Run Amok games provides a real good map with a very few minor "errors" in it, and luckly they allowed me to twist it a little to "fix" it properly. These details were mostly proper window placement for "realistic" lighting and a little proper furniture locating (yeah, sometimes we also do the interior design thingy ). Changing the Music room shape would have been a major change which I didn't wanted to mess with. if you look close enough, there's a window inside the lone closet on the north wall of the upper floor and none in the corridor outside, the proper place for a window would be in the middle of the two doors, not inside the closet, BUT, there's a reason for that window inside the closet, something I can't discuss in here any further . So as you see, sometimes this "details" are purposefully, and it would be interesting if the writers actually described them in the adventure like in this case: "This closet was built later on to add a service area and the window lighting the small hall outside got trapped in it to the pleasure of the servants, for they now have a private space to hide themselves and smoke some of the spare "spices" left on the bar below", but honestly, very few gamers really care about them.

About that first floor stair, you are right about it looking a bit confusing about where it goes. I tried shading it as you suggest but it made it look more confusing 'cause it made it lool as it was going down, so I decided to leave it as is. Next time I'll try another trick on stairs, I hope you notice .

Thanks for the feedback and I hope you enjoy the adventure!

hehehe, Thanks thou far from a master