# Mapmaker's Margin
> Practical guidance for game masters using AI to prepare maps, handouts, memorable NPCs, session notes and virtual tabletop material.

## Entries
- [Prep Sheet: Building a Flooded Monastery With Six Rooms, One Map and Three Handouts](https://mapmaker-s-margin.pages.dev/flooded-monastery-ai-map-prep/): A flooded monastery works best as a compact, readable dungeon with six distinct spaces, one navigable map and three handouts that communicate information.
- [Session Recaps From Voice Recordings: What Transcription Preserves at a Noisy Table](https://mapmaker-s-margin.pages.dev/session-recaps-noisy-table-transcription/): Transcription can preserve much of a tabletop session's dialogue, names, decisions and event sequence, but noisy tables make speaker attribution and exact.
- [Rewriting Stat Blocks Without Breaking Challenge Balance: A Practical Spot-Check Method](https://mapmaker-s-margin.pages.dev/rewriting-stat-blocks-challenge-balance/): An AI-assisted stat block rewrite can change a creature's difficulty even when its hit points and challenge rating remain untouched.
- [A Table Policy for Asking Players Before Using AI-Generated Art](https://mapmaker-s-margin.pages.dev/table-policy-ai-generated-art/): Ask players about AI-generated art before introducing it into the campaign, and make the conversation specific to portraits, NPC illustrations, locations, and.
- [Keeping Generated Tavern Names Consistent Across Ten Sessions](https://mapmaker-s-margin.pages.dev/consistent-tavern-names-ten-sessions/): Generating tavern names is easy; keeping them recognizable across a long campaign requires a small naming reference and a reliable place to store approved.
- [Pacing a Game Read-Aloud: Lessons from Multi-Part Character Audio](https://mapmaker-s-margin.pages.dev/pacing-game-read-aloud-audio/): Multi-part character audio offers a useful model for pacing RPG read-alouds because it separates information into distinct moments, builds anticipation, and.

## About
- [About Mapmaker's Margin](https://mapmaker-s-margin.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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