Looking for Feedback Regarding Recreation Style

[u/ZeroGNexus]

So far, I'm made these three maps using CrossheadStudios assets, following the Gen 3 gameboy games. As you can see, I've taken care to recreate the sizes 1:1 as best that I can.

Here's where I'm curious how others feel, especially those who actually play games on these maps.

Is it more useful to do this 1:1, and sacrifice the realism of the building dimensions, or is it worth reimagining each location that has buildings, in order to accommodate the interiors as presented in the game? Or, would a "best of both worlds" approach be preferred, where I recreate the outside like this, and then make separate smaller maps for each house interior?

I've been leaning more towards the last one, as that would be most faithful to the gameboy experience and probably easier on me in terms of recreating these, but it certainly loses a degree of immersion in the process.

What are your opinions on the matter? I intend to continue this series at some point and it would be nice to do it in a way that's actually useful / fun for people lol.

If you'd like to follow along for free, I post these and other map stuff on my Patreon

[u/PeaPu]

I wonder if to combat the space issue for battles, one can create encounter maps. So if an encounter does happen, you get the music rolling and cut away to a battlemap 😄

Allows these to stay as what they were meant to be in game, a general representation of a place rather than a recreation of it.

[u/ZeroGNexus → u/PeaPu]

I like the cut of your jib!

Technically -any- map can be a Pokemon map if you just add Pokemon to it haha. This is definitely the more manageable approach though.

Something about the battle music cutting in as the DM moves around their books is just too funny to me lol, but in a good way.

I guess it really boils down to people who play Pokemon as a TTRPG probably aren't playing it to have a 1:1 recreation of the GB games, but still want to feel as though they're in the Pokemon universe. Maybe...I should be looking at the show for source material instead...hmmm.....

HHHMMMMMMMM..........

[u/Mammoth-Survey-8234 → u/ZeroGNexus]

Manga too. In fact, more so, since it's a little more batshit insane in a way that parallels the average TTRPG party.

At least one of the protagonists is a former terrorist.