@Ragnarok
Here's my issue with your theory about the map and the entire premise of your argument:
If I can move 60 feet per 6 seconds (1 round) and spend several rounds running from the intellect devourers on the beach to encounter the fishermen and the mind flayer and then run from there at 60 feet per 6 seconds to the dank crypt and trigger ALL the enemies in all three areas to attack me in a single combat, that means I literally went that distance. In minutes at most in the game, I can make it to Moonhaven if I just keep running there, and I can even trigger goblins attacking me in a single combat encounter, then that means it doesn't take hours or days of travel.
See. If they split the maps into smaller segments, then I'd agree with you. If I could run to a map exit that transitioned me from the grove to Moonhaven, we would not be having this conversation.
But they didn't do that. It's 1 fluid map location that you can literally travel through 1 foot at a time.
