: which mapmaker is your favorite?
I'd still like to see this done as a formal poll. I've been giving this some thought, and I think that I would have to choose Randall Shaw, aka Frigidman, as the best overall. He is responsible for a number of inovations in 3rd party map design, but I don't think that anyone before or since has been able to seamlessly create such complete changes in map layout by simply flipping a switch. Remember Siege of Nor’Korh, when you discovered that you couldn't go back the way you came - in fact, there was no trace of the way you came? Remember the brilliant 5D effect in the Evil level Schmackle? Even if I can't quite forgive him for putting that dummy terminal in, it was brilliant. There are a lot of great mapmakers out there, but Frigidman showed a generation of mapmakers how it could be done, and many of his maps have never been equalled.
