Burst/Blast Templates...

[Scribble]

So Someone in my group recently bought some burst/blast templates...

They're basically hollow squares made out of some sort of rigid plasticy material.

When I first saw them I kind of smirked and though ummm how hard is it to see a square on the battlemat?

But then that night involved a fight with a goblin Hexer... he has that power to create a burst 3 that lasts as long as he spends a minor action to keep it going... The blast 3 template was a great help to remind everyone the zone was in effect.

I also noticed that people would grab the template and more quickly determine exatly where they wanted to send en effect.

So all in all they were pretty cool/useful.

I have no idea who makes them, or how much he paid for them, but if you come across them, I'd reccomend not just dismissing them as pointless!

 

[Mark]

paizo.com - Store / Game Aids / Templates / Steel Sqwire

Can they be combined into a Blurst template?

 

[Sir Brennen]

paizo.com - Store / Game Aids / Templates / Steel Sqwire

Steel Squire is not yet making simple square templates for 4E like the OP is describing. Those are for 3.x area of effects.

 

[Scribble]

paizo.com - Store / Game Aids / Templates / Steel Sqwire

Can they be combined into a Blurst template?

Nah these are for fourth edition, and weren't metal. They were red, and sort of like a plastic, hollow squares with their size written on the edge.

Here they are (google is my friend!)

BLAST!

15 bux seems slightly pricey to me, but still they're nicely crafted, and they came in handy.

 

[Mark]

For squares, I think a cheap metal rod (coat hanger) and a pair of pliers would be easy enough to do. Most hardware stores would carry such things. Although, those prices for the plastic ones seem reasonable enough to me.

 

[Scribble]

For squares, I think a cheap metal rod (coat hanger) and a pair of pliers would be easy enough to do. Most hardware stores would carry such things. Although, those prices for the plastic ones seem reasonable enough to me.

Like many things in life it's a question of how much is your time worth..

If the choice is between buying these or making your own... Is 15 dollars worth the time it would take you to bend 5 coat hangers into appropriately sized metal squares.

This is a question only you can answer- And perhaps the owl from the Secret of Nihm.

He's smart.

 

[Mark]

Might want to pick up a small spray can of red paint, too, and make them easy to see.

 

[Rechan]

Like many things in life it's a question of how much is your time worth..

Not just time, but effort.

I know that I feel rather proud of the little things I've picked up or made for my game, or notions I've salvaged (sticky notes for difficult terrain or condition effects), versus straight products I've purchased. One of my players made a giant 4 foot by 3 foot board cut into square inches, and that is a prize right there.

(Although I am rather giddy about my aquarium stone minion minis, or the jenga blocks and giant dominos for encounter dressing).

 

[Mark]

One of my players made a giant 4 foot by 3 foot board cut into square inches, and that is a prize right there.

That's 1728 prizes, my friend!

 

[frankthedm]

Some templates made with some fractals i found on Google.

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