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<blockquote data-quote="JDragon" data-source="post: 4707597" data-attributes="member: 780"><p>Well here is what I can tell you as a former vinyl mat user and full fledged Tac-Tile convert for over 6+ years. Which based on the website this product is very similar to.</p><p></p><p>I used vinyl mats for years playing both 2nd and 3rd ed D&D as well as other RPG's and was very happy with them, till I used my first set of Tac-Tiles. After the first night I used them running RttToEE I never looked back and quickly ordered a second set to put me at 24 tiles of goodness. I actually only used my vinyl mats once since getting my tiles, and that was for a Con game I was running where they allowed me to have another of my maps pre-drawn.</p><p></p><p>For me their are 2 big reasons I prefer Tac-Tiles over matts...</p><p></p><p>#1 adjustability - with a vinyl mat the size is static and never changes, how ever your dungeons and your table sizes can change regularly. With the tiles I don't worry about how big my map is going to be or how small of a table we are going to have access to, they will always adjust. I just pull out the # of tiles that I have room to put out and go to work. If we move to another part of the building / dungeon I pull the ones for the area we left and put fresh ones down and keep drawing. This way if the party goes back I just grab the tiles from before and drop them back on the table.</p><p></p><p>#2 - much cleaner - when we used vinyl mats I would always leave the game with color all over my hands from having accidently put them on some part of the map. With the Tac-Tiles using dry-erase this is drasticly reduced.</p><p></p><p>At this point the only thing I have that is better than my tac-tiles is my projector set up that projects the map on our table, but that only works when I'm playing at home and have maps ready, so the tac-tiles are always on standby.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps.</p><p></p><p>JD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JDragon, post: 4707597, member: 780"] Well here is what I can tell you as a former vinyl mat user and full fledged Tac-Tile convert for over 6+ years. Which based on the website this product is very similar to. I used vinyl mats for years playing both 2nd and 3rd ed D&D as well as other RPG's and was very happy with them, till I used my first set of Tac-Tiles. After the first night I used them running RttToEE I never looked back and quickly ordered a second set to put me at 24 tiles of goodness. I actually only used my vinyl mats once since getting my tiles, and that was for a Con game I was running where they allowed me to have another of my maps pre-drawn. For me their are 2 big reasons I prefer Tac-Tiles over matts... #1 adjustability - with a vinyl mat the size is static and never changes, how ever your dungeons and your table sizes can change regularly. With the tiles I don't worry about how big my map is going to be or how small of a table we are going to have access to, they will always adjust. I just pull out the # of tiles that I have room to put out and go to work. If we move to another part of the building / dungeon I pull the ones for the area we left and put fresh ones down and keep drawing. This way if the party goes back I just grab the tiles from before and drop them back on the table. #2 - much cleaner - when we used vinyl mats I would always leave the game with color all over my hands from having accidently put them on some part of the map. With the Tac-Tiles using dry-erase this is drasticly reduced. At this point the only thing I have that is better than my tac-tiles is my projector set up that projects the map on our table, but that only works when I'm playing at home and have maps ready, so the tac-tiles are always on standby. Hope this helps. JD [/QUOTE]
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