Ah, but on Sunday a clever player IMC used a crease in the flip-mat to *prevent* an unstable gnoll mini from flipping over! She re-angled it so it leaned into the rising fold and remained upright!
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Ah, but on Sunday a clever player IMC used a crease in the flip-mat to *prevent* an unstable gnoll mini from flipping over! She re-angled it so it leaned into the rising fold and remained upright!
weem
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I use a Chessex mat like many others, but I also use cardboard from time to time. My mother-in-law bought a 60-something inch LCD TV so I stole the box from her, drew a grid on the back/inside, and have been cutting out pieces for various uses here and there.
Here I used DVD's to help set elevations - kinda ghetto, but the players loved it...
...oh, and LED candles make great fires, though you might, during the course of a combat, forget they are LED's and find yourself reaching around them to prevent being burned...
...what? they flicker!
Here I used DVD's to help set elevations - kinda ghetto, but the players loved it...
...oh, and LED candles make great fires, though you might, during the course of a combat, forget they are LED's and find yourself reaching around them to prevent being burned...
...what? they flicker!
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I would also like to recommend Fat Dragon Games as a good alternative, whether you wanted to stay 2d, go 3d, or somewhere in between.
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I try lots of new stuff, but nothing really beats the good old wet-erase battlemat for durability and versatility.
buddhafrog
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I use primarily battle maps mixed with lots of printed out e-adventure and other .pdf maps/buildings/rooms. But I also often use these in combination with the *highly recommended* Starship Troopers Floorplans. These floorplans come with four reversible battle maps of general terrain (8 total maps). They are supposed to represent various planets, but make for perfect terrain of snow mountains, deserts, thick jungle, lava fields, plains, beach, caves, and swamps. They're cheap too - I got mine for $6.99.
I would never use these types of battle maps unless I could keep them flat and write on them (I hate the folded creases). I buy a 1 meter sheet of very thin acrylic (local craft supply store) and place it over the maps -- keeps them flat, enables me to write on it, and actually provides a slight static cling so things don't move around much.
I then, at times, will throw some dungeon tiles on top of, or other printed maps under the acrylic sheet. Works great.
So, when I use these maps, particularly the Starship Trooper Floorplans under the acrylic sheet, it's essentially like using a chessex map but with some terrain feel to give the players a feel for the environment.
** I have yet found a method that I'm happy with to cover up part of a fully printed battle map. I know you can put sheets over the unseen parts... but I don't know....
I would never use these types of battle maps unless I could keep them flat and write on them (I hate the folded creases). I buy a 1 meter sheet of very thin acrylic (local craft supply store) and place it over the maps -- keeps them flat, enables me to write on it, and actually provides a slight static cling so things don't move around much.
I then, at times, will throw some dungeon tiles on top of, or other printed maps under the acrylic sheet. Works great.
So, when I use these maps, particularly the Starship Trooper Floorplans under the acrylic sheet, it's essentially like using a chessex map but with some terrain feel to give the players a feel for the environment.
** I have yet found a method that I'm happy with to cover up part of a fully printed battle map. I know you can put sheets over the unseen parts... but I don't know....
Infiniti2000
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I think you're referring to the people at Carnegie Mellon.
We use Tact-Tiles, but I'm really digging weem's suggestion!
weem
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Yes! Millennium was great. Watched it when it was on TV - had to get the DVD's
Hard to beat FREE!
Drawing the grid took a little while, and I did buy a yard stick to help with that, but once you have that it's really easy to cut out exactly what you want when needed.
While we're on the subject of free stuff, I did a post a while back about using paint swatches from places like Home Depot to grid up and use for conditions. Basically going from this...
...to this...
So many colors to choose from
I use a Chessex mat like many others, but I also use cardboard from time to time. My mother-in-law bought a 60-something inch LCD TV so I stole the box from her, drew a grid on the back/inside, and have been cutting out pieces for various uses here and there.
Here I used DVD's to help set elevations - kinda ghetto, but the players loved it...
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...oh, and LED candles make great fires, though you might, during the course of a combat, forget they are LED's and find yourself reaching around them to prevent being burned...
...what? they flicker!
Oh that's so awesome! I want to do that.
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