What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

Scott Christian · Tuesday at 12:58 PM

Simon The Hunter said:
These look very nice, I don't need mroe maps, but I know what you mean about paizo maps and the way they never seem to sit flat.

Agreed. Someone on these forums told me to take a damp cloth and iron them out. I have over a hundred of them and have not gotten around to it. But I need to try it. Right now, they are all unfolded, sitting under my couch. I am hoping laying unfolded with all the weight of each other on themselves flattens them out a bit.

To be fair, some of them are really good maps. I just think they lean too heavily on certain features. For me, I don't understand why the ability to use dry erase markers is so important on a map. I don't really care. There are a million things you can buy, from token rings to spell effect minis, to area casts, that allow you to not draw on your map.

GothmogIV · Tuesday at 1:10 PM

Over Lent, I refrained from buying anything for myself (my book habit is formidable). I realized that, first, I have tons of stuff already (not just TTRPG materials, but books I buy and think "I'll read this later!" then never do). Second, constantly buying new TTRPG materials is a bit of a hindrance to my own imaginative journeys: rather than making things up on my own, I am asking other people make things up for me.

So I'm using my 1983 Greyhawk boxed set, my Castles&Crusades rules, and the vast realms of my own creativity for the campaign I am running. It is deeply gratifying, and hearkens back to my youth when we had far fewer things to choose from with regard to gaming stuff.

Thomas Shey · Tuesday at 3:44 PM

Scott Christian said:
If I had one complaint, the maps are a bit small. If they did this again, I would definitely want maps built the same exact way, but bigger. But that is a small complaint. I now have 100 new maps that range from an arctic graveyard to a a wizard's townhouse.

Its a thing some mapmakers seem to be prone to. DramaScape used to make some really interesting maps (I'm not sure if they sold them in physical form and they may have stopped making them at all at this point; at least I haven't seen a new one from them in a while) but their early ones were tiny. I'm hard pressed to see a battle with the movement system in any game I'm familiar with not running off the edge quickly unless it just turned into a locked-in-place set piece.

Scott Christian · Tuesday at 3:55 PM

Thomas Shey said:
Its a thing some mapmakers seem to be prone to. DramaScape used to make some really interesting maps (I'm not sure if they sold them in physical form and they may have stopped making them at all at this point; at least I haven't seen a new one from them in a while) but their early ones were tiny. I'm hard pressed to see a battle with the movement system in any game I'm familiar with not running off the edge quickly unless it just turned into a locked-in-place set piece.

I looked at just buying a printer that could print battle sized maps. They run about $2,000. Of course, ink and time costs money too. But by this point, it probably would have been better for me to invest in one considering I make a lot of maps too and regularly send them off to be printed.

Simon The Hunter · Wednesday at 2:37 AM

Some more stuff for my ahem "Collection"...

Kichwas · Wednesday at 2:58 AM

Pistolheart vol 2 for Daggerheart

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/564429/pistolheart-volume-2

More subclasses, environments, gear, adversaries, and an investigations subsystem for 'western fantasy' using Daggerheart - from one of the writers of the Colossus of the the Drylands campaign frame from core Daggerheart.