My 4e group has expressed interest in running through Tomb Of Horrors. As a prep for that, we're running through C1.
As always, the topic of how to handle mapping came up when we started talking about AD&D. After a bit of thinking, I offered to take on the role. I'm the usual 4e DM, and we had moved to a projector and maptools. So I have fairly decent maptools skills.
With the DMs blessing, and a bit of effort, I would draw the map using maptools and it would get projected on the wall. Throw in a couple laser pointers and everyone was happy. The players had a decent map to see. The DM could easily point out things I drew wrong, and I even started dropping props like levers and trapdoors on the map. It really worked amazingly well.
And yes, I set the map background to blue and drew in white, just like the inside of the module cover.
As always, the topic of how to handle mapping came up when we started talking about AD&D. After a bit of thinking, I offered to take on the role. I'm the usual 4e DM, and we had moved to a projector and maptools. So I have fairly decent maptools skills.
With the DMs blessing, and a bit of effort, I would draw the map using maptools and it would get projected on the wall. Throw in a couple laser pointers and everyone was happy. The players had a decent map to see. The DM could easily point out things I drew wrong, and I even started dropping props like levers and trapdoors on the map. It really worked amazingly well.
And yes, I set the map background to blue and drew in white, just like the inside of the module cover.
