Choosing dungeon tiles: pdf or preprinted?

[CarlZog]

I've been debating over investing some tiles. I love the breadth of options in all the available pdf tiles, and on the surface the prices seem great.

But then I think about the cost of printer ink, mounting boards, mounting spray and time spent making 'em, and I wonder if I'm really just better off just buying pre-printed tiles, a la WotC.

Any thoughts or preferences? Why?

 

[Diamond Cross]

The thing is professional tiles are often built of stronger stuff than PDFs. And with PDFs you do have to spend money on other materials to make them strong enough to last with things like lamination and the like.

So I don't see it as any kind of trade off.

You basically just have to go with what you like the most.

 

[Tortoise]

It might be good to go wi a mix. Use the wotc style for most stuff and just print a few special ones from other sources as needed.

 

[jdrakeh]

Worth mentioning is that Longtooth Studios is running a patron project for their Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles - a pledge of $119 gets you 16 Battlegraph tiles and two carrying cases.

 

[Mark CMG]

People that use dungeon tiles of one sort or another would probably benefit from having at least one set of greyscale printable tiles since the expense of using a copy shop, for those without their own printer at home, for non-color pages is pretty cheap, especially if they don't mind if you bring your own cardstock.


You'll find a lot of excellent (freely distributed) work on tiles done by EN Worlder Kris at the site here -

crooked staff productions roleplaying aids

 

[frankthedm]

Worth mentioning is that Longtooth Studios is running a patron project for their Battlegraph Dry Erase Tiles - a pledge of $119 gets you 16 Battlegraph tiles and two carrying cases.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpg-in...ing-refund-battlegraph-boxed.html#post5303924