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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 4756897" data-attributes="member: 2629">#1: If you buy enough to have options, you have too many to easily organize. #2: They slide around on most tables unless you use felt, a shelf liner, or other material to prevent them from moving.#3: They tend to be too small to offer the movement freedom that the 4E rules suggest a DM utilize. Many of the tiles, especially older ones, clog up combat in 4E.#4: They are EXPENSIVE. The cost of 1 Chessex Battlemat + Appropriate Pens is cheaper than 4 sets of tiles. However, the Chessex Battlemat is much more versatile and durable - and few people will be completely satisfies with 4 sets of tiles. Heck, I know a guy that owns 24 sets (which cost him ~$200 - which is CHEAP for those products).I own 4 sets of tiles and kept them by my side when playing D&D for nearly a year before I realized they were not something I found useful.My advice to new DMs:* First thing to buy is a Chesses Battlemat and appropriate pens. You can have a lot of fun with only this to provide settings. * Second thing to buy is a pad of grid easle paper to make maps that will be reused a few times, such as the town near a dungeon, or a dungeon setting the PCs will need to come back to a few times.* If you have a setting that will be used a lot (such as the PC's favorite ship, a tavern in a bad part of town, the PC's stronghold, etc...) consider buying a high quality map for that special location. I also like buying a few wilderness maps of this quality, as you can start in different areas of the large wilderness maps and get different experiences.* For dungeon features/decorations, I think the following are all fine:-- Draw them.-- Buy a few cheap dungeon dressing items (Mage Knight Artifacts. some DDM, Doll Houe furniture, etc...)-- Make your own dressing tiles with a web broswer, Microsfot paint, a color printer and a little cardstcock from Staples.</blockquote>

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