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<blockquote data-quote="Starmaster" data-source="post: 9473334" data-attributes="member: 7042521">The battlemats that I'm most familiar with are Published by Chessex.&nbsp; They've been selling them for decades.&nbsp; I remember seeing them at Gen Con in around 1981 or 1982 and they were too expensive for my budget, so I bought a substitute.&nbsp; There was a vendor at that Gen Con who sold battlemat-sized sheets of white paper that was laminated in clear plastic.&nbsp; They had a map with 1-inch squares on one side and a hex map on the reverse.&nbsp; They were only $5 each and I bought 2 of them.&nbsp; These mats used water-soluble markers to write on them, just as with the battlemats.&nbsp; These worked great and my group used them for years in place of the much more expensive battlemats.&nbsp; My friend and I also each bought one of the Dragonbone electronic dice rollers that are described in the review.&nbsp; They were very expensive for the time but we figured they'd be much more handy than fishing for dice all the time.&nbsp; His was black and mine was white.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I had to eventually ban them at the table because they did not appear to be generating numbers at random. They generated an unusually large number of d20 rolls in the 17-20 range.&nbsp; So, I sold mine at the Gen Con auction years later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starmaster, post: 9473334, member: 7042521"] The battlemats that I'm most familiar with are Published by Chessex. They've been selling them for decades. I remember seeing them at Gen Con in around 1981 or 1982 and they were too expensive for my budget, so I bought a substitute. There was a vendor at that Gen Con who sold battlemat-sized sheets of white paper that was laminated in clear plastic. They had a map with 1-inch squares on one side and a hex map on the reverse. They were only $5 each and I bought 2 of them. These mats used water-soluble markers to write on them, just as with the battlemats. These worked great and my group used them for years in place of the much more expensive battlemats. My friend and I also each bought one of the Dragonbone electronic dice rollers that are described in the review. They were very expensive for the time but we figured they'd be much more handy than fishing for dice all the time. His was black and mine was white. Unfortunately, I had to eventually ban them at the table because they did not appear to be generating numbers at random. They generated an unusually large number of d20 rolls in the 17-20 range. So, I sold mine at the Gen Con auction years later. [/QUOTE]

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