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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 2011819" data-attributes="member: 264">Dungeon Stamps is (are?) an interesting product. The concept is pretty unique: use rubber stamps and an inkpad to speed up the drawing of terrain on an erasable battlemat. So far so good.There’s really no “RPG content” to review here, you either like the concept described above for it’s utility, or alternately you find the concept sounds like more trouble than just drawing terrain yourself with a pen. Either would be a reasonable assumption to arrive at based on your personal meeds, but for our purposes here, I will be breaking out my old chessex erasable hex map and just seeing how well the things actually work.I will be writing this review in real-time, as I attempt to use the product.So here we go (sets down the keyboard and peruses the package)Ok, the little box the stamps and accessories come in is quite nice. Pressed cardboard , with a small brass latch to hold it’s hinged lid shut. The “Hinge” itself is just more pressed cardboard, so I don’t think the box itself will be that useful as a permanent storage thing. Still, it’s a neat, sturdy little container and the product itself fits into it like a jigsaw puzzle.Included in the box is a little bottle of ink, and a stamp-pad. I worry that the ink is some kid of special “Dungeon Stamps Secret Formula”, and would be difficult to replace. I have no proof one way or the other mind you, as the label on the bottle doesn’t mention refills.OK, let’s fill up the stamp pad and see how that goes. (at this point our author drips the ink onto the pad)Ok, it’s filled up now, and after sitting for five minutes soaking, I think it’s ready to go.The selection of stamps here are…<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Table maybe? It looks like a table, in that it is an overhead view of a woodgrained rectangle. It prints onto the Chessex map well. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> What looks like an isometric view of a windowpane. I guess this gets stamped over the regular walls that you draw by hand. Or maybe the table is a wall, and you stamp it on either side of the window. It’s nicely done and stamps well. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Staircase! Ok, this one is definitely a staircase. It seems to have a bit of trouble holding enough ink compared to the other pieces in the set. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Torch Bracket…but it is not made in the same “overhead isometric” view that the other stamps use. This torch-bracket would actually appear to be attached to the floor. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Double Door. Nicely done perspective-wise and prints well on the mat. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Single Door. Ditto. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cargo (crates and barrels). Nice, and prints up well. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Tree. Well done, but tend to smudge more easily than the others due to the fine detail of the cut itself. Not really a criticism of the stamp, more a warning to myself to be more careful. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">…and two I am just lost on. One looks like maybe it’s a giant keyhole, or maybe a ladder descending into a hole in the ground, the other I have no clue…maybe it’s a pillar or something laying on its side (though the ends are open). I don’t know. Both print well.</li> </ul>Ok, that’s the extent of the practical test of the product, and I think it went well. The stamps seem to be well-made examples of rubber stamp technology and I like the presentation (the box I mentioned earlier).I like these things. The concept is a strong one, if the execution is a little iffy at times. 2/8 stamps being not immediately recognizable is a large percentage, but for a first “working the kinks out” effort it’s a good one.I probably won’t use them myself (I can draw well enough, quickly enough that I don’t think these have a lot of utility for me), I might use The Tree occasionally.I’m told there are more sets being released soon, and I think that a lot of folks will find them useful.</blockquote>

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