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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 2011858" data-attributes="member: 1129">Green Dragon Studio has crafted a nifty toy in Dungeon Stamps. I picked up the limited edition pack on E-bay. Apparently some of the packs suffered some ink damage. Me being the semi-poor reviewer I am, bought a set.When it arrived, with prompt shipping I might add, I opened the package not knowing what to expect. It comes with ten hand crafted stamps including the following: Arrow Slit, Chair, Crates and Barrel (one stamp), Double Doors, Single Door, Stairs, Table, Torch, Tree, and Window. It also comes with the inkpad and the bottle of Dungeon Stamp Ink, which is a black color.I tested them on my double sided matt with no problem. Some of them like the torch and chair I just couldn’t figure out at first. The detail on these is lacking. Others, like the door, table, and tree, are great and easy to use.When I brought the stamp over to a friend’s house the other day, he expressed some interest in them and a ‘cool’ factor. I then learned one game problem with them. Because the stamps are hand crafted, it’s not always perfectly aligned to the grid. I also discovered a ‘meta’ problem with the stamps if you will. When the GM is drawing something out by hand on the matt, his likelihood of stopping to grab one of the stamps is greatly diminished. Now if he knows ahead of time what he’s doing, like setting up a bar scene and has the torch, chair, window, door, stair and table stamps ready, no problem. If he’s doing a dungeon, he’s not going to stop to pick up the door stamp and expertly place it. He didn’t use all of the stamps, mostly the door and double door, but in one room, he tried out the torch to represent numerous torches on the wall and he agreed. The torches need more work.In actual use, I found that I wish I had more inkpads and different colors of ink, green for the trees and brown for most of the other items. A dark brown ink would’ve probably been better than the black ink since many of the items are that color naturally. In terms of clean up, I had no problems. The GM who used them, uses a lot of different markets and often uses alcohol pads to clean up his matt. I report that they cleaned up with no problem. It was nice to see them clean up so well as this represented one less problem.Dungeon Stamps fall into the category of ‘neat’ idea and if the GM thinks ahead of time how he wants to use them, they can be worth the money. If you do everything off the cuff and draw out everything as you think of it, unless you make an effort to remember you have them, their use may be limited.</blockquote>

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