Dungeon Tiles DT1

[Gundark]

Set one IMHO is the best. I have 2 sets and they work well as they are a generic set.


I am hoping they come out with round or non-square rooms.

Oh and BTW Keep on the shadowfell can be build with tiles from set one...with a few from set 7(I think) thrown in

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

So I should consider selling mine for profit? I have the first 4-5 sets still in the plastic.

 

[A. Malkov]

I'd recommend you get a map before you get tiles. Steel Sqwire has some great ones called flip-mats which are cheap, rugged, and eminently portable (they fold flat, compared to more traditional vinyl mats which must be rolled up). Oh, and did I mention they're cheap?

Thanks for that! Fortunately, i have found a place where i can buy this flip-mats.

Oh and BTW Keep on the shadowfell can be build with tiles from set one...with a few from set 7(I think) thrown in

Set one is the expensive one, isn´t it? well, after the flip-mat i will search for this.

Thanks!

 

[No Name]

I found a DT1 on the shelf in a small FLGS in the middle of nowhere last weekend. I had to get it (because of reading this thread).



And welcome to the board, Malkov!

 

[Klaus]

The 1st set of Dungeon Tiles is long OOP and somewhat expensive (not at a ridiculous level, but still many times more expensive than a new set of Dungeon Tiles).

So my question is... how useful is this set?

Assuming I have all the other sets (which I don't at this point, but I can get all of them for the standard price still)... does DT1 add something more or less important to the mix?


Is there a place where you can see the full content of all the sets?

Bye
Thanee

Would you consider a Tile product from another company that was compatible with DT1, even if the cardstock were a "little" bit thinner?

 

[Henry]

Would you consider a Tile product from another company that was compatible with DT1, even if the cardstock were a "little" bit thinner?

In my opinion, Claudio (I have a feeling I know what's evolving in your brain ) , the tiles' worth comes from three things:

1) Their quality - they are very durable (though I haven't yet used them a long time, they appear like they'd last quite a while)

2) The generic nature - one of the problems I have with Paizo's Gamemastery tiles is their really thin quality, but the fact that it's hard if not impossible to use sets together, or even cards from the same set, and their battlefields are only about 8 by 8 squares when joined together.

3) The ability to overlay tiles, and have very little discontinuity (for lack of a good word) in their edges. If I don't want that lake on DT4's big panels, I can take a smaller 4 x 4 panel of plain grass, or a hill, lay it over it, and it doesn't look like the lake is there at all! No blue edges, the grass color blending is either the same or almost the same, etc.

Those appear to be the three greatest things about it. I bought some Paizo tiles a year ago, and I have never used them - they're too small, too specific, and LOOK like they have borders around their edges, whether those borders are trees, brush, starkly colored compared to tiles in the same set, what have you.

 

[Jack the Red]

Thanks for that! Fortunately, i have found a place where i can buy this flip-mats.

Posso aproveitar que voce e de SP e perguntar qual lugar?

Sorry for the post in portuguese, I don't know if it's allowed, but sounds silly ask him in English.

The tiles add a lot to the game? I've been using a blank mat and dices, with paper to mark objects, sometimes it gets ugly, so I'm considering it...

 

[Tao]

Posso aproveitar que voce e de SP e perguntar aonde?

Sorry for the post in portuguese, I don't know if it's allowed, but sounds silly ask him in English.

On a side note, the tiles add a lot to the game? I've been using a blank mat and dices, with paper to mark objects, sometimes it gets ugly, so I'm considering it...

Tiles and minis are a definite investment: not only of money but also in storage space and preparation time. Some people, such as myself, really enjoy the element that they add to the game. For others its not a big deal.

 

[CastTiltowait]

The tiles add a lot to the game? I've been using a blank mat and dices, with paper to mark objects, sometimes it gets ugly, so I'm considering it...

I started DM'ing the Red Hand of Doom after seeing some pics of other people's Stone Gorge Bridge models and got inspired to try going 3D instead of just using a battlemat. I had a few dungeon tiles (from the Basic Set) but thought they were kind of limited in flexibility. After some research, I stumbled across WorldWorks Games. They sell sets of .pdf's for printing out your own terrain. They have something like the Dungeon tiles called DungeonLinx 2.5D which allows you to print out onto cardstock (a heavy kind of paper) all sorts of dungeon tiles. If you want to give them more heft, you can glue them down to foamcore, matboard or even the cardboard they use for cereal boxes. You spend $17 and you can print out as many copies as you'd like.
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If you want to spend a little more time and effort, they've got sets where you can print out indoor and outoor terrain that after you cut it out, you can fold it up and glue it to make fully 3D terrain, ranging from castles, to sewers, to forests (with trees that support minis for that PC who always wants to snipe from a branch), to corrupted cathedrals and even the pits of Hades.
Here's a pic of the castle set,(and a link to a gallery by a user who's made all sorts of castles from one $17 purchase, and he can reuse many of the elements to make them) plus something that shows all the pieces you can choose to make in as many copies as you'd like. You can also, if you have any talent with image software, change/adapt the files if you'd like.
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A corrupted church...
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The outdoor terrain...
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Unlike the dungeon tiles, everything's made in a very modular fashion, so you can easily use and reuse terrain elements to make all sorts of encounters. In my RHoD game, I used some of the buildings I made for Vraath Keep as buildings for a goblin raid on a town to shops to parts of the Rhest Town Hall. These pics show a couple of my builds which shows how someone with little talent can actually make something that looks decent, even if I was skimping by gluing bases to cardboard from amazon packing boxes and made the mistake of printing on two different printers (that's why one of the walls is a different color from the others.
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My Vraath keep

Rhest Town Hall

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The company's a small company, but they really focus on high quality stuff. If you're willing to spend $$ on buying multiple copies of dungeon tiles, you might want to take a look at some of their stuff and see if it would serve your purposes better.

 

[A. Malkov]

Posso aproveitar que voce e de SP e perguntar qual lugar?

I live in Sao Paulo, but i'm not brazilian, so, if i write in portugues it'll be with several errors! I have found that Livraria Cultura have this maps from Paizo.

Hey, the DungeonsLinx looks amazing!