SeattleGamer
First Post
Sorry, I just can't get excited about 6 tiles for $10.
If you want to create your own dungeons (complete with corridors and a wide variety of rooms) check out 0one (yes, that's a zero followed by the word one):
http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=287
They have several different 2D product lines:
Battlemaps have a top-down 3D look to them.
Skirmish Tiles are a bit simpler top-down without the 3D look.
Both product lines have a number of different bundles.
For Battlemaps (prices range from $6-6.50)
The Dungeon Rooms (5 different bundles) have 8-9 rooms each
The Dungeon Corridors (2 bundles) have 12-13 tiles each)
The Sewers bundle has 10 tiles
Note however there is a "Complete Corridors" set and a "Complete Dungeons" set which brings the price down to about $4 per bundle when purchased all together.
So for $28.70 you could have 25 corridors and a total of 44 different rooms. Yeah, you've got to print them out yourself and mount them to cardboard (I use illustration board myself) but you can make as many as you want. Far better (and ultimately cheaper) than paying $10 to get 6 tiles.
For Skirmish Tiles ($7.50 each):
There are three different bundles (two volumes of Dungeon Rooms and one called Fiendish Grounds). These bundles each give you a total of 30 corridors and rooms (mostly rooms). They also have several sets that cover castles (four different sets that handle each level of a castle, from ground, first, second and upper). I don't have the castle sets so cannot comment on them. There is a Complete Skirmish bundle for $35 that gets you all 7 sets, which brings the price down to $5 each.
But if you are interested in dungeon stuff, for $22.50 you would have 90 corridors and rooms, Yes, that's not a typo. 90 tiles. WOrks out to .25 cents each. Again, yes, you have to print these things and mount them yourself, but the variety is staggering, and even if the cost of printing and mounting came to another .75 cents per tile that would bring the cost up to $1 per tile.
The WotC tiles are $10 for 6 tiles, or $1.67 each. And you only get one of them. The Oone tiles you can print and make as many as you want.
Oh . . . if you want samples, check out the listings on RPGNow. Once you select one of the bundles, you will find a button that says Demo. CLick that and you will be shown one of the tiles. I believe all of their collections have a Demo button, so you can get a good look at about a dozen tiles this way.
I'm actually surprised that WotC would even get into this market. About the only crowd these will appeal to is the type that really doesn't like to make things themselves. I guess people who play with pre-painted figures and don't ever paint their own minis just wanna play games, and that's fine. No slam intended.
But anybody who is used to gaming ALSO being a "hobby" where you have to paint minis and make terrain won't find it a stretch to make their own tiles - and way cheaper too.
I've been a fan of 2D tiles since GW's Warhammer Quest. The tiles from Oone are at least one grade better in quality of the visuals, and the 2.5D stuff coming soon from WorldWorksGames looks to be another step up.
The stuff from SkeletonKey Games falls into a different category for me. I donj't mount those tiles for continual use. I devise a cavern or dungeon complex, print the tiles I need on good quality paper or medium cardstock, tape them together from behind, and fold or roll the whole thing up. I use those as maps that, once the adventure is completed, the map has served it's purpose.
And for those wo are wondering, I'm not a sock puppet either. Just a happy consumer of Oone, WWG and Skeletonkey Games products.
Steve
If you want to create your own dungeons (complete with corridors and a wide variety of rooms) check out 0one (yes, that's a zero followed by the word one):
http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=287
They have several different 2D product lines:
Battlemaps have a top-down 3D look to them.
Skirmish Tiles are a bit simpler top-down without the 3D look.
Both product lines have a number of different bundles.
For Battlemaps (prices range from $6-6.50)
The Dungeon Rooms (5 different bundles) have 8-9 rooms each
The Dungeon Corridors (2 bundles) have 12-13 tiles each)
The Sewers bundle has 10 tiles
Note however there is a "Complete Corridors" set and a "Complete Dungeons" set which brings the price down to about $4 per bundle when purchased all together.
So for $28.70 you could have 25 corridors and a total of 44 different rooms. Yeah, you've got to print them out yourself and mount them to cardboard (I use illustration board myself) but you can make as many as you want. Far better (and ultimately cheaper) than paying $10 to get 6 tiles.
For Skirmish Tiles ($7.50 each):
There are three different bundles (two volumes of Dungeon Rooms and one called Fiendish Grounds). These bundles each give you a total of 30 corridors and rooms (mostly rooms). They also have several sets that cover castles (four different sets that handle each level of a castle, from ground, first, second and upper). I don't have the castle sets so cannot comment on them. There is a Complete Skirmish bundle for $35 that gets you all 7 sets, which brings the price down to $5 each.
But if you are interested in dungeon stuff, for $22.50 you would have 90 corridors and rooms, Yes, that's not a typo. 90 tiles. WOrks out to .25 cents each. Again, yes, you have to print these things and mount them yourself, but the variety is staggering, and even if the cost of printing and mounting came to another .75 cents per tile that would bring the cost up to $1 per tile.
The WotC tiles are $10 for 6 tiles, or $1.67 each. And you only get one of them. The Oone tiles you can print and make as many as you want.
Oh . . . if you want samples, check out the listings on RPGNow. Once you select one of the bundles, you will find a button that says Demo. CLick that and you will be shown one of the tiles. I believe all of their collections have a Demo button, so you can get a good look at about a dozen tiles this way.
I'm actually surprised that WotC would even get into this market. About the only crowd these will appeal to is the type that really doesn't like to make things themselves. I guess people who play with pre-painted figures and don't ever paint their own minis just wanna play games, and that's fine. No slam intended.
But anybody who is used to gaming ALSO being a "hobby" where you have to paint minis and make terrain won't find it a stretch to make their own tiles - and way cheaper too.
I've been a fan of 2D tiles since GW's Warhammer Quest. The tiles from Oone are at least one grade better in quality of the visuals, and the 2.5D stuff coming soon from WorldWorksGames looks to be another step up.
The stuff from SkeletonKey Games falls into a different category for me. I donj't mount those tiles for continual use. I devise a cavern or dungeon complex, print the tiles I need on good quality paper or medium cardstock, tape them together from behind, and fold or roll the whole thing up. I use those as maps that, once the adventure is completed, the map has served it's purpose.
And for those wo are wondering, I'm not a sock puppet either. Just a happy consumer of Oone, WWG and Skeletonkey Games products.
Steve
