How To: Create your own Tact-tiles

[Catavarie]

Have you been wanting a set of those spiffy looking Tact-tiles, but been unable to afford them, been unable to find someone willing to part with their's? Why not build your own? Recently I fabricated some tactical tiles of my own, since the official Tact-Tiles are not being produced at this time and I decided to share with anyone interested how I did it. The instructions and materials list can be found here.

 

[Scribble]

Have you been wanting a set of those spiffy looking Tact-tiles, but been unable to afford them, been unable to find someone willing to part with their's? Why not build your own? Recently I fabricated some tactical tiles of my own, since the official Tact-Tiles are not being produced at this time and I decided to share with anyone interested how I did it. The instructions and materials list can be found here.

Nice.

I'm always a fan of do it yourself type projects.

Thumbs up from me.

 

[Vorput]

Cool... and my DM has a birthday coming up... hmm...

 

[Scribble]

If you wanted to add on, I guess you could make a few with things like rivers, chasms, bridges, and other obstacles/features already marked on them... (But then again that would probably detract from the ease of use of tact-tiles...)

 

[Pbartender]

Have you been wanting a set of those spiffy looking Tact-tiles, but been unable to afford them, been unable to find someone willing to part with their's? Why not build your own? Recently I fabricated some tactical tiles of my own, since the official Tact-Tiles are not being produced at this time and I decided to share with anyone interested how I did it. The instructions and materials list can be found here.

Very Nice. For the record, where's the best places to find foam board and self-adhesive laminate?

 

[Catavarie]

Very Nice. For the record, where's the best places to find foam board and self-adhesive laminate?

I did all of my shopping at my local Wal-mart, foam board in the school/office supply section and laminate in the Kitchen area with the shelf paper is kept.

 

[Catavarie]

I'm thinking my next project will be cheaply made minis to go along with the tact tiles. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[TGryph]

Cheap Mini's? Hit the local Dollar Stores, if your region of the world has them. Many times I have seen and picked up bags of knights or other figures that would work well in my games. I also bought several plastic Dragon miniatures (again a buck apiece) that are quite close in scale to the aforementioned knights. As a bonus, I also grabbed several bags full of rubber snakes, frogs, lizards, insects, and other creepy-crawlies that work very well as giant versions of these vermin.

TGryph

President
Charlotte Chapter
Cheap Bastards Club

 

[Pbartender]

I'm thinking my next project will be cheaply made minis to go along with the tact tiles. Anyone have any suggestions?

I often use Dollar Store chess sets for counters... for $5 you get 160 counters in two different colors and 6 unique, but generic shapes. That's makes it possible to have up to 12 different types of creatures in a combat, and half of them (80, in this case) are either black or white pawns, which are great for hordes of mooks.

It's not a perfect solution, but it's cheap and great for traveling or for putting scads of opponents on the field.

 

[irdeggman]

Nickles with those circle dots on them. Put in numbers and with the common 3 colors in a package - there is a veritable hoard of "markers".