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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brottor Dankil" data-source="post: 2036919" data-attributes="member: 27953">You might get your money out of the molds but I'm not too sure about the tiles. You may want to mark on your homemade tiles with a red or yellow marker and make sure they won't stain.  The coating on Tact-Tiles does not stain, with dry-erase markers of course.  Typical whiteboards will stain when marked on with "loud" colors.  Leave the ink on overnight and see what happens.  If it doesn't stain, you're probably alright. Let us know what the edges of the sawed tiles look like.  Does the dry-erase run all the way out to the edge, or does the saw peel up the dry-erase at the edges somewhat? Also, you may want to let us know how much time it takes to make your tiles.   One big advantage of the interlocking feature is the ability to slide the surface.  This allows you to easily pick up tiles from one side of the board, slide the rest of the board down, and put clean tiles down where the party is going.  Also, when you draw from one tile to another, your tiles may want to pull apart and make drawing more difficult.  Interlocking prevents the pull apart effect.  Even with the small gap between Tact-Tiles, a narrow tip marker tends to try to ride into the gap.  Chisel tip markers work the best.  The grid lines need to be an odd color, so that when you mark on it with a marker you can clearly see the contrast.  Tact-Tiles have a kind of burnt orange gridline, so if you mark on a grid line with orange or brown you can still see the difference. Finally,  a 12 pack of Tact-Tiles makes a 30" x 40" surface (when arranged 3 x 4, about the same size as a mega mat) making a 150' x 200' battle field (assuming 1"=5' squarse), which 99% of the time will cover the entire battle field for a single encounter.  There is no need to have 32 squares, unless you want to pre-draw 4 adventures ahead of time.  And you probably won't want to lug around 32 squares.  Our group typically doesn't use up all 12 pre-drawn Tact-Tiles before the session ends (though we're slow, we BS a lot).   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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