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<blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 6055717" data-attributes="member: 150">Years ago, before we started using projectors and stuff, we had a battle scene that was going to take place in a massive ice cavern that was the lair of a dragon (an adventure from Dungeon that was awesome, but I don't remember the name of it). My solution to the map problem was to adjust the scale, not try to fit more on the paper.&nbsp; I went to a industrial/construction recycling yard here and bought myself a hunk of sheet metal -- something that would be magnetically active. I hand drew the map at 1/4 scale (so each 1&quot; represented 20 feet).For minis, I bought a package of business card magnets. I put colored paper on the magnets (they come with peel and stick adhesive on one side to attach the magnet to a business card) and then cut them into 1/4&quot; squares (for PCs) or larger (for the dragon and it's minions). There was enough room on the top of the little bit of magnet to put a letter or symbol to mark which character it was -- which could further be differentiated with different colors.&nbsp; So, in the end, we were able to have the battle on a much smaller battle mat.&nbsp; The magnetic surface and tokens were really just enough to make sure the teeny tiny minis didn't move when anyone sitting near the table breathed.&nbsp; This allowed for some much more interesting combat on that scale -- having that much room made it possible to USE that much room.&nbsp; -rg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Radiating Gnome, post: 6055717, member: 150"] Years ago, before we started using projectors and stuff, we had a battle scene that was going to take place in a massive ice cavern that was the lair of a dragon (an adventure from Dungeon that was awesome, but I don't remember the name of it). My solution to the map problem was to adjust the scale, not try to fit more on the paper. I went to a industrial/construction recycling yard here and bought myself a hunk of sheet metal -- something that would be magnetically active. I hand drew the map at 1/4 scale (so each 1" represented 20 feet). For minis, I bought a package of business card magnets. I put colored paper on the magnets (they come with peel and stick adhesive on one side to attach the magnet to a business card) and then cut them into 1/4" squares (for PCs) or larger (for the dragon and it's minions). There was enough room on the top of the little bit of magnet to put a letter or symbol to mark which character it was -- which could further be differentiated with different colors. So, in the end, we were able to have the battle on a much smaller battle mat. The magnetic surface and tokens were really just enough to make sure the teeny tiny minis didn't move when anyone sitting near the table breathed. This allowed for some much more interesting combat on that scale -- having that much room made it possible to USE that much room. -rg [/QUOTE]

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