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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sugarman" data-source="post: 4026569" data-attributes="member: 59768">I've seen the fancy $1000 setups people use to project dungeons on the table for their characters to explore.   You reveal only what they see using 'layers' as 'fog' through your laptop.Looks like fun if you have the dough and the tech savvy, but what about a cheaper solution?Drawing the rooms and having PCs keep a map to me are considered a distraction that takes away from the actual action of the game.  So I'd like to find a way to eliminate that downtime and try projection.  But in a cheap way.I see that ordinary old school overheads (like your teacher used) are available for less money than a core book and now come so small they weigh less than 10 lbs.  Hang it right above your table.  All you'd have to do is print the dungeon you want to use on a transparent sheet and use post it notes or something to block areas the PCs havent seen.  Just peel em away as they enter areas and bang, NO MORE MAP DRAWING!  It's cheap, low-tech, visually appealing AND time saving.The only thing is, I never saw or heard of anyone using this technique for indoor exploration.  Has anyone here used overhead projectors or know of any drawbacks to using one?  Please let me know if you know anything about this before I spend the $50 it takes to dive into this.  Thanks!</blockquote>